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Prima della loro ricerca in psicopatia aziendale, Paul Babiak ed i suoi colleghi sollevarono numerose questioni in cerca di risposta. Domande rilevanti on the study of psychopathy that policy are as follows:
- How can a psychopath outshine the other candidates and become successful in politics?
- Why a psychopath wants to enter politics?
- How long a psychopath could operate successfully in such an environment?
(Image: The psychopathic politician, Benjamin Netanyahu)
Jim Kouri, who served at the National Drug Task Force, trained police and security officers in the United States, and is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Police Chiefs (Chiefs of Police), the answers the first question in an editorial in ' examiner.com :
Quite simply, most of the serial killer [psychopaths] and many political professionals have to imitate what they believe are appropriate responses to situations that face, such as sadness, empathy, sympathy, and other human responses to external stimuli. ... If psychopaths are violent will be able to assault, rape and murder without concern for legal, moral or social. This allows them to do what they want when they want. Ironically, these same traits exist in men and women who are attracted to high-profile positions of power in society, including political office.
Politics is a world where dog eats dog. Not only do politicians have to be relatively insensitive to manage attacks on their nature, must be able to send the wrong item immediately. Psychopaths to this kind of activity is easy, have no moral scruples when it comes to character assassination, empty promises, shameless self-promotion tactics heartless by any means justify the end. These qualities are the spearhead of them at the expense of their most honest (and often naive) counterparts.
Politics is slightly different than any other work of deception. In a Ponzi scheme, for example, the scam artists to "members of an identifiable group, whether religious, racial or age. Regardless of the fact that the trickster is a member of the target group and claims to represent the group. While the political psychopaths are instrumental in the rise of totalitarian political groups, they play an equally important role in seemingly democratic governments. Il loro uso di una maschera di partito è talmente comune che può facilmente essere chiamato il loro modus operandi primario.
Ma in primo luogo, perché uno psicopatico dovrebbe entrare in politica? Basta porsi la domanda “Chi è la persona più potente del mondo?” a cui molti risponderanno: 'Il Presidente'. Gli psicopatici cercano posizioni di potere e di influenza, e la politica offre pubblicità, prestigio, e altri incentivi. Fornisce inoltre le posizioni di autorità suprema sui militari, l'industria, e intere popolazioni. In un mondo dove gli psicopatici sono comprensibilmente visti come moralmente ripugnanti, spesso trovandosi a loro agio nel criminal world, the policy provides an opportunity to create new worlds, to be free from the ridiculous (to their minds) moral and legal standards of society.
A review of recent newspaper articles, regularly observe examples of corruption and fraud typical of psychopaths "white collar"
In what could be the biggest fraud in U.S. history, U.S. authorities have begun to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers about the misuse of 125 billion U.S. dollars in an effort weblog, diretto a ricostruire l'Iraq dopo la caduta di Saddam Hussein. L'esatta somma che è venuta a mancare non potrà mai essere calcolata, ma un rapporto del SIGIR (Ispettorato Generale Speciale degli USA per la ricostruzione dell'Iraq) suggerisce che può superare i 50 miliardi di dollari, facendone un furto ancora più grande del famigerato sistema Ponzi/Bernard Madoff. (Patrick Cockburn, “A 'fraud' bigger than Madoff”, The Independent , 16 feb. 2009)
Dipartimento della Difesa non possono giustificare il 25% dei fondi - 2,3 trilioni di dollari.
Il 10 settembre, il Segretario alla Difesa Donald Rumsfeld ... disse che i soldi wasted by the military poses a serious threat. ... "According to some estimates we can not monitor 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars in transactions," says Rumsfeld. ... Rumsfeld promised change but the next day - Sept. 11 - the world has changed and in a hurry to fund the war on terrorism and the war of the waste appears to have been forgotten. ("The War on Waste" ("War of the waste"), CBS , 29 January. 2002)
Israeli police reported the hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, with several counts of corruption in an investigation of corruption in a move that could lead alle dimissioni e ad un significativo rimpasto di governo. Lieberman, capo di un partito popolare di estrema destra, è sospettato di corruzione, frode, abuso di fiducia, riciclaggio di denaro e ostruzione della giustizia in un caso risalente a oltre nove anni fa. Se verrà condannato e trovato colpevole su tutti i punti dell'accusa rischia fino a 31 anni di carcere.
