Of late a few words have jumped the synaptic breaches in my brain. They are not words that we are unfamiliar with, but they are words non-the less have struck cords recently in my psyche. Having less and less time on my hands I am finding more time making the research and having an application read them to me…lazy, yeah I know. But for me it covers more territory than simply reading.
Sociopath Personalities; yeah I have professional experience with them on a clinical level. I got the Sociopath and the psychopathic individuals confussed constantly…I never really thought of them as separate pathologies…but that is all subject to debate. For the purpose of this post I wish to avoid that and focus on the Sociopath.
Snooping around the internet in an effort to define the Sociopath for ones that are clear and concise was challenging, I found a bullet list that kinda sums up the general characteristic of the sociopath. It can be found here
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_kn ... _sociopathAnd it lists as follows:
· Glibness/Superficial Charm
· Manipulative and Conning
· Grandiose Sense of Self
· Pathological Lying
· Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
· Shallow Emotions
· Incapacity for Love
· Need for Stimulation
· Callousness/Lack of Empathy
· Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
· Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
· Irresponsibility/Unreliability
· Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
· Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
· Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
· Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
· Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
· Authoritarian
· Secretive
· Paranoid
· Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
· Conventional appearance
· Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
· Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
· Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
· Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
· Incapable of real human attachment to another
· Unable to feel remorse or guilt
· Narcissism, grandiosity (self-importance not based on achievements)
· May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
How interesting it is to think of former staff members and have this list in front of me. Each bullet speaks volumes!
The DSM-IV defines the Sociopath as:
Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths.
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the age of fifteen there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder
On first read the DSM-IV seems a bit restrictive, but then again…. we are not privy to the medical histories of our perpetrators. Yet we were subjected to their whims. And expected to do so willingly….which most of us did.
For years I looked at most if not all staff as pathetic pieces of shit, to be despised. I had little if any compassion for them. This is still true to this day. But the sociopathic personality has begun to explain more and more. The sociopath minions we are all familiar with answered to other “superior” sociopath's.who answered to still yet other sociopaths.
The term “7th Step Society also speaks volumes. Was the goal to create or to further establish a society of sociopaths? Didn't Hitler have a similar dream with his lil Brown shirts?…A perfect society of Straightlings seems hauntingly familiar. To me, it is becoming more and more clear we were under the sociopathic guidance…to what end, I Am not sure. But it seems clear to me that methodologies utilized in Straight Inc. at best were corrupt. But also consider information I found from a book on the “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China” by Robert Jay Lifton.
I had always heard of Korean Camps as the source of our treatment's . I could never find validation of that idea. However finding information of other methods proved most informative. An excerpt of the book can be found here
http://www.factnet.org/Purchase_Books/T ... talism.htm It’s a bit lengthy, but the comparison is uncanny.
Just few things to consider.
Namaste
woof