resistances. In order to visualize this, let us revert once more to
the N. family example, wherein a dozen or so persons collabo-
rated in abusing a pleasant and intelligent thirteen-year-old
scapegoat.
When I explained to the uncles and aunts that they had been
under the influence of a psychologically abnormal person for
years, accepting her delusional world as real and participating
(with perceived honor) in her vindictiveness to the boy who
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was allegedly to blame for her failures, including those which
occurred years before his birth, the shock temporarily stifled
their indignation. There was no subsequent attack, probably
because this took place in my office of the public health service
and I was protected by the white coat I would usually don
whenever I did not feel completely safe. I thus suffered only
verbal threats. A week later, however, they started returning
one by one, pale and rueful; albeit with difficulty, they did
offer their cooperation in helping to repair the family situation
and the future of this unfortunate boy.
Many people suffer an inevitable shock and react with op-
position, protest, and disintegration of their human personality
when informed of such a state of affairs, namely that they have
been under the spellbinding and traumatizing influence of a
macrosocial pathological phenomenon, regardless of whether
they were followers or opponents thereof. Many people are
awakened to anxious protest by the fact that the ideology they
either condemned or somehow accepted, but considered a guid-
ing factor, is now being treated as something secondary in im-
portance.
The noisiest protests will come from those who consider
themselves fair because they condemned this macrosocial phe-
nomenon with literary talent and raised voices, utilizing the
name derived from its most current ideology, as well as making
excessive use of moralizing interpretations with regard to
pathological phenomena. Forcing them to an apperception of a
correct understanding of the pathocracy will be quite a Sisy-
phean labor, since they would have to become conscious of the
fact that their efforts largely served goals which were the oppo-
site of their intentions. Especially if they engaged in such ac-
tivities professionally, it is more practical to avoid liberating
their aggressions; one could even consider such generally eld-
erly people too old for therapy.
Transforming the world view of people living in countries
with normal man’s systems proves a more troublesome task,
since they are much more egotistically attached to the imagin-
ings suggested to them since childhood, making it more diffi-
cult for them to reconcile themselves with the fact that there are
matters which their natural conceptual system cannot assimi-
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late. They also lack the specific experience available to people
who have lived under pathocratic rule for years. We must
therefore expect resistance and attack on the part of people
protecting their livelihoods and positions as well as defending
their personalities from a vexatious disintegration. Refraining
from such estrangement, we have to count on the accordant
reactions of the majority.
The acceptance of such psychotherapy will be different in
countries where societies of normal people have already been
created, offering solid resistance to pathocratic rule. Many
years of experience, practical familiarity with the phenomenon,
and psychological immunization there long ago produced fer-
tile ground for sowing the seeds of objective truth and natural-
istic comprehension. An explanation of the essence of macro-
social phenomenon will be treated like delayed psychotherapy
which should regrettably have been served much earlier (that
would have enabled the patient to avoid many errors) but is
nevertheless useful because it provides order and relaxation
and permits subsequent reasoned action. Such data, accepted
via a rather painful process there, will be associated with the
experience already possessed. There will be no egoistically or
egotistically inspired protests in that world. The value of an
objective view will be appreciated much more rapidly, since it
ensures a basis for reasoned activity. Soon thereafter, the feel-
ing of realism in apprehending the surrounding world, followed
by a sense of humor, would begin to compensate these people
for the experience they have survived, namely the disintegra-
tion of their human personalities caused by such therapy.
This disintegration of the prior world view structure will
create a temporary feeling of an unpleasant void. Therapists
well know the consequent responsibility of filling this void as
quickly as possible with material more credible and trustworthy
than the contents which were disabused, thus helping to avoid
primitive methods of personality reintegration. In practice, it is
best to minimize patient anxiety by making advance promises
that appropriately objectified material will be furnished in the
form of truthful data. This promise must then be kept, partially
anticipating the appearance of disintegrative states. I have suc-
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cessfully tested this technique on individual patients and would
advise its implementation on a mass scale as safe and effective.
For the people who have already developed natural psycho-
logical immunity, their increased resistance to the pathocracy’s
destructive influence upon their personalities, gained due to a
consciousness of pathocracy’s essence, may be of lesser sig-
nificance, but still not without value, since it leads to an ame-
liorated immunization quality at a less burdensome cost in
terms of nervous tension. However, for those hesitant people
who constitute the part of well-adjusted members of the new
middle class, immunizing activities furnished by an awareness
of the pathological nature of the phenomenon may tip their
attitudinal scale in the direction of decency.
The second key aspect of such operations that should be
considered is the influence of such enlightening behavior upon
the personalities of the pathocrats themselves.
In the course of individual psychotherapy, we tend to avoid
making patients aware of permanent aberrations, especially
when we have reason to believe that they are conditioned by
hereditary factors. Psychotherapists, however, are guided by
the consciousness of this condition’s existence in their decision
making. Only in the case of the results of slight brain-tissue
lesions do we decide to make the patient aware of this, so as to
help him elaborate a better tolerance of his difficulties and to
abrogate unnecessary fears. Regarding psychopathic individu-
als, we treat their deviations by means of tactful allusive lan-
guage, bearing in mind that they have a kind of self-
knowledge, and we proceed with the techniques of behavior