(Rory McCarthy, “la polizia israeliana raccomanda accuse di corruzione contro Avigdor Lieberman”, The Guardian , 2 agosto 2009)
(Image: Rod Blagojevich and Barack Obama)
In 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich came to the attention of mefdia similarly, with some commentators who speculated on his mental health. Blagojevich was placed on trial for attempting to auction the vacant Senate seat of newly elected President Obama. However, even before his impeachment, the signals were evident. In his profile on the governor of Chicago Magazine February 2008, David Bernstein Blogojevich portrayed as a narcissistic, arrogant, vindictive, charismatic, irresponsible, impulsive, unreliable, and aspirations presidential (as is typical!).
After interviewing more than 20 members of Blagojevich ("by the members present and previous administration of the governor and his staff to campaign for state legislators, Democratic donors and practitioners, scholars, experts, politicians and critics") Bernstein said that many "have recourse to the colorful four-letter words in describing the governor. The list of insults to the press including 'greedy', 'stupid', 'paranoid' and 'false'. "They described how attitudes showed dramatic even on trivial items such as stationery for the office," and alleged illegal hiring scandal political backlash, "no excuses for his delay meetings and even funerals, and a litany of policy failures and embarrassing situations.
According to Bernstein, the man who once boasted of his "testicular virility" standing alone against the offender if the station, "all the withering criticism, negative headlines , and together with the absence of votes for approval, should hurt like a kick in the groin. But even if it were disturbed, not by a show. In public, it seems easy-going, steadfast, even confident. Continuing to play around with big smiles, grinning. "
Imperturbabile sotto pressione, Blagojevich ovviamente mantiene la calma per situazioni più profittabili:
“Non riesce a controllarsi”, dice Miller. “L'ho sentito dire dal personale del suo staff”. Un insider democratico aggiunge: “Rod a volte esce dal suo ruolo per cercare la rissa, solo perché lui può. È come se lo pregustasse”. ... L'estate scorsa, il quotidiano Peoria Journal Star dichiarò che il suo governatore era “impazzito”. Privatamente, le poche persone che conoscono il governatore lo descrivono come un “sociopatico”, and insist that they are using hyperbole.
State Representative Joe Lyons, a fellow Chicago Democrat, told reporters that Blagojevich was a "madman" and a "neutral". "He shows absolutely no remorse," said Jack Franks, a representative of the democratic state. "I do not think he cares about no other feeling. Try to demonize people who disagree with him, has delusions of grandeur. "
(Picture: 'When Psycopaths rule')
called a "liar" and likened by lawmakers, after an accident to a "used car salesman", "in an unprecedented move, demanded that Blagojevich put its promises on paper in the so-called memorandum of understanding ". In fact, spent much of his time in office "to defend themselves against charges of ethical irregularities within his administration."
But despite rumors, insinuations and accusations outright, Blagojevich said - sometimes even shocked - that he did nothing wrong. Download the scandals on "a few bad apples who violated the rules" and who have cheated. " In short, Blagojevich shows all the characteristics of a political psychopath, also fairly obvious. And he certainly is not the only one. Just as the psychopaths 'more efficient' are those who manage to evade detection by living a life of success criminals, so the best political psychopath work so as to resist as long as possible.
Robert Hare, in his book Psychopath: Theory and Research (1970), as well as James Blair, Derek Mitchell, Karina Blair in their book, The Psychopath: Emotions and the Brain [Trad: "The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain "] (2005), we observe that negative environmental conditions such as low socioeconomic status, family abuse and poverty, along with a low IQ, are often associated with high scores of psychopathy, in particularly among those who engage in violent criminal behavior in a persistent manner.
