Eric Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development is a theory introduced in the 1950s by the psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. It built upon Freud’s theory of psychosexual development by drawing parallels in childhood stages while expanding it to include the influence of social dynamics as well as the extension of psychosocial development into adulthood.

It posits eight sequential stages of individual human development influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors throughout the lifespan. This bio-psychosocial approach has influenced several fields of study, including gerontology, personality development, identity formation, life cycle development, and more .

https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/erik-erikson

Each stage in Erikson's theory builds on the preceding stages and paves the way for following periods of development. In each stage, Erikson believed people experience a conflict (crisis) that serves as a turning point in development.

In Erikson's view, these conflicts are centered on either developing a psychological quality or failing to develop that quality. During these times, the potential for personal growth is high but so is the potential for failure.

If people successfully deal with the conflict, they emerge from the stage with psychological strengths that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. If they fail to deal effectively with these conflicts, they may not develop the essential skills needed for a strong sense of self.

https://michaelbacolas.com/psychosocial 

Michael Bacolas unresolved crisis: Trust vs. Mistrust 

The first stage of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development occurs between birth and 1 year of age and is the most fundamental stage in life. Because an infant is utterly dependent, developing trust is based on the dependability and quality of the child's caregivers.

At this point in development, the child is utterly dependent upon adult caregivers for everything they need to survive including food, love, warmth, safety, and nurturing. If a caregiver fails to provide adequate care and love, the child will come to feel that they cannot trust or depend upon the adults in their life.

https://www.verywellmind.com/trust-versus-mistrust-2795741

Michael Bacolas was born to Julie Bacolas and Michael Robertson in 1987. The couple were young parents in their early 20s, both working 70 hours a week in management positions in the culinary industry.

Michael Bacolas was in daycare settings for the first three years of his infancy and childhood, with limited contact with his mother and father, except at bedtime when his parents retrieved their son from childcare.

As a result, Michael did not receive the adequate level of parental attention of "love, warmth, safety, and nurturing"  by these young and immature working parents. Michael Bacolas' documented cognitive retardation in early childhood, as well as his mother's lack of empathy and narcissistic behavior patterns, retarded this child's psychosocial development in this critical stage.

Michael Bacolas did not resolve the psychosocial stage of development of Trust vs. Mistrust, which caused a domino effect of irresolution of the following crises all children face during the course of childhood and adolescence.

https://www.verywellmind.com/trust-versus-mistrust-2795741 

Michael  Bacolas unresolved crisis:  Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt 

The second stage of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development takes place during early childhood and is focused on children developing a greater sense of personal control. 

At this point in development, children are just starting to gain a little independence. They are starting to perform basic actions on their own and making simple decisions about what they prefer. By allowing kids to make choices and gain control, parents and caregivers can help children develop a sense of autonomy. 

The essential theme of this stage is that children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independence. 

If parents do not maintain a reassuring, confident attitude and do nonreinforced the child's efforts to master basic motor and cognitive skills, children may begin to feel shame; they may learn to doubt their abilities to manage the world on their own terms. Children who experience too much doubt att his stage will lack confidence in their own powers throughout life. 

https://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/erik/stage2.html

Michael Bacolas Jr was the first child to be identified with cognitive and developmental retardation.  Coupled with the unintentional parental neglect in his earlier unresolved stage of Trust vs. Mistrust, the child was unable to attain age appropriate independence, he had limited control over his physical skills and expression of independence due to his developmental disability, and directly as a result of this early childhood cognitive retardation, Michael was unable to resolve this critical developmental milestone. 

To exasperate his inability to resolve this crisis, Michael Bacolas had extreme language delay in early childhood, contributing to his inability to exert personal control and independence in his environment, leading to shame and doubt in his abilities. If a child cannot communicate properly with his caregivers and peers, he cannot exert the independence and control necessary to properly navigate this stage of psychosocial development.

Michael Bacolas did not resolve the psychosocial stage of Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, leading to an inability to resolve crises in latter stages of development, due to multiple factors. 

Michael Bacolas unresolved crisis:  Initiative vs. Guilt 

The third stage of psychosocial development takes place during the preschool years. At this point in psychosocial development, children begin to assert their power and control over the world through directing play and other social interactions.

Children who are successful at this stage feel capable and able to lead others. Those who fail to acquire these skills are left with a sense of guilt, self-doubt, and lack of initiative.  If the child is put in an environment where initiation is repressed through criticism and control, he/she will develop a sense of guilt. The trust and autonomy of previous stages develop into a desire to take initiative or to think of ideas and initiative action. 

Michael Bacolas Jr. failed to resolve the psychosocial crises of his earlier stages, of no fault of his own.  The child lacked the necessary developmental and cognitive skills necessary to navigate successfully through the Initiative vs. Guilt crisis.
Michael grew up in an environment that hamstrung his early childhood development, based in part on his documented cognitive retardation and severe language delays. This lead to a lifetime of guilt and shame and low self esteem issues that impacted subsequent psychosocial stages.

As a result, the child lacked the abilities to show initiative in academia, peer relationships, and responsibilities to his family as the oldest son.

Michael Robertson's life work was to develop the cognitive skills of his developmentally disabled children, which was the catalyst for his research on the acceleration of his children's cognitive development.

Michael Bacolas lacked intrinsic motivation to succeed in academics. He had no initiative to complete the cognitive interventions developed by his father for dendritic growth in brain cells, necessary to increase his intellectual capabilities. Michael Robertson was forced to tutor the child with these cognitive interventions, as his son lacked the drive, at no fault of his own, to push himself to remedy his neurological deficits.

