James H. Fallon

That's how he described himself.

His name is James Fallon, the neuroscientist.

Because I've been thinking more about that interpersonal Stockholm syndrome, interpersonal Stockholm syndrome.

You know, and it reminded me so much of my abuser.

And I think it really depends on what else is in place for this individual as they were growing up, as well as other models and other other structures of their environment.

So there was this researcher, his name is Dr. James Fallon, and he found that he actually has, quote unquote, a psychopathic brain, meaning that there were certain brain networks and brain structures that represented what we see in psychopathic samples versus non-psychopathic samples.

Then he scanned a bunch of his family members' brains, and a lot of them had these types of structures.

And, and it all was boring at bearing out in these imaging studies.

And conversely, we have also seen that when individuals might start to develop in a troubled way, if there is some kind of course correction in their environment, whether that's a social environment, academic environment or otherwise, that they may not grow up to make headlines in the same way and they may not grow up at all to be criminals.

And there was actually a whole set of research from a professor named James Fallon.

He is at UC Irvine.

And he was actually studying medicine.

That's a great way of saying it.

Um, and the other thing I wanted to mention, I hope I say this name right, but the James Fallon guy, um, under a YouTube channel, I think it's called Scavlon, um, is where I saw that video where he talked about the, um, the, uh, Stockholm syndrome, the interpersonal Stockholm syndrome, which I thought was a very interesting way of saying it.

It's a video that's from 11 years ago, and he's talking to a group of people, but I think the YouTube channel is called Scav long.

And it says neuroscientist, James Valen and self-proclaimed self-proclaimed psychopath, um, interview and.

Maybe, um, it all depends, but I think within my world, um, if somebody isn't overly maybe doting of me, or if somebody isn't making me feel special, I have a less tendency to care.

And I think that I was watching another one of these interviews with a James Fallon guy, the guy who described himself from his own brain scan as a psychopath.

He described himself as a pro-social psychopath.

He said something very interesting that reminds me a lot of growing up in trauma, actually, and growing up around an abuser, he was describing himself, and he said that the immediate people around him, and I might not be wording it exactly right, but he described it as they have a form of like a Stockholm Syndrome in a supportive family way.

That's what I didn't like.

But I wanted to be honest about it because I think that when we have complex PTSD, I think that psychopathy can develop i think if your abuser's psycho um and you go through long-term trauma and you live with a psycho like i think i i did um and i do think he's a psycho um you and you're abused right you're especially if you're physically abused like i was like you know whipping and all this stuff which was not spanking um it was anger it was somebody getting their anger out whenever they felt like it.

But whenever you have that happen, I think it does change your genetics, just like this neuroscientist said, this James Fallon guy.

And for me, you know, I'm not out acting violently.

And by the way, regarding the whole psychopathy thing, the neuro, I think it was a neuroscientist or something.

I can't remember his title, but he was a doctor named James Fallon.

That's the guy who wrote the book, The Psychopath Inside.

And he himself discovered that he has psychopathy.

There's lots of videos on YouTube from James Fallon.

There's even a TED Talk.

And so that's who that guy was that I was talking about.

That was because if he entered Victoria, he might only leave via the gallows.

Instead, the court heard testimony from Matthias Deverscove, who'd been the cook and steward on the Carl, along with sailor George Heath and the cabin boy James Fallon.

Mr Devescove and Mr Fallon had also been arrested for murder, and they were testifying in return for immunity.

Similarly, George Heath had confessed to his part in the outrage, and he was also saving his own skin.

What do you think, you know, it's more nurture or nature there? Because it's probably a question you get asked all the time.

I do and because I was asked that question quite often, I did a bit of research for my second book, Badness, and spoke to a neuroscientist, James Fallon, over in LA, I think he was.

Yeah, I've heard of him.

He was fortunate as a neuroscientist.