These criminal psychopaths are often considered the worst of the worst in courts and prisons. However, these factors seem to influence only the expression of psychopathy. As Dr. Hare explained in the excellent documentary by Ian Walker, I, Psychopath, the already diagnosed psicopatico e sedicente guru narcisista Sam Vaknin, mentre gli psicopatici raccontano spesso di qualche trauma infantile che li ha resi quello che sono, in realtà essi provengono da qualsiasi tessuto sociale, buono o cattivo che sia. A proposito di psicopatici di successo come Vaknin, elgi dice, “Se siete brillanti e sapete come vestirvi bene; se avete, diciamo, il dono della parlantina e siete stati cresciuti in un contesto familiare benestante, [allora] non andrete in banca per rubare, entrerete in banca per fare il direttore ...”.
Difatti, Vaknin è il perfetto caso studio per il tipo di psicopatico più pericolosa per le istituzioni politiche, e quindi per intere nazioni. Meglio conosciuto as Internet-guru for his "malicious self-love," Vaknin was arrested in Israel in 1995 for fraud. The documentary follows Walker, Vaknin and Lidija (wife Vaknin's) intent to visit several European institutions to see if Vaknin is indeed a psychopath.
Vaknin ends with a score of 18 (out of 24) on the PCL-SV (Psychopathy Check-List Screening Version) 
developed by Dr. Hare, a score higher than most part of offenders in corrective facilities in the United States and the threshold for psychopathy. However, according to Walker, Vaknin, come molti dei cosiddetti psicopatici di successo ora studiati da Hare, Bakiak e altri, non è un “archetipo” dello psicopatico da libri di testo.
(Immagine: Sam Vaknin, diagnosticato come psicopatico)
Contrariamente alla popolazione carceraria, Vaknin non è mai stato fisicamente violento. Inoltre è stato sposato con la stessa donna per dieci anni, mentre la maggior parte degli psychopaths are seemingly incapable of such a 'commitment', preferring a series of reports in the short term. (The treatment of emotional towards her, however, is another matter). The most interesting thing is that he is particularly aware of his situation, and his insights are in agreement with what the experts are saying about him. For example, here is the exchange of words that Vaknin, with the utmost seriousness, he had with Walker:
Vaknin: "I like to present a facade of retiring from modest person. It gives people the impression that, deep down, I'ma be human being. "
Walker: " But you're human, you are not, perhaps? "
Vaknin: " I firmly believe that you should believe that, yes. ... [The] psychopath considers the people as instruments of gratification, such as disposable things. ... The majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are under water, and like an iceberg, are inert. They do nothing. I'm just there. They harass the spouse being without empathy, but without hitting her or kill her. It 's like to bullying between colleagues, but without burning the office. Are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like a poison than a knife, and they are more like a poison effect that long to cyanide.
After Walker subjected to a series of degrading insults (a fact regularly during shooting), and with Walker still visibly in shock, Vaknin, coldly, and with a disturbing look sadistic, described what was happening to him:
Vaknin: "Your body has been flooded at 'moment of adrenaline along with his on norepinephrine ... Now, quando questi pervadono nella circolazione sanguigna, il cervello reagisce. Si chiudono alcuni centri e se ne attivano altri. Questa in verità si chiama reazione da stress, o sindrome da stress. Poi, quando l'abuso recede, i livelli di adrenalina ricominciano a scendere. Calando, l'intero sistema va in caos. Ecco cosa fanno di solito i bulli, partono e poi si fermano, ripartono e poi si fermano ancora. Questo porta al massimo la sindrome da stress, e questo è il grande segreto del bullismo. Mai esagerare. piccole dosi. La vittima farà il resto. - Anche se stai ancora tremando adesso [ora molto meno] ... devo fare qualcosa in proposito".
Questo tipo di psicopatico consapevole is perhaps the most dangerous to humanity. When his instinctive impulse to dominate others is in addition to wanting to reach positions of power, he is free not only from the bonds of conscience by its nature, but is well above (even to become the architect) of the laws that are designed to protect normal human beings by pulses deviant, so clearly defined by the psychopathic mind. As president, political, military or principal place of business, a large number of people are literally at his mercy.
