Mazur Oleg Anatolievich

 

Sociopathy (sociopathic disorder) is a mental illness characterized by a disturbance in a person’s thinking and behavior, leading to a systematic violation of social norms.

This mental pathology is characterized by the loss of conscience, nravstvennorality, and empathy for other people. Sociopaths do not respect the rights and feelings of others, manipulate them for their own benefit, and do not feel guilt or responsibility for their actions. The disease leads to serious problems in the personal, professional, and social relationships of people, organizations, states, and nations with whom sociopaths interact. Sociopaths constantly violate laws because they feel uncomfortable with any attempt by others to limit their arbitrariness. They have good social camouflage, using the mental modesty and social cowardice of citizens for their dominance in regulating the distribution of resources and benefits.

Diagnostic criteria for the condition of sociopaths, explained by the loss of conscience, nravstvennorality and empathy for others:

a) communication sphere defect: affectivity, excitability, loss of control over the desire for consumption, entertainment and dominance;

b) the chronic nature of an antinravstvennoral style of behavior, manifested in the desire to harm other people in order to maintain one’s own tyranny, dominance, unbridled consumption, entertainment, and social parasitism;

c) an antinravstvennoral style of behavior, disguised from others, manifests itself in the form of intrigues, conspiracies to cause harm and violate the laws and nravstvennorality of society, inciting mutual hatred and pitting people against each other in social situations;

d) the above-mentioned manifestations always arise in childhood or adolescence as induced states caused by imitation of specific sociopaths in the family, educational and professional environments;

d) sociopathic disorder results in significant harm to all individuals and organizations that encounter sociopaths;

e) the disorder is accompanied by a significant deterioration in the spiritual and material condition of persons who have entered into a relationship with a sociopath, deprofessionalization, and stupefaction of specialists; it is expressed in the imitation of professional activity, loss of a sense of duty and personal responsibility to society and the state.

To make a diagnosis, at least three criteria must be determined:

G1. An indication that the characteristic and constant types of internal experiences and behavior of the individual as a whole deviate significantly from the nravstvennoral norm specified by nravstvennoral rule III-C: the individual causes harm to others (-C2) and to the environment (-C3). Such a deviation must be manifested in more than one of the following areas:

1) in the cognitive sphere, there is a negative way of thinking about the people around and the environment, hatred of other people and fear of them, compensation for this fear through manipulation, seizure of power, resources, money, with the aim of depriving others of the opportunity to resist the tyranny of sociopaths;

2) in various situations (secret conspiracies, intrigues) negative emotions of sociopaths are manifested: anger, hatred, envy, irritation, remorse of greed towards others;

3) there is no control over drives and satisfaction of basic needs for food, consumption, entertainment, dominance; there are attempts to seize power in the personal and public spheres;

4) relationships with others and the manner of resolving interpersonal situations are of the nature of exploitation, humiliation, robbery and other forms of causing social harm.

G2. Deviations of this kind appear all the more symptomatic if they are sophisticated in nature and disguised as socially important goals and popular slogans that cannot be reduced to individual situations.

G3. They have an adverse effect on the social environment.

Personality disorder is characterized by a gross discrepancy between behavior and prevailing social norms. At the same time, it is characterized by the presence of general diagnostic criteria for personality disorder on a number of points:

a) loss of conscience, heartless indifference to the feelings of others;

b) a gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social rules and responsibilities;

c) inability to maintain relationships in the absence of difficulties in their establishment, failure to comply with any agreements with people, organizations, society and the state;

d) extremely low ability to withstand frustration (a mental state caused by failure to satisfy needs), as well as a low threshold for the discharge of aggression, including violence;

d) inability to experience guilt and to benefit from life experience, including such forms of it as punishment;

e) a tendency to blame others for everything and everywhere and to put forward plausible explanations for one’s destructive behavior, leading to conflict with society, the state, and the laws (“everyone betrayed me,” “deceived me,” “set me up,” and other similar justifications);

g) the presence of constant irritability, bitterness, conflict;

c) disruption of behavioral norms in childhood and adolescence, subsequent difficulties in learning and superficiality of knowledge, lack of professional skills, compensated by verbosity with the use of unusual words and terms reflecting amateurism;

i) the sociopath's disregard for ethical norms and rules, usually explained by the fact that society and the state have allegedly caused him harm and now he is thus free to choose any means and methods to achieve his goals. In this case, the choice of means and methods is of a criminal, antinravstvennoral nature.

