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tray characteristic psychopathic traits. These people must be

capable of completing their academic studies, albeit sometimes

by forcing examiners to issue generous evaluations. Their tal-

ents are usually inferior to those of average students, especially

regarding psychological science. In spite of that, they are re-

warded for their services by obtaining academic degrees and

positions and are allowed to represent their country’s scientific

community abroad. As especially trusted individuals, they are

allowed to not participate in local meetings of the party, and

even to avoid joining it entirely. In case of need, they might

then pass for non-party. In spite of that, these scientific and

cultural superintendents are well known to the society of nor-

mal people, who learn the art of differentiation rather quickly.

They are not always properly distinguished from agents of the

political police; although they consider themselves to be in a

better class than the latter, they must nevertheless cooperate

with them.

We often meet with such people abroad, in the countries of

normal people, where various foundations and institutes give

them scientific grants with the conviction that they are thereby

assisting the development of proper knowledge in countries

under “communist” governments. These benefactors do not

realize that they are rendering a disservice to such science and

to real scientists by allowing the supervisors to attain a certain

semi-authentic authority, and by allowing them to become

more familiar with whatever they shall later deem to be dan-

gerous.

After all, those people shall later have the power to permit

someone to take a doctorate, embark upon a scientific career,

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achieve academic tenure, and become promoted. Very medio-

cre scientists themselves, they attempt to knock down more

talented persons, governed both by self-interest and that typical

jealousy which characterizes a pathocrat’s attitude toward nor-

mal people. They will be the ones monitoring scientific papers

for their “proper ideology” and attempting to ensure that a

good specialist will be denied the scientific literature he

needs.113

Controls are exceptionally malicious and treacherous in the

psychological sciences in particular, for reasons now under-

standable to us. Written and unwritten lists are compiled for

subjects that may not be taught, and corresponding directives

are issued to appropriately distort other subjects. This list is so

vast in the area of psychology that nothing remains of this sci-

ence except a skeleton picked bare of anything that might be

subtle or penetrating.

A psychiatrist’s required curriculum contains neither the

minimal knowledge from the areas of general, developmental,

and clinical psychology, nor the basic skills in psychotherapy.

Due to such a state of affairs, the most mediocre or privileged

of physicians become a psychiatrist after a course of study

lasting only weeks. This opens the door of psychiatric careers

to individuals who are by nature inclined to serving the

pathocratic authority, and it has fateful repercussions upon the

level of the treatment. It later permits psychiatry to be abused

for purposes for which it should never be used.114

113 Based on many reports of the past 5 years, it seems that the United States

is well on its way to having a similar system. In fact, careful analysis indi-

cates that such a system has been in place for some time now. [Editor’s note.]

114 In Ukraine brain surgery is being performed on schizophrenics. “Ukraine

is confronted with a lack of money, which means no money to buy medi-

cines, so they look for alternative methods of treatment. Then there are psy-

chiatrists in Dnepropetrovsk who think: suppose we cut away a piece of

brain, then we can get rid of schizophrenia cheaply.’ Van Voren imagines

what they might think: ‘Maybe we’ll even get the Nobel prize! One can never

know!.’

“ ‘On the other hand’, he continues, ‘they know just as well that this kind of

operation is not really accepted. So these schizophrenics become supposedly

epileptic, since in extreme cases of epilepsy surgery might be performed.

Under this pretext they cut away pieces of brain.’ The Institute of Neurosur-

gery in Kiev goes even further: there, brain tissue of aborted embryos is

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Since they are undereducated, these psychologists then

prove helpless in the face of many human problems, especially

in cases where detailed knowledge is needed. Such knowledge

must then be acquired on one’s own, a feat not everyone is able

to manage.

Such behavior carries in its wake a good deal of damage

and human injustice in areas of life which have nothing what-

soever to do with politics. Unfortunately, however, such behav-

ior is necessary from the pathocrat’s point of view in order to

prevent these dangerous sciences from jeopardizing the exis-

tence of a system they consider the best of all possible worlds.

Specialists in the areas of psychology and psychopathology

would find an analysis of this system of prohibitions and rec-

ommendations to be highly interesting. This makes it possible

implanted in the brains of mentally disabled people. ‘They say they can cure

disabled people that way. Of course nothing happens or their situation even

worsens, but they ask thousands of dollars for it.’

