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to regain their human right to live in a normal man’s system

are, however, of secondary importance to these people. There

are of course differences of opinion in this area, but they are

not likely to lead to overly violent conflict among persons who

see before them a goal worthy of sacrifice.

Those whose attitudes are more penetrating and balanced

see the original ideology as it was before its caricaturization by

the ponerization process, as the most practical basis for effect-

ing society’s aims. Certain modifications would endow this

ideology with a more mature form more in keeping with the

demands of present times; it could thereupon serve as the foun-

dation for a process of evolution, or rather transformation, into

an socio-economic system capable of adequate functioning.

The author’s convictions are somewhat different. Grave dif-

ficulties could be caused by outside pressure aiming at the in-

troduction of an economic system which has lost its historically

conditioned roots in such a country.

People who have long had to live in the strange world of

this divergence are therefore hard to understand for someone

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who has fortunately avoided that fate. Let us refrain from im-

posing imaginings upon them which are only meaningful

within the world of normal man’s governments; let us not pi-

geonhole them into any political doctrines which are often

quite unlike the reality they are familiar with. Let us welcome

them with feelings of human solidarity, reciprocal respect, and

a greater trust in their normal human nature and their reason.

CHAPTER VII

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

UNDER PATHOCRATIC RULE

If there were ever such a thing as a country with a commu-

nist structure as envisaged by Karl Marx, wherein the working

people’s leftist ideology would be the basis for government,

which, I believe, would be stern, but not bereft of healthy hu-

manistic thought, the contemporary social, bio-humanistic, and

medical sciences would be considered valuable and be appro-

priately developed and used for the good of the working peo-

ple. Psychological advice for youth and for persons with vari-

ous personal problems would naturally be the concern of the

authorities and of society as a whole. Seriously ill patients

would have the advantage of correspondingly skillful care.

However, quite the opposite is the case within a pathocratic

structure.

When I came to the West, I met people with leftist views

who unquestioningly believed that communist countries existed

in more or less the form expounded by American versions of

communist political doctrines. These persons were almost cer-

tain that psychology and psychiatry must enjoy freedom in

those countries referred to as communist, and that matters were

similar to what was mentioned above. When I contradicted

them, they refused to believe me and kept asking why, “why

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isn’t it like that?” What can politics have to do with psychiatry?

111

My attempts to explain what that other reality looks like met

with the difficulties we are already familiar with, although

some people had previously heard about the abuse of psychia-

try. However, such “whys” kept cropping up in conversation,

and remained unanswered.

The situation in these scientific areas, of social and curative

activities, and of the people occupied in these matters, can only

be comprehended once we have perceived the true nature of

pathocracy in the light of the ponerological approach.

Let us thus imagine something which is only possible in

theory, namely, that a country under pathocratic rule is inadver-

tently allowed to freely develop these sciences, enabling a

normal influx of scientific literature and contacts with scientists

in other countries. Psychology, psychopathology, and psychia-

try would flourish abundantly and produce outstanding repre-

sentatives.

What would the result be?

111 In 1950, the Russian Academy of Sciences determined everyone would

follow the theory of the Moscow professor Andrei Snezhnevsky, which held

that “anybody could suffer from ‘slowly progressing schizophrenia’. One

could suffer from it without knowing, but once Snezhnevsky or one of his

followers had ascertained that you were ill with it, you had to be locked up

and knocked down with sedatives immediately, or the disease would ‘pro-

gress’. ...dissidents are simply locked up in a psychiatric institution and said

to be insane.”

Up until his death in 1987 Snezhnevsky denied that his theory was being

abused by the Soviet regime. But his former assistants now admit, that he

knew “all too well” what was going on. The only problem is, that those assis-

tants still talk about it only on the sly. They work at the Moscow institutes

where the scientific successors of Snezhnevsky are still in charge. This clique

of about thirty or forty psychiatrists at the time controlled all the important

institutes for scientific research in Moscow and this is practically the same up

to now. The consequence of Snezhnevsky’s ideas, apart from the fact that

they were used as a means of repression , is that psychiatry in the former

Soviet Union “is confronted with a gap of about fifty years”. Western litera-

ture on psychiatry was forbidden in the Soviet Union, psychiatrists who stood

up against the political abuse of their science ended up behind bars or were

themselves declared to be “insidiously schizophrenic” . “A Mess in Psychia-

try”, an interview with Robert van Voren, General Secretary of Geneva Ini-

tiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on

August 9, 1997 [Editor’s note.]

