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To: Richnorth who wrote (77119)	9/21/2001 9:02:22 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116752

Psychopathia is a widely spread illness. Normally it does not express itself as a dangerous or criminal compulsion. It is normally manifested by a withdrawl from normal human social interaction and a narrowing of emotional reponsive range. Some forms of psychopathia are sexual frigidity, or impotence, "Don Jaun" syndrome, premature ejaculation, (psychopathia sexualis), wife beating, and passive aggressive behaviour. The latter is coupled with arbitrary, controlling and manipulative behaviour. The main symptoms are an inability to feel, or experience normal human emotions and interact normally. It may be accompanied by extreme obsession or obsessive-compulsive behaviour, or uncontrollable but not erratic behaviour. Because of the stigma and misuse of the terminology, many psychologists and psychiatrists do not use it popularly. Psychopaths are not often dangerous. It is thought that many psychopaths end up quite successful in society because their pathological detachment allows them to control others. ("control freak" or Hitler syndrome) This type often ends up as heads of departments and corporations, government or the military. The syndrome of psychopathia is often seen in the business world, where the desire to manipulate or other-direct obsessions is easiest realized. Unlike schizophrenics, psychopaths are highly organized and lead complex often byzantine lives of complexly self rationalized acts of control and hostile other-directed behaviour. Extreme pyschosis, often which has its roots in organic brain damage is manifested in rare cases as the criminal sociopathic type who may direct violence at people in a seemingly random fashion. This may not be deadly, but may involve terrorization, theft, robbery, assault and homicide. Psychopaths know that their behaviour is perceived a wrong, but they themselves do not feel remorse, and therefore it is not wrong in their world view. It is also probably true that they are incapable of modifying their behaviour. They are driven or compelled. The M'Naughten rules of criminal understanding of wrong is therefore not applicable to a psychopath who is criminal. Many psychopaths who had obviously no conscious ability to modify or control their actions have been executed in the US. The brains of many such criminal psychopaths, posthumously, examined, were found to be very high in metal content and often it was found that they had worked in places where they were exposed to abnormal amounts of chemicals or metal vapours. This abnormal metal uptake could have been caused by early damage to neural centres which allowed this effect in normal environments. Much criminal behaviour is psychopathic, and may be treatable on that basis, once a better understanding of the processes and pathology is reached by internment authorities. This has been given ample opportunity for the past 70 years or more, but a rejection of modern psychology by legislators, whose profession does not depend on "allaying blame", affords little hope that this progressive and less costly methodology will come to pass. It has often been suggested that a legislature with a one-profession membership is dangerous and unbalanced. In the US we have lawyers, in Muslim countries they have priests. Whichever is worst is a matter of conjecture. In and of itself, it is the largest collection of the most potentially dangerous psychopaths in existence. That they normally cannot act in concert with others and only act for "personal" reasons or complexed motivation, self-admittedly beyond their rational control, (It is in the hands of god, etc..), mitigates this effect to an extent. 300 co-operating psychopaths would be frightening indeed. Dangerous Psychopaths can be controlled at the moment of their anti-social actions by a firm, detached and authoritative manner, that induces confusion and uncertainty in the threatening person. If their plans go wrong, the psychopath is unable to adapt as quickly as people who can make plans on the fly. To project this attitude that can make the psychopaths "break down", requires a very cool head, good projection of being in control and a realization, and opportunistic exploitation of the weakness of their mental state. Sudden and rapid changes of perception of situations could cause the unbalancing of such individuals. This is evinced by the sudden change of such persons when arrested or confronted with evidence. They rapidly confess, become helpless and filled with terror. In order to reach this state they have to feel that they have lost control. This may be difficult to achieve if they are allowed to believe they have any kind of advantage. If we were to characterize the hijackers as psychopaths, then if the pilots were to lock the cabin doors it would elicit a breakdown in their abilities and leave them vulnerable. Change the rules in psychotics of this nature and they are lost. This is why a limp protestor does not get beaten while a resistant one does. The beating controller is acting out psychopathic rage, and seeks reaction to get at his own emotions. Religious and pseudo-religious, i.e. "spirit world" zealotry, as part of dangerous pscyhopathic behaviour, is common. EC<:-}