 

Technology of prevention of sociopathy

 

To prevent sociopathy, the technology of forming teams at all levels of state administration and public self-government is used. In the team, sociopathic manifestations are minimized.

A collective is a social group in which a nravstvennoral atmosphere has been formed, characterized by the following features:

internal unity of ideas, goals, objectives;

joint mode of activity;

mutual assistance and support for each other according to the principle of “one for all and all for one”;

self-government, where each member of the team plays the role of an executor when solving one problem, and a leader when solving another problem;

the opportunity for each member of the team to gain authority in the form of general recognition of social and professional suitability for the position or role held;

friendship, calmness and confidence in the future of each member of the collective;

constructive behavior of collective members, ensuring their mental and physical health;

a sense of pride in belonging to a friendship, calmness and confidence in the future of each member of the collective;

joint discussion and adoption of management decisions.

Collective (educational, labor, service, professional, managerial, business and others) are formed by the heads of state authorities and public self-government in all spheres of life of society and the state.

Regulation of collective relations is carried out in accordance with the principles of voluntariness, equality of rights and obligations, resolution of intra-collective issues through general discussion and assessment, joint decision-making, by mutual consent. The priority of nravstvennoral education and self-education of members of the collective, concern for their well-being and professional development, ensuring priority protection of the rights and interests of young and experienced members of the collective, veterans of labor and service are observed.

The collective has the right to discuss, evaluate and improve decisions aimed at fulfilling the tasks assigned to it. The rights of citizens in the team may be limited based on the decision of the head of the organization that formed the collective, only to the extent that this is necessary for the purpose of protecting the nravstvennorality, health, rights and legitimate interests of other teams and other citizens.

Prevention and suppression of the spread of destructive ideology is carried out in groups.

Signs of a destructive ideology:

selfish motives and aspirations;

priority of the material over the spiritual;

hedonism, parasitism andirresponsibility.

In educational, professional and management teams, measures are taken to develop in students, employees and managers the necessary socially important qualities for successful socialization and professional activity.

Socially important personal qualities, for the formation of which the heads of organizations with their teams and self-governing bodies of teams bear equal responsibility:

nravstvennoral thinking is a special attitude of thinking and behavior that allows one not to harm oneself, others, or the environment; it is formed with the help of other citizens and organizations that constantly correct a person’s behavior and self-esteem;

a sense of duty and personal responsibility for the task assigned;

family spirit – a sense of belonging to a strong family (a stable union between a man and a woman), pride in one’s family and ancestors, which is manifested in the ability not to harm one’s family members and to create for them, to preserve historical memory and the continuity of generations;

the priority of the spiritual over the material, expressed in the predominance of nravstvennoral ideas in regulating human behavior over material stimulation of this behavior;

conscience is a person’s ability to critically evaluate their actions, thoughts, desires, to recognize and experience their inconsistency with proper behavior;

justice is a human feeling that arises in response to the nravstvennoral behavior of other people, in which actions, thoughts and words are united and correspond to people’s ideas about proper and nravstvennoral behavior;

creative work is a human activity during which material and non-material goods are created for other people. It provides positive feedback when consuming the goods created;

honor – a person’s possession of a number of nravstvennoral and psychological qualities that are assessed by other people as qualities worthy of respect, forming the reputation of such a person; dishonor – the loss of such qualities, the destruction of a person’s reputation as a result of his antinravstvennoral actions;

healthy lifestyle, implementation of three provisions of the nravstvennoral rule of three C's:

do not harm yourself with thought, word, deed, and create for yourself with thought, word, deed;

do not harm other people with thought, word, deed, and create for other people with thought, word, deed;

do not harm the environment with thought, word, deed and create for the environment with thought, word, deed.