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This accumulation of proper knowledge would, within a

very short time, enable the undertaking of investigations whose

meaning we already understand. Missing elements and insuffi-

ciently investigated questions would be complemented and

deepened by means of the appropriate detailed research. The

diagnosis of the pathocratic state of affairs would then be

elaborated within the first dozen or so years of the formation of

the pathocracy, especially if the latter is imposed. The basis of

the deductive rationale would be significantly wider than any-

thing the author can present here, and would be illustrated by

means of a rich body of analytical and statistical material.

Once transmitted to world opinion, such a diagnosis would

quickly become incorporated into it that opinion, forcing naive

political and propaganda doctrines out of societal conscious-

ness. It would reach the nations that were the objects of the

pathocratic empire’s expansionist intentions. This would render

the usefulness of any such propagandized ideology as a

pathocratic Trojan horse doubtful at best.

In spite of differences among them, other countries with

normal human systems would be united by characteristic soli-

darity in the defense of an understood danger, similar to the

solidarity linking normal people living under pathocratic rule.

This consciousness, popularized in the countries affected by

this phenomenon, would simultaneously reinforce psychologi-

cal resistance on the part of normal human societies and furnish

them with new measures of self defense.

Can any pathocratic empire risk permitting such a possibil-

ity?

In times when the above-mentioned disciplines are develop-

ing swiftly in many countries, the problem of preventing such a

psychiatric threat becomes a matter of “to be or not to be” for

pathocracy. Any possibility of such a situation emerging must

thus be staved off prophylactically and skillfully, both within

and without the empire. At the same time, the empire is able to

find effective preventive measures thanks to its consciousness

of being different as well as that specific psychological knowl-

edge of psychopaths with which we are already familiar, par-

tially reinforced by academic knowledge.

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Both inside and outside the boundaries of countries affected

by the above-mentioned phenomenon, a purposeful and con-

scious system of control, terror, and diversion is thus set to

work .

Any scientific papers published under such governments or

imported from abroad must be monitored to ascertain that they

do not contain any data which could be harmful to the pathoc-

racy. Specialists with superior talent become the objects of

blackmail and malicious control. This of course causes the

results to become inferior with reference to these areas of sci-

ence.

The entire operation must of course be managed in such a

way as to avoid attracting the attention of public opinion in

countries with normal human structures. The effects of such a

“bad break” could be too far-reaching. This explains why peo-

ple caught doing investigative work in this area are destroyed

without a sound and suspicious persons are forced abroad to

become the objects of appropriately organized harassment

campaigns there.112

Battles are thus being fought on secret fronts which may be

reminiscent of the Second World War. The soldiers and leaders

fighting in various theaters were not aware that their fate de-

pended on the outcome of that other war, waged by scientists

and other soldiers, whose goal was preventing the Germans

from producing the atom bomb. The Allies won that battle, and

the United States became the first to possess this lethal weapon.

For the present, however, the West keeps losing scientific and

political battles on this new secret front. Lone fighters are

looked upon as odd, denied assistance, or forced to work hard

for their bread. Meanwhile, the ideological Trojan horse keeps

invading new countries.

An examination of the methodology of such battles, both on

the internal and the external fronts, points to that specific

pathocratic knowledge so difficult to comprehend in the light

of the natural language of concepts. In order to be able to con-

trol people and those relatively non-popularized areas of sci-

112 This is also why !obaczewski was deprived of the data he had assembled

over so many years that would have supported the information presented in

this book. [Editor’s note.]

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ence, one must know, or be able to sense, what is going on and

which fragments of psychopathology are most dangerous. The

examiner of this methodology thus also becomes aware of the

boundaries and imperfections of this self-knowledge and prac-

tice, i.e. the other side’s weaknesses, errors, and gaffes, and

may manage to take advantage of them.

In nations with pathocratic systems, supervision over scien-

tific and cultural organizations is assigned to a special depart-

ment of especially trusted people, a “Nameless Office” com-

posed almost entirely of relatively intelligent persons who be-