The absence of initiative during this critical stage of development was also reflected in his academics at school and his participation in the services offered for the gifted and talented. Michael Robertson worked intensely to remedy the cognitive deficits with his developmentally challenged offspring, and the father was so successful with his interventions that three of his offspring advanced from cognitive retardation to intellectual giftedness.

As a result of test scores showing Michael Bacolas advanced to the 99th percentile in qualitative and quantitative reasoning, as reflected on the Cognitive Abilities Test and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (administered by the Washington School District in Phoenix, Arizona) Michael and his siblings were admitted to "Project Potential" for the gifted and talented (1991 - 1996 test results from Special Needs Programs at Manzanita Elementary School and the Washington School District will be produced upon request).  The children received special needs services for developmental delays, while simultaneously receiving services for the gifted and talented.

Michael Bacolas lacked any meaningful initiative to justify remaining in the program for the gifted and talented. Aside from his anemic grades in elementary school, the child barely remained enrolled in the program, as he maintained a consistent "D" average in his gifted classes. Conversely, his other two siblings excelled academically and maintained a consistent "A" average in the Project potential program. The school district allowed Michael to stay in the gifted program based on his IQ test scores, his progress from cognitive retardation to intellectual giftedness, and the intense lobbying by Michael Robertson to allow his son to continue in the program based on his developmental disability. The school district agreed to allow Michael to continue participating in the gifted program and concurred that failing the student from the program would have deleterious consequences to his self esteem.

Michael Bacolas had no friends in elementary school, outside the friends of his younger brother he associated with. The child lacked the initiative to form peer relationships in early childhood, which also effected his ability to form lasting contacts with other adolescents in his teen age years. It is believed the child's inability to identify with others in his age group was a contributing factor in the expression of pedophilia later in his childhood, adolescence, and on into adulthood.

After the divorce in 1998, Michael Robertson was forced to rely on his oldest son to help with the functioning of the family unit in a single parent household, just as a matter of birth order. Michael Bacolas was given that responsibility as the oldest child to monitor his siblings while the father worked and attended graduate school.
Michael Bacolas Jr. lacked any initiative to help with his family after his mother abandoned him and his family in 1998. The father had difficulties maintaining employment as Michael was mentally absent to monitor his siblings or enforce parenting standards or curfews. 

Children are expected to rebel and misbehave, especially in light of the maternal abandonment and trauma associated with the sexual assault of his youngest sister by his mother's boyfriend.  However, the lack of empathy by Michael Bacolas to the needs of the family caused extreme hardships that had a negative impact on all members of the family.

Michael Bacolas' lack of initiative to "stand up to the plate" and take responsibilities as the oldest child had disastrous outcomes for the family, the father's career, and his graduate school studies (and this lack of initiative had a negative impact on the quality of life and support the father was responsible to provide for all his children).

Between 1998 and 2002, the older boys were chronic shoplifters and burglars, causing countless interactions with law enforcement and security at retail establishments...too many to count. Michael supervised his younger brother burning down a neighbors home, throwing cats off houses, fighting with children and their parents, leaving his sisters unattended and in the care of neighbors, not preparing meals or  helping with chores  (until the father returned from work or graduate school late at night), and violating curfew at all times in his father's absence. 

In 2002, Michael Robertson was forced to withdraw from graduate school as a result of his son's failure to show initiative and properly monitor his younger brother, who severely vandalized a vacant home during the day, causing the family to be evicted from their home of six years and removing the neighborhood support network (who monitored the younger sisters while the father worked and attended graduate school, while the older brothers ran rampant).

According to Erik Erikson (1950),  "If the child is put in an environment where initiation is repressed through criticism and control, he/she will develop a sense of guilt."

The father was highly critical of his son's performance at school and with his family.
Michael Robertson employed authoritative parenting styles with is children prior to and after his divorce in 1998. Due to extreme deviant behaviors exhibited by his sons and the father's inability to enforce Adlearian-Dreikurian parenting, the father (out of necessity) was forced to employ authoritarian parenting styles and run the family like a group home and in accord to authoritarianism techniques employed by Michael Roberson's own father, a former Chief of Police.

https://yourparentingpartner.com/about-me/adlerian-model/

Angry as a parent over the fact that his career goals and graduate studies were hijacked by his eldest son's lack of initiative to work for the betterment of a single parent family, Michael Robertson disparaged his oldest son regularly. Michael Robertson held his oldest son to an extremely high standard, due to his son's intellectual giftedness. 

Although that was a deficit in his parenting, authoritarian parenting gained a level of compliance by Michael Jr. and his brother, allowing the father to actually be able to work and support the family. Michael Bacolas' behavioral health issues were too acute to allow his father to return to graduate school during his son's childhood, but the father did ultimately return to his original career and academic pursuits with his admission to law school in 2020.

Due to all these factors listed, Michael Bacolas did not successfully navigate through the psychosocial crisis of Initiative vs. Guilt, which impacted his ability to address developmental milestones in subsequent Eriksonian stages. 

Michael Bacolas arrested development & early infatuations with pedophilia 

Michael Bacolas inherited severe cognitive retardation from his mother, Julia Bacolas, as well as narcissistic personality traits. These cognitive deficits played a major role in the child's inability to successfully resolve the psychosocial crises of  Trust vs. Mistrust,  Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt,  and Initiative vs. Guilt. 

Exacerbating his arrested psychosocial development was the emotional detachment and lack of empathy from his maternal caregiving, his mother's neglect of her son and his siblings, and the trauma she exposed him to leading up to the parent's divorce.