“In Ukrainian psychiatry insulin is being used as a tranquillizer, i.e. it is

administered in such doses, that the patient lapses into a coma. ‘A kill or cure

remedy. It is being applied in high doses, while diabetics are dying because

there is not enough insulin. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.’ He continues:

‘Electroshocks, on large scale.’ In the Central Psychiatric Institution in Kiev

they are given a dozen a time, without anaesthesia or muscle-relaxant drugs.

Once patients have been given a clean bill of health, they can get another

dozen of shocks on the day of departure: ‘something like a severance pay.

And all of this is happening now’, concludes Van Voren, ‘it is happening

today, at this very moment.’

“In Russian newspapers one can freely write about the political abuse of

psychiatry. But officially the doctrine of Snezhnevsky was never revoked.

Most psychiatrists in Moscow still even believe in it. ‘As a consequence, no

structural change is possible in Moscow. Even now people who hold a posi-

tion at one of those institutes and who want to talk in public about the abuse

of psychiatry are being told that they should better shut up or find themselves

a job elsewhere. This way much of the old power is maintained.’

“Under the pretext of ‘progressing schizophrenia’ dissidentss are still being

locked up in the former Soviet Union, but mainly in the provinces and it is

not so ‘easy’ to do anymore, says Van Voren.

People who are unwelcome to the local authorities might land in an institu-

tion, but nowadays there are organisations for human rights and media who

can get them out. In Turkmenistan it still happens officially. ‘That is a mu-

seum of the old Stalinist Soviet Union and there the theory has been re-

stored.’” “A Mess in Psychiatry”, an interview with Robert van Voren, Gen-

eral Secretary of Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch

newspaper De Volkskrant on August 9, 1997.[Editor’s note.]

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to realize that this may be one of the roads via which we can

reach the crux of the matter or the nature of this macrosocial

phenomenon. The prohibitions engulf depth psychology , the

analysis of the human instinctive substratum , together with

analysis of dreams .

As already pointed out in the chapter introducing some in-

dispensable concepts, an understanding of human instinct is a

key to understanding man; however, a knowledge of said in-

stinct’s anomalies also represents a key to understanding

pathocracy.

Although used ever more rarely in psychological practice,

dream analysis shall always remain the best school of psycho-

logical thought; that makes it dangerous by nature. Conse-

quently, even research on the psychology of mate selection is

frowned upon, at best.

The essence of psychopathy may not, of course, be re-

searched or elucidated. Darkness is cast upon this matter by

means of an intentionally devised definition of psychopathy

which includes various kinds of character disorders, together

with those caused by completely different and known causes.115

This definition must be memorized not only by every lecturer

in psychopathology, psychiatrist, and psychologist, but also by

some political functionaries with no education in that area.

This definition must be used in all public appearances

whenever it is for some reason impossible to avoid the subject.

However, it is preferable for a lecturer in such areas to be

someone who always believes whatever is most convenient in

his situation, and whose intelligence does not predestine him to

delve into subtle differentiations of a psychological nature.

It is also worth pointing out here that the chief doctrine of

said system reads “ Existence defines consciousness ”. As such,

it belongs to psychology rather than to any political doctrine.

This doctrine actually contradicts a good deal of empirical data

indicating the role of hereditary factors in the development of

man’s personality and fate. Lecturers may refer to research on

identical twins, but only in a brief, cautious, and formal fash-

115 This is also the case in the U.S. as noted in several articles by Robert

Hare. [Editor’s note.]

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ion. Considerations on this subject may, however, not be pub-

lished in print.

We return once more to this system’s peculiar psychological

“genius” and its self-knowledge. One might admire how the

above mentioned definitions of psychopathy effectively blocks

the ability to comprehend phenomena covered therein. We may

investigate the relationships between these prohibitions and the

essence of the macrosocial phenomenon they in fact mirror.

We may also observe the limits of these skills and the errors

committed by those who execute this strategy. These shortcom-

ings are skillfully taken advantage of for purposes of smug-

gling through some proper knowledge on the part of the more

talented specialists, or by elderly people no longer fearful for

their careers or even their lives.

The “ideological” battle is thus being waged on territory

completely unperceived by scientists living under governments

of normal human structures and attempting to imagine that

other reality. This applies to all people denouncing “Commu-

nism”, as well as those for whom this ideology has become

their faith.

Shortly after arriving in the U.S.A. , I was handed a news-

paper by a young black man on some street in Queens, N.Y. I