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We know that Priklopil was an extremely paranoid person and it is likely his paranoia would have extended to the rest of society.

It looks as if Priklopil was a social inadequate and a psychopath. He showed typical psychopathic behaviour in his consistent lying and cover stories. Like most social inadequates he probably harboured elaborate fantasies about himself. …

In Priklopil's case he pictured himself as a superman and coerced his victim to behave as if he was, forcing her to address him as "Master" and so completing the fantasy. …

With time, Kampusch seems to have persuaded her captor that their relationship had become legitimate, that they were "in" a relationship. On their few outings together he was obviously passing himself off as a guy with a young girlfriend. When she left, he could not face up to what he was - someone who snatched a child off the street and held her in captivity for years - and so killed himself. Between 20 and 30 per cent of murders are followed by suicide. But in this case Kampusch outwitted her captor; someone with a highly distorted criminal mind who had for eight years been the whole world to her. …

Dr James Thompson [°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Medicine], 'The Times'