Michael Robertson noticed at this point in his son's childhood development that he was showing symptoms of mania. Coming from the behavioral health industry, the father was very resistant to put his son on psychotropic medication (a failure of the father's parenting).  The father followed the school of thought that children were overmedicated in society and that alternative interventions should be employed in behavioral modification. This is one of the greatest failures of Michael Robertson's parenting of his older children.

Michael Jr. was placed on a restrictive diet of no caffeine, no soda, limited sugar intake with no candy, and concentrations of fruits and vegetables. Since the child never identified with his father, obviously he rebelled against this dietary program. To deepen the arrested development that was intensified through consistent mania, Michael Bacolas consumed over the counter stimulants, ginseng, and energy drinks...prohibited by his father, but done anyway out of spite and disrespect to his father's instruction and his own mental health needs.

The father was in denial the children needed psychiatric treatment, when in fact all the children required psychiatric interventions and medication management. Michael Robertson's failure to address these mental health concerns of his offspring created issues, not only for Michael Jr., but for the rest of the children, causing untreated developmental handicaps and the expression of severe mental illness with these children as adults.

During this period of late childhood, Michael Bacolas Jr. began a preoccupation with children much younger than his age group. It was believed he would "grow out of it" as 12 year old boys having sexual imagery and "friendships" with girls as young as eight years old would subside. It never subsided and the arrested development began a life long illness of pedophilia with Michael Bacolas that continues to this day. 

Michael Bacolas unresolved crisis:  Identity vs. Identity Confusion  

Michael Jr. was covertly a pedophile the rest of his childhood and into his adolescence. He hid that disorder very well in order to avoid shame and condemnation from his younger brother and father.

When his son was 18 years old, Michael Robertson and his son Christopher witnessed pedophilic behaviors toward an elementary age school girl, while at a family dinner at his employer's home (a Christian man who employed Michael Bacolas out of his home). Christopher brought attention to the "broom stick' incident and the father had a "talk" with is son about inappropriate behaviors toward children. Shortly thereafter, Michael Jr. came home angry because of a "talk" he had with his employer about the impropriety of sexual thoughts towards little girls. He was replaced and his employment ended out of that man's home afterwards,, as it was believed Michael's employer saw these pedophilic behaviors and needed to protect his own children from a perpetrator.

A year later, while preparing for Michael Bacolas' 19th birthday party, Michael Roberson heard his oldest son crying in his bedroom. Upon inquiry, Michael Jr.. admitted that his cousin (Elizabeth), a friend he had for a time and son of his former employer (Sam Jr.) and his younger brother (Christopher) had found child pornography in Michael Jr's bedroom. Michael was humiliated as the pictures that were found were of naked prepubescent girls, which they graffitied with words such as chomo, pervert, pedophile, etc.

Michael Robertson recognized the crisis at hand, knew that all the party goers at the birthday party would have been told of the pornography, which would have had deleterious effects for the young man's self esteem and reputation with his peers. Later is was learned that all his sons acquaintances already knew Michael Jr. "liked little girls", which is another reason he had very few friends. The acquaintances the adolescent did associate with was predominantly his little brother's friends and peers.
The father had to act swift and fast, as the birthday party was an hour before party goers were to arrive. 

Michael Robertson, a retired counselor at this time, as acutely aware that is oldest son was still in the psychosocial stage of Erik Erikson's development, referred to as Identity vs. Confusion. Although there is no known cure for pedophilia in men, the father hoped that Michael Jr.'s personality was not foreclosed as a pedophile, and that his son was merely in a state of identity confusion.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lifespandevelopment/chapter/erikson-identity-vs-role-confusion/

Michael Sr. contacted his personal assistant at the business he owned at the time, who called a 20 year old girl that was known by the father and his staff. That evening, Michael Jr. had relations with an adult woman and all the party goers celebrated the fact that the boy was "normal." Later Michael Robertson was criticized by his son as an example of "bad parenting" for the hook up with an adult female, but in retrospect, any father would have matched their 19 year old son with an adult woman upon learning of a preoccupation with pedophilia.

After the father's intervention at the birthday party, his son began dating adult women and it was believed the pedophilia was a phase the young man was going through.
Unfortunately, this did not cure his son of this disorder or put him on the right psychosexual path, as later in his early adulthood, his wife, Leandra Bacolas, found child pornography on his computer countless times. 

In the beginning of Leandra Stenbak's discoveries of the pedophilia, the younger son (Christopher) took the blame for the prepubescent imagery on the computer browser and files, but subsequent discoveries by Leandra Bacolas outed her new husband as the pedophile everyone knew Michael Jr. to be.

https://michaelbacolas.com/michael-bacolas-jr/f/leandra-bacolas-a-hard-working-single-mother-of-2

Michael Jr. was so addicted to child pornography that he was using his wife's laptop to view this inappropriate imagery, another marker of a narcissistic personality.

Michael Bacolas promised his father, wife, and brother that he would begin counseling and get psychiatric treatment to deal with his pedophilia, but that never occurred to his father's knowledge, nor was he put on aversion medications to treat those symptoms. Another failure in parenting was Michael Robertson's absorption in his new family with his second marriage and the demands of his business, so the father did not follow up on treatment for this disorder.

The pedophilia was a constant source of contention in Michael Jr.'s marriage with Leandra May Stenbak, it was a repeated theme of behavior and he was continuously being caught by his wife with these materials. Subsequently, Leandra Bacolas divorced Michael Jr., changed her name back to Leandra Stenbak and took their two common daughters with her, assumed to protect her young daughters from a known pedophile with narcissistic personality traits. 

Michael Robertson reflects on the trials and tribulations of Leandra Stenbak marriage to Michael Bacolas Jr...."I have a great deal of respect for Leandra to stand up for the safety of her children. Leandra Stenbak is a successful massage therapist and is now a single parent. I have nothing but praise and admiration for that courageous young woman!"

