Norman Bates Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Norman Bates? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Norman Bates from Psycho 1998 and what is the personality traits.
INTJ (XwX)
Norman Bates personality type is INTJ, not INTP.
– It was a faux pas to attempt to put a personality type on the character of Norman Bates. This character is an archetype of the dark side of the psyche, but it’s not an archetype for any one particular type of personality.
– The film does not demonize the character of Norman Bates, nor does it portray him as a “mad scientist”. The film actually implies that he’s a psychopath, but not a monster. Without getting into the scientific details, he’s something like a highly evolved person whose body controls his brain. He’s not a conventional mad scientist, in that he doesn’t have a lab and doesn’t perform experiments, but he’s very sophisticated and perceptive about human behavior and psychology.
– Norman Bates is not a sociopath. He’s a highly functional psychopath, which has been suggested by some sources to be a subtype of sociopath. At any rate, the film does not suggest that he’s a sociopath.
