Overall, Charles Manson displays traits that indicate both primary psychopathy as well as psychosis. He was a wildly successful cult leader and a master of manipulation. The crimes that he ordered to be committed based on his own psychotic delusions were able to be carried out due to his masterful use of psychopathic characteristics. Manson terrorized not only his victims but also the Manson Family members he claimed to care so much for. Through his childhood trauma, various types of aggression, manipulation as well as his primitive defense thought process, Manson displays many characteristics detailed throughout the quarter in our class.