 Sigmund Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous areas. An erogenous zone is characterized as an area of the body that is particularly sensitive to stimulation.

https://www.healthline.com/health/psychosexual-stages

During the five psychosexual stages, which are the oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital stages, the erogenous zone associated with each stage serves as a source of pleasure.

The psychosexual energy, or libido, was described as the driving force behind behavior.

Psychoanalytic theory suggested that personality is mostly established by the age of five. Early experiences play a large role in personality development and continue to influence behavior later in life.

Each stage of development is marked by conflicts that can help build growth or stifle development, depending upon how they are resolved. If these psychosexual stages are completed successfully, a healthy personality is the result.

If certain issues are not resolved at the appropriate stage, fixations can occur. A fixation is a persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage. Until this conflict is resolved, the individual will remain "stuck" in this stage and their personality development arrested.

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/what-is-fixation-psychology-definition-and-the-evolution-of-perspectives/ 

Castration Anxiety Defined 

Castration anxiety is a psychoanalytic concept introduced by Sigmund Freud to describe a boy’s fear of loss of or damage to the genital organ as punishment for incestuous wishes toward the mother and murderous fantasies toward the rival father. The anxiety is validated by the boy’s discovery of the anatomical difference between the sexes. 

Castration anxiety was first mentioned by Freud  (1909) in connection with the Oedipus complex and his discovery of the sexual theories of children, as in the case of Little Hans, a 5-year-old boy with a phobia that he would be bitten by a horse. Freud (1917) indicated that castration is not merely a boy’s fantasy, but is intensified by environmental factors such as parents or nannies threatening to cut off his penis or offending hand at the time of his early masturbation.

There is an assumption that the Oedipus complex is resolved when the young boy identifies with his father and gives up the notion that he may become intimate with his mother. There are many studies that look at the effects of the absence of the father on the child's development. However, there are no studies that determine this resolution if the father is unavailable to them. Mary Leichty, of Michigan State University, hypothesized then, "that if the father is not available to play his role at this time (during the development of the Oedipus complex), there will be inadequate resolution of the conflict."

This hypothesis suggests that the young boy could potentially be left in a vulnerable stage where he still believes that becoming intimate with his mother is an option.
The young boy, in Freud's belief, would suffer from an underdeveloped superego and would essentially make for a less moral human being.

https://www.britannica.com/science/superego

He believed that these mechanisms would lead to partner preferences matching the same-sex parent. Freud also believed that failing to successfully resolve the Oedipus or Electra complex could lead to a host of "problems" in adulthood, like neurosis, pedophilia,

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3812437 

Michael Bacolas castration anxiety & fixation with pedophilia 

Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex was based on the belief that young children experienced an unconscious desire for their opposite-sex parent. It was considered a necessary part of the phallic stage of psychosexual development (between three to five years of age), and Freud believed it could lead to pedophilia if not resolved in time. The Oedipus complex was taken as the ‘physical reproduction of patriarchy’, and as leading to the different sexual roles in our society today (Yadav, 2018).

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/june-2018/freud-and-penis-envy-failure-courage

Michael Bacolas was born with cognitive impairments and developmental retardation, coupled with severe language delays. As a child he failed, of no fault of his own, to resolve the developmental crises in his psychosocial development. These factors, along with an extremely psychologically unhealthy relationship with his mother (a hereditary conveyer of these mental deficits and author of the environment necessary for the expression of these genetic traits of severe mental illness) led to an unresolved Oedipus complex and psychosexual fixations that contributed to the expression of his pedophilia in Michael's adulthood. The pedophelia became a constant source of conflict with his wife, Leandra Stenbak, who eventually divorced Michael Bacolas and left with her two daughters.

https://michaelbacolas.com/michael-bacolas-jr/f/dcs-lisa-millett-joelle-higby-expose-family-to-pedophile

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/722300/ 

Michael Bacolas unresolved Oedipus Complex   

Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex was based on the belief that young children experienced an unconscious desire for their opposite-sex parent. It was considered a necessary part of the phallic stage of psychosexual development (between three to five years of age), and Freud believed it could lead to pedophilia if not resolved in time. The Oedipus complex was taken as the ‘physical reproduction of patriarchy’, and as leading to the different sexual roles in our society today (Yadav, 2018). 

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/june-2018/freud-and-penis-envy-failure-courage 

Michael's Bacolas' retarded cognitive, developmental, language, and psychosocial development laid the groundwork for arrested development in his psychosexual development as well. The relationship with his mother, Julie Bacolas, created a psychosexual relationship and aversive environment necessary for the potential for this genotype to become realized.

https://michaelbacolas.com/psychosexual

Julia Bacolas has a narcissistic personality disorder, a lifetime of crystal meth amphetamine addiction, participated in a family unit with her husband and offspring that she did not want, neglected her children and exposed them to abuse, and throughout the marriage, disparaged Michaël Robertson openly in front of the children due to these aforementioned reasons and her narcissistic malicious envy.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/recovering-narcissist/2019/07/5-attitudes-including-malicious-envy-expose-malignant-narcissists-according-to-research#1

According to Sigmund Freud's psychosexual model, a child's unresolved Oedipus complex leads, according to the oedipal theory, to increased neuroticism, letting people experience more and stronger negative feelings, such as jealousy and envy as directly resulting from Oedipal complexes. If the complex is resolved and the child moves onto other stages of development, they will have healthy sexual relationships as an adult. If the complex is not resolved, problems will arise. A boy with an unresolved Oedipus complex may experience anger toward other boys, those that resemble the father. 

