are controllers able to detect controllers?

[sam]

I would like to know if people who are controlling are able to detect others that are also controlling?

I have lots more questions and will come back later. I hope this forum gets busy soon. Not much happening.

Sam

[Kevin]

I would suggest it is the case.

If controlling behaviour can be identified objectively by a witness then its because that witness recognises the behaviour (as "controlling").
This implies that the witness must first have insight into what controlling behaviour comprises.

But I don't think the witness would be exempt from having a controlling personality themselves because they see that in another since people who are controlling often deny that negative quality in themselves.

How does a witness have the apparatus to recognise the behaviour?
1. they are enabled intuitively through experience/education to first spot it then have reliable empirical data on the accused to make some measure of it.
2. it comes intuitively - in which case it may have no name but that doesn't stop this 'property' being identified (mislabeled) or coming into conflict with another controller.
3. some other way.

Items clouding the issue though include
(i) the overall credibility of the witness, their motive.
(ii) if the accuser is projecting (people who bully others may claim to be being bullied)
(iii) misread the situation due to personal involvement and/or lack of material evidence substantiating the claim.