Before big Dick Cheney was the presidential puppet-master, the Machiavellian monster, the water-boarding wizard, and the Patriot Act prince we know and fear today, he was nothing more than a slim, sweet, and admittedly dashing young man from Casper, Wyoming. Seeking insight into the psychological transformation of the secretive veep, lefty website truthout.org asked a retired psychotherapist and a professor to pore over the various Cheney biographies (and speak with biographers) to analyze and catalog psychologically telling moments in Cheney's young life. After the jump, the nuggets unearthed from Truthout's mind games ...