Michael Bacolas lacked the cognitive and social constructs as a child to resolve the issues with the Oedipus complex. His arrested development did not provide the child with self esteem constructs necessary to identify and bond with his father. As the oldest child, he was witnessed to, and modeled, the disparagement and disrespect his mother displayed toward his father, verbally and non verbally. Michael never identified with his father due to these issues and the environment his mother created during childhood. Consequently, Michael Jr. became fixated on pedophilia as a result of not resolving this necessary psychosexual stage of development, which later contributed to the hereditary expression of narcissism and constant conflict with his father into his adulthood, and a source of constant conflict with his wife, Leandra Stenbak.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332441449_The_Role_of_the_Oedipus_Complex_on_the_Perceived_Romantic_Security_of_Males 

Havelock Ellis was a British essayist and physician who first identified narcissism as a mental disorder (1898). It is one of the three dark triadic personality traits (the others being psychopathy, and Machiavellianism).

Narcissism is characterized by an inflated self-image and addiction to fantasy, by an unusual coolness and composure shaken only when the narcissistic confidence is threatened, and by the tendency to take others for granted or to exploit them. The disorder is named for the mythological figure Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection. According to Sigmund Freud, narcissism is a normal stage in child development, but it is considered a disorder when it occurs after puberty.

Pedophilia does represent a narcissistic object choice, since the pedophile sees the child as a mirror image of himself as a child. Narcissism results from the oedipal fixation, where the pedophile identifies with his mother and sees himself in the child. pedophiles are also considered to be weak and helpless individuals because their choice of children as sexual objects pose less resistance or create less anxiety than adult partners, thereby allowing pedophiles to avoid castration anxiety. In clinical practice, many pedophiles are found to suffer from a narcissistic character pathology, including psychopathic variants of narcissistic personality disorder. Sexual activity with prepubescent children can underpin the pedophile’s fragile self-esteem. 

https://www.peertechzpublications.com/articles/OJPCH-5-126.php 

Julia Bacolas provided the genes and environment for expression of narcissism 

Julia Bacolas conveyed the genetic disposition and created an early childhood environment for the expression of narcissism with Michael Bacolas Jr. The mother's empathetic detachment and apathy toward parenting coalesced with Michael's cognitive and developmental disabilities to produce a pedophilic adult, at no fault of his own. Michael Bacolas was a tragic victim of circumstance based on hereditary, developmental, and environmental factors.

His mother, a student of psychology, fostered non paternal identification with his father during his psychosexual development, leading to an unresolved Oedipus complex in Michael's childhood, causing pedophilia. Narcissist parents thrive on turning children against their non narcissist counterparts.  The innocent or targeted parent receives hostility and rejection from his or her children in this system. The psychological health of the children is used as arsenal in the narcissists twisted world. 

https://psychcentral.com/pro/recovery-expert/2016/06/children-with-narcissistic-parental-alienation-syndrome#1

Julie Bacolas abandoned Michael and his siblings during divorce proceedings while her boyfriend was being investigated for the sexual molestation of his little sister by the Glendale Police Department in 1998. Normally, families who experience such trauma heal and go on to create a semblance of a normal life. These events did not destroy the family unit, but the narcissistic personality spectrum exhibited by Michael Jr. and his siblings was the destructive force that did ultimately destroyed the family, and most likely destroyed his family and marriage with Leandra Stenbak.

https://michaelbacolas.com/julia-bacolas 

Michael Bacolas devoid of empathy and narcissistic maladaptive behaviors 

The narcissistic personality was expressed with Michael's addiction to pedophilia and lack of empathy towards his father's struggle as a single parent of a family of abuse survivors.

Deviant childhood behavior is expected with children of maternal neglect and abuse. In normal families, children rebel and go through periods of deviant behaviors as a part of growing up. The maladaptive behavior patterns expressed by Michael Jr. was so destructive in nature that it interfered with his father's abilities to work and support the family, as well as his ability to continue with graduate school for the economic benefit and prosperity of the family.

Michael refused to take the initiative as the eldest son to help manage and maintain a healthy family for him and his siblings. The adolescent was involved, participated in, and promoted maladaptive behaviors that included burning houses down in the neighborhood, throwing cats and animals off rooftops, continuous fighting with neighborhood children and their parents, shoplifting and burglaries on what seemed like a daily basis, and vandalism of a neighbors house which caused the family to be evicted from their home of six years.

For years, the father pleaded with Michael Bacolas and his brother to halt the maladaptive and antisocial behaviors as it interfered with his ability to work and support the family. As a narcissist, Michael Jr. lacked the empathy as a son to care about the needs of his father or family. The deviance continued unabated, and the father missed work excessively due to required disciplinary conferences at the elementary school, a continuous onslaught of interactions with law enforcement, and unanticipated departures from the father's workplace to retrieve Michael Jr. and his brother from security personnel at retail establishments for chronic theft and shoplifting. These are all traits of narcissistic personality disorder, which is the hallmark of criminal pedophiles: lack of remorse and empathy for others and towards one's family.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/exploring-levels-moral-development-among-sex-offenders

Michael Bacolas' behavior patterns was indicative of low moral development and character. The cognitive deficits from early childhood and his arrested psychosocial and psychosexual development lead to an arrest of his moral development, with an underdeveloped Freudian superego of an adolescent who did not advance past stage one of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development. Individuals lacking the physiological constructs in the brain responsible for empathy oftentimes have arrested moral development.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html

