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- Intimacy seeker – imagines fantasies about a relationship
- Incompetent suitors – seek sexual relationships are unattached males, social ineptness exhibits in odd behaviour.
- Rejected – can fluctuate between rejected and resentful and begins with the end of relationship. They initially want to reconcile and then can become resentful often fluctuate between the two. The stalking creates an opportunity for contact and becomes a substitute for the lost relationship
- Predator – preamble to a sexual attack – sadist that get gratification from intrusive observation and power
- Resentful – passed over for promotion or could be legitimate – discriminated against but feel they have no power or recourse. Desired by motivation for retribution and sustained by the feeling of power and control for once.
Source: Stalkers and their Victims, Mullen Pathe and Purcel