Persons holding leadership positions in the public authority system must have the following knowledge and skills to manage a collective:

personal example of nravstvennoral behavior and responsible attitude to the assigned task, priority of the spiritual over the material in the behavior of the leader;

the leader personally observes the nravstvennoral rule of the three Cs: do not harm yourself (C1), your neighbors (C2), or your environment (C3) by thought, word, or deed; create for yourself, your neighbors, and your environment by thought, word, and deed;

in managing subordinates, uses the discursive-evaluative method: a method of regulating social relations based on group expert and mass assessment when discussing socially significant decisions;

the team selects supporters of the idea of a nravstvennoral path in order to be united and invincible;

all decisions are submitted for general discussion and evaluation;

all members of the collective participate in the discussion, evaluation, joint adoption, implementation and control of the implementation of the decision taken;

the team regularly sums up the results of the implementation of decisions made;

a general assessment is given to each member of the team and management who took part in the implementation of the previously adopted decision;

new tasks are set, supported by all members of the collective;

The training and education of personnel, as well as their professional use, are carried out within the team and through the collective.

Technology of formation and provision of team activities:

formulation, discussion and general assessment by team members of ideas, goals and objectives of joint activities (educational, professional, managerial);

acceptance by all of the ideas, goals and objectives of joint activities;

training in joint (collective) action to achieve intended goals and solve set tasks;

the practice of mutual assistance and support for each other based on the principle of “one for all and all for one”;

self-management: each member of the team is assigned several roles of leader and performer of various tasks;

regular general (collective) assessment of each member for his social and professional compliance with the social or professional position he occupies;

holding events aimed at establishing friendly relations between collective members;

care for each member of the collective, so that there is confidence in the nravstvennoral present and future;

constructive behavior of collective members, ensuring their mental and physical health;

rewarding and encouraging collective members to create a sense of pride in belonging to a given collective;

joint discussion, evaluation, adoption and implementation of educational, professional, and management decisions.

 

 

Psychological and psychiatric support

public administration and public self-government

 

In order to protect state authorities and public self-government from the penetration of sociopaths, psychopaths and mentally modest individuals capable of acting on the basis of hedonistic or parasitic motives, psychological and psychiatric support for state administration and public self-government is provided.

Psychological and psychiatric support for public administration and public self-government consists of training relevant specialists who will be subsequently involved in identifying and preventing sociopathy, psychopathies, and mental modesty in government bodies and public self-government.

When selecting personnel for government bodies and public self-government, candidates must undergo diagnostics for sociopathy, psychopathy, and mental modesty.

When civil servants, representatives of public and private organizations, and public figures carry out their professional activities, measures are taken annually to diagnose their deprofessionalization and sociopathization. Based on the results of such measures, a personnel decision is made to rotate persons whose psyche is destroyed by sociopathic and psychopathic manifestations and burdened with mental modesty.

Diagnostics of deprofessionalization is carried out by experts possessing the relevant professional knowledge. Subjects who have discovered the main sign of deprofessionalization – amateurism, are sent for advanced training or a decision is made on rotation of personnel who do not correspond to the professional or social positions they hold.

Identification and removal of sociopaths, psychopaths, and mentally modest individuals from government bodies and public self-government is the main condition for ensuring global security and protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens. This procedure is called the "social filter".

Without social filtering of state authorities and public self-government bodies, cleansing from sociopaths, psychopaths, mentally modest persons, no development and normal, healthy future is possible. Leaders should remember that the main source of harm to society is always sociopaths, psychopaths, and persons with mental modesty. The personal safety of each leader of a state authority (division) and public self-government body depends on their timely removal.

Preventing the penetration of sociopaths, psychopaths and mentally modest individuals into all socially significant positions in society and the state, international and private organizations is the main way to prevent a lethal war.

In regulating social relations, the states of the world community apply the basic provisions of the new ethics: a person should not harm a person, all socially significant decisions are widely discussed and implemented jointly with citizens.

Insults to individuals, humiliation of human dignity, aggressive statements and calls for murder of people are unacceptable in public places and information resources. Demonstration of harm to a person by a person is unethical, antinravstvennoral. States around the world help citizens to become nravstvennoral so that such citizens can protect their Fatherland from the main threat: sociopaths, psychopaths and ACGs (administrative criminal groups) created with their participation.