Michael Bacolas narcissistic lack of empathy and deficient moral development are markers of a pedophiliac personality and was reflected in his behaviors throughout his adolescence and early adulthood. These traits were evident upon his mother's return in 2009 and his acceptance of her malignant brainwashing and manipulations concerning her maternal abuse and abandonment, his burgeoning of a Stockholm Syndrome towards his mother after years of abuse and neglect (promulgated in part through non identification with his father and an unresolved Oedipus complex), his participation as a flying money for his narcissist mother's intent to rebuild her reputation with his siblings and family after years of estrangement, and his pandering of his 17 year old little sister for a sexual relationship (childhood survivor of childhood sexual abuse) to an adult man in his 30s in exchange for a handgun.

https://michaelbacolas.com/kohlberg-stages

Furthermore, Michael Robertson could not own or possess a firearm while parenting Michael Bacolas, due to his son's narcissistic rage, especially towards his own brother. It is normal in any family dynamic for siblings to fight. Malignant narcissists who have their ego's threatened revert to homicidal behavior to protect their delusional grandiosity and fragile self esteem (Elise, 2015).

https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2087/

Christoher Bacolas worried about his safety after fights with his older brother. Michael Jr., being a weak child and adolescent, would retaliate against his brother's physical dominance with knives, baseball bats, weapons, rocks, broomsticks, whatever blunt objects available to cause gross bodily harm (narcissistic lack of empathy and concern for one's own sibling). One notable fight between Michael Jr. and his younger brother ended with Christopher's arm almost severing, causing emergency care in the trauma unit at Phoenix Children's Hospital in 2005.

Individuals with a pathological degree of narcissism have a psychological disconnect between an unconscious sense of inadequacy and a conscious feeling of superiority. They think they are better than everyone else, but this belief is fragile. These individuals are more vulnerable to any events (interpersonal rejection, negative feedback, criticism) that might threaten their exaggerated view of themselves and, as a result, are more likely to react with anger and hostility to any perceived or real challenge to their ego.

According to  Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D (2019), personalities exhibiting narcissistic rage become angry or violent in situations we might predict given their constant need to protect themselves from any hint of criticism or rejection, i.e., in response to threats to their ego or self-esteem, typically when demands of entitlement, admiration and perceived authority were not met. 

Facing loss, the threat to his or her grandiose sense of self-worth is overwhelming and, without the motivation or the ability to handle these situations calmly, she/he may launch into an uncontrollable rage. At the moment, explosive narcissistic rage can be completely unprovoked and unprecedented. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201907/narcissism-rage-and-murder 

Michael Bacolas: The overt narcissist & covert narcissist pedophile 

Researcher and author Craig Malkin, PhD suggests that the term "covert" can be misleading. In his work he states that the term covert is often used to suggest that the covert narcissist is sneaky or that their strive for importance is not as significant as an overt (more extroverted) narcissist. In fact, he reports, the traits of the overt narcissist and the covert narcissist are the same. Both covert and overt narcissists navigate the world with a sense of self-importance and fantasizing about success and grandeur.

The covert narcissist will be much more likely to constantly seek reassurance about their talents, skills, and accomplishments, looking for others to feed that same need for self-importance.  The introverted, covert narcissist may have a more gentle approach to explain why something is your fault and they are not to blame. They might even pretend to be a victim of your behavior or engage in emotional abuse to put themselves in a position to receive reassurance and praise. 

In early adulthood, Michael and his siblings lived in their father's home. Christopher, his younger brother, reported extreme embarrassment when Michael Jr. met people in the community, as his older sibling would disparage his father to these new acquaintances. Michael Jr. bad mouthed his father to people he met, as a covert narcissist to obtain sympathy for his perceived character flaws (so their delusional beliefs of superiority is not challenged). 

People with covert narcissism appear to be modest, they believe that they are superior to other people. As a result, they avoid situations or tasks that challenge this sense of superiority. Michael's male persona communicates pedophilia (screams it), low self esteem, and feelings of inferiority (based on unresolved crises in psychosocial development). By projecting negative paternal relationship issues with people he met on first encounters, he employed a psychological defense mechanism to protect any challenges with other males on his covert narcissistic superiority: "If I'm not a man like you, it's my father's fault, don't punk me."

Covert narcissists can take joy in creating confusion for someone they are interacting with.  Remembering that they are always focused on staying elevated to maintain their sense of self-importance, it is easy to understand how a covert narcissist would find it difficult to compliment you. There is usually little regard for your talents or abilities—usually, the narcissist has no regard for these things at all.  Although the covert is more likely to appear emotionally accessible, it tends to be a performance and usually done with intent to exploit or eventually leave the person feeling small through disregard, blaming, or shaming.  The hallmark traits of narcissistic personality disorder is lack of empathy.

https://www.healthline.com/health/covert-narcissist

His father tried counseling Michael Jr. and attempted to employ cognitive behavioral techniques to remedy these host of issues. Michael Robertson's attempts at intervention was met with disrespect (unresolved Oedipus complex), disregard, disparagement, belittling the father's credentials and behavioral health background, denying his own character defects, and blaming his father for his issues.  Covert narcissists have a belief in their own superiority, and narcissists fixated in the psychosocial stage of development believe they are superior to their own fathers (Oedipus complex).

Covert narcissists abhor honesty, which is a threat they seek to discredit  They have contempt for responsibility, which they avoid and deflect onto others. These personalities are incapable of normal expressions of love and empathy, which they do not feel but use as a weapon against others who do.  They abhor accuracy, which threatens their self-protective distortions of reality, and are enemies of truth, which they fear more than anything and work continuously to deny, dismiss, defile, and deform.

https://narcissistfamilyfiles.com/2017/11/17/the-narcissists-disrespect-envy-and-contempt/

When the children were kidnapped from his father's care, Julie Bacolas stole his computer and all files representing years of the father's research on the children's cognitive development: Michael Robertson's masters thesis. 

Upon the children's return after the court granted the father custody, Michael Jr. and his brother told their father that the roommate had carried those files to Julie's car on the day of the kidnapping. This caused a fight with Michael Robertson and his best friend and animosity that lasted 23 years. In 2020, after a series of lies and narcissistic smears from a maternal menticide....a common trait of narcissists (lying), Michael Robertson finally believed his friend....the man was not a party to the theft of Michael Robertson's research and master's thesis.

Michael Bacolas Jr. and his brother maintained that lie for 23 years, having their father believe that his best friend had participated in the theft of his masters degree research, when it was the boys wo did the heavy lifting that day.  The boys had a close relationship with that man...he was good to the Bacolas children and treated them with respect and concern. To promulgate a lie about an empathetic "family member"  and maintain that lie for 23 years shows gross moral character, and is indicative of arrested childhood moral development and narcissistic personality disorder.

https://michaelbacolas.com/kohlberg-stages

The low moral character and lack of remorse are other traits Michael Bacolas Jr. exhibited, which is common with narcissists suffering from preoccupations with pedophilia (a sense of grandiosity, akin to delusional feelings of superiority).

Michael Jr. would ramble on to his father regarding delusional ideas and fantasies he believed real. The father, having an empirical mind, tried teaching his son to "quote sources"  and to think and rationalize using the scientific method, attempting to challenge the delusional and unrealistic thinking patterns and possibly help his son become a more normal thinker and respected. Those attempts were in vain as grandiosity and fantasy were already hard wired into Michael Bacolas' brain from birth, a chemistry of the brain, hereditary endowed from his mother, a hallmark trait  associated with his narcissism.

Narcists, especially one's in the pedophilic spectrum, use lies and gossip to damage the character of the non narcissist family member that fuels his narcissistic supply. Their goal is to run smear campaigns against the empath, in order to deflect their own character defects, so their delusional sense of superiority is not challenged.

"His lies are purposeful and directly about you and your character. Sometimes believable lies because of the portions of truth mixed in. The flaws that all people have. Or your insecurities. Not only does he make sure everyone knows these lies, he actually runs to them first to direct their view before you’re able to.Where there is a smear campaign, you trying to defend yourself and speak the truth already looks like lies. Everyone already believes that you do nothing but speak badly about this nice and charming guy, who’s done nothing wrong. It must all be you. That’s what he wants them to believe (Grice, 2021)."

https://jengrice.com/narcissists-turn-everyone-against-you-even-your-own-family/

Michael Jr. projected gossip and slander about his father at the onset of the menticide that was perpetrated by Julie Bacolas on her severely mentally ill children in 2009 (and continues to this day). Not just acquaintances, coworkers, employees at the father's place of business, neighbors, and literally people on the street...anyone Michael Bacolas would meet, he would project lies, falsehoods, and embellishment of the truth, in order to mitigate any defects people would see in Michael's persona (hiding behind a façade that he was an abused child to deflect his own pedophilia and insecurities of non maleness).

In 2016, Michael Robertson made contact with his long lost son, Jordan Alexi, in Anchorage, Alaska. Michael Jr. immediately began the disparagement and gossip to his reunited brother, as narcissists thrive on destroying all friendships and family relationships with the empath non narcissist. Michael Robertson does not have a relationship with his son, Jordan, after that smear campaign. 

Michael Jr. started dating, and eventually married, Leandra Bacolas (Leandra Stenbak). Michael Robertson did not want him dating the girl. Whatever the reason, it is not uncommon for the parents to not like a new girlfriend.  Most children, normal ones, would never tell a potential wife that his parents did not like her. Michael Bacolas did, because he's a narcissist, and seeks sympathy from everyone. Narcissists have an overwhelming need to turn everyone against the non narcissist empath, even if that means destroying future family relationships  with one's new wife. One of Michael Robertson's biggest regrets is that he did not have a relationship with his daughter in law, Leandra Bacolas (Leandra Stenbak). Michael Robertson has never met his granddaughters, children of Leandra May Stenbak, due to grandparent alienation by his narcissist son, Michael Bacolas.

Michael Robertson's parenting was over as Michael Jr. became an adult and identified with his mother and her malignant lifestyle and beliefs. One of the last conversations the father had with his son was regarding Michael Jr.'s ideas to write a book about his life. The father tried to explain that for a book to be written about one's life, something phenomenal and amazing needs to have happened or accomplished for people to want to read about another's life. 

Michael did not achieve any career, academic, relationship success in his life. Tragedies to people around him, but not to him. Nonetheless, Michael Bacolas' delusions of grandeur and the fantasy world he lived fed a delusional belief that he could write a Pulitzer winning novel about his life...a life of non fulfillment, non actualization, and of no particular consequence (delusions of grandeur).

The last correspondence his father received was a 20 page "rant" his son  sent priority mail, as grandiose and peculiar statements were always challenged by Michael Robertson as invalid when babbled by his son in person ("quote your sources"). Not wanting his narcissistic ideals of superiority challenged, Michael Jr. sent his father a rant in writing. Michael Robertson did not read the ravings of an arrested developed narcissist living in an alternate reality, nor was he motivated to do so. The father gave the document to his younger son, Christopher, to return as unread.

Questionable death of grandson at the hands of narcissists.

In 2007, Michael Bacolas approached is father laughing that his brother and girlfriend, wanted to pay him to assist in terminating a pregnancy.

This was confirmed by other family members and friends of the adolescent children at the time. The couple had approached friends in Phoenix who shared concern and shock they were trying to terminate the pregnancy by ill means.

Michael Robertson learned of a pregnancy with his youngest son and her girlfriend in 2007. He made plans to adopt the child at birth and raise the baby as his own, being the man's grandson. After attempts were made by the adolescents to terminate the unborn grandson of Michael Robertson, he counselled his son and her girlfriend and assured them they would be alright and not bogged down with the responsibility of raising an unwanted child. Michael Robertson wanted that child and loved the baby before it was even born.

On July 28, 2007, Michael Robertson's son and girlfriend entered his bedroom in the evening and disclosed there was "something wrong" and both adolescents had the look of guilt upon their demeanor. Michael Robertson knew what happened, but repressed the narcissistic abuse for the mental health of the adolescent children. They had done something to rupture the embryotic sack and the girl had broke her water. His grandson was 23 weeks in gestation when this event happened.

The girl's mother came to his home in Surprise, Arizona, and took her daughter to Phoenix Baptist Hospital. Being an immigrant family from Russia, they were not informed or had knowledge that Phoenix Baptist did not have a prenatal neo natal unit for premature child birth.

Michael Robertson was frantically trying to get the girl transferred to Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, which has one of the top neo natal units in the country. Phoenix Baptist would not authorize the transfer as there would have been a high risk that the girl would go into delivery during the transfer. Staff at Saint Joseph's directed the father, off the record, to put the girl in a car and drive her to their neo natal unit. The girl's mother objected.

On August 4, 2007, Nickolas Bacolas was born premature and died at birth.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/azcentral/name/nickolas-bacolas-obituary?pid=93286344

Michael Robertson paid for the funeral and conducted all ceremonies for his "baby"... his first grandchild, who died at childbirth, from his son, Christopher Bacolas, and girlfriend who were actively seeking to terminate  the pregnancy, in league with their brother, Michael Bacolas, to accomplish that goal.  

https://juliebacolas.com/christopher-bacolas

Michael Bacolas Jr.: Children & familes at risk in community 

Michael Robetson, this subject's father, was very aversive to put up the content of this website. He contacted Michael Jr.'s mother, sister, and family members explaining the necessity for his son to receive treatment for his lifelong preoccupation to pedophilia. The father is extremely concerned regarding the safety of his minor sons and the unfettered contact of an untreated pedophile.

There is no cure for pedophilia, but there are treatment options. The father has done extensive research on the subject matter in response to the fact that his family has been assaulted by perpetrators with this disease of the mind: Michael Robertson's niece was assaulted in Anchorage, Alaska by a pedophile in 1992; his youngest daughter was molested her mother's boyfriend, while in her mother's care in 1998; and, in 2009, the stepdaughter from Michael Robertson's second marriage was brutally raped while in the care of her biological father in Mesa, Arizona (Phillip Menting is serving a 35 year prison sentence in the state of Arizona for that crime). In a sick twist of fate, due to cognitive factors, narcissistic hereditary dispositions inherited from the mother, and environmental and developmental deficits present in his childhood, the father's oldest son, by all definitions of the word, is a pedophile.

Apparently one can be hit my lightning more than once, and in the assaults of pedophiles against Michael Robertson's family, lightning struck that man four times.

While Michael Robertson was out of the home in 2018, his two minor children were removed from from his second wife's care. An older daughter has custody of those children and Michael Bacolas Jr. has unfettered access. Lisa Millett of the Arizona Department of Child Safety was notified to restrict access of this known pedophile, but those warnings went ignored (email correspondence to Lisa Millett at DCS  of father's duty to report as a behavioral health provider will be shared upon request). 

Furthermore, Michael Bacolas Jr. has access to his own two minor daughters and families in the community associated with his employment at Valley Environmental Resources in Phoenix, Arizona. Michael Robertson would be negligent if a child is harmed as a result of inaction by DCS and  also by not reporting this pedophile to the community at large. 

Non negotiable terms for the removal of this website from the internet 

Michael Robertson is willing to remove this website from the internet, alerting the community of a known pedophile, in accordance of his duty to report, as outlined in  ARS §13-3620  and ignored by the Arizona Department of Child Safety, Lisa Millett case manager, and Joelle Higby, DCS Supervisor. The following terms are non negotiable and required to remove this content online:

1. Michael Bacolas Jr. will begin weekly psychiatric visits with a provider of his father's choosing to treat his pedophilia, and such treatment will be lifelong.

2. Michael Bacolas Jr. will immediately begin taking medication to treat his pedophilia, prescribed by the provider selected by his father, such as degarelix, with random urine analysis to validate compliance with the treatment plan.

3. Michael Bacolas Jr. is barred from ever seeing or having contact with Michael Robertson's minor children.

4. Michael Bacolas Jr. shall only have supervised contact with his own minor daughters, presently in the custody of his ex wife. Any overnight visits will be supervised by his sister, Amanda Bacolas, who is required to sleep with the minor children if overnight visits are appropriate.

5. Michael Bacolas Jr.'s employer shall have no contact with children of other employees and customers they serve in the community.

6. Michael Bacolas Jr.'s father shall monitor all devices used in the home and at his employment and will utilize a blacklist of websites that will be blocked with pedophilic content and imagery, as well as search terms barred seeking such content online.

7. Michael Bacolas Jr. will submit to random and unannounced inspections of his residence and computer and electronic storage devices for pedophilic content, with the support of local law enforcement as a standby for safety concerns.

8. Michael Bacolas Jr. will limit and avoid all contact in the community where he poses a risk to families and children.

9. Michael Bacolas Jr. will sign an binding agreement with his father outlining these requirements for the content of this website to be removed from the internet. These terms are non negotiable. 

The subject of this content may contact the author and his attorney will prepare documents for notary signature and filing.

Leandra Stenbak

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