Elvis Bonaparte
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." -- Hamlet
Yesterday, I happened upon an OP by Tom of Temecula, regarding Dr, Lance Dodes's saying that the defendent is showing evidence of psychosis. The responses were interesting, and I posted a few comments. However, I did not want to hijack the OP/thread with billions and billions of my own thoughts. A link to Tom's OP/thread is found below:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18433608
Now, I did not read the entire article in the link, as it is from a site I do not go to. Thus, what I have to say is about some of the issues mentioned in the discussion, as well as one post that I read about six months ago, but never got around to responding to. It was from a good friend who was frustrated that she was not seeing the defendent behaving as one might expect one in the most intense stage of psychosis to act.
Generally, we think of psychosis in the context of the a separation from reality, in thoughts and/or emotions. It is most commonly associated with one of the severe and persistent major mental illnesses. In the legal system, under the M'Naughten rule, a defendent is considered "sane" -- a strictly legal term -- unless they either did not know what they were doing, or were not aware that what they were doing was wrong. It is relatively rare in the legal system that one is found "insane."
Yet psychosis is not limited to those with major mental illnesses. This is the type that Dr. Dodes was speaking about. (It was what Dr. Bandy Lee and I talked about in the first interview I posted here in 2020.) It tends to be found in people that have personality disorders. In this case, of course, we are talking about the defendent, a sociopath. As such, let's consider a few of his personality factors that are important.
The defendent's self-image is that of the first mob boss to become president. He wants to project the image of never being wrong. He is used to avoiding any meaningful consequences for any of his behaviors. He not only resents anyone who questions his authority, he has a compulsive need to try to do harm to them. Although he is at times paranoid, he does not seem to have had serious issues with anxiety until, by the summer of 2020, he realized he would lose the election. He is convinced if he wants something to be true, and insists it is, it will come to be. This has continued since the 2020 election without the positive outcomes he had previously enjoyed.
Now, psychosis can happen in any number of ways. But, in general, it starts with the prodromal stage, which is the period where symptoms begin to show up. These often go undetected, especially if it is the person's first episode. (It is much more likely to be picked up on if the person has a history and has stopped taking his/her medication.)
Under prolonged and/or intense stress, a sociopath may have relatively brief episodes of psychosis. In the case of the defendent, think of the personality traits I noted above, for this is where his distorted thinking will be rooted. He is not going to come on stage dressed as Elvis and insist that he is Napolean Bonaparte. It will be when the disilled concentrate of the essence of his pathology surfaces in a manner that does not promote his cause.
The greatest pre-indictment period was between November of 2020 and January of 2021. When the tactics which served him in his earlier life were frustrated, he called for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Consider his behaviors in court. The mask of sanity is dropping. You don't need a weather man to know which way this bag of hot air blows.
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"The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality" was published in the early 1940s, by Dr. Hervy (not "Harvey"
Cleckley. It is still available, and a good read. It is based largely on his interviews with incarcerated criminals. It is never, ever pleasant when the mask drops.
An accomplished computer scientist, Jacques Vallee has written about the UFO phenomenon for decades. His work above was published in 1979. He has stated he does not know what UFOs are, but can say they represent a real phenomena with global reach that spans millennia. Dr. Vallee thinks that they appear to be under intelligent control and behave in ways similar to a control system over human imagination and behavior. He has stated the extraterrestrial hypothesis may be too simple for what witnesses have reported and meta-analysis of reports show. From an interview:
"I don’t think there is such a thing as “the flying saucer phenomenon.” I think it has three components and we have to deal with them in different ways.
First, there is a physical object. That may be a flying saucer or it may be a projection or it may be something entirely different. All we know about it is that it represents a tremendous quantity of electromagnetic energy in a small volume. I say that based upon the evidence gathered from traces, from electromagnetic and radar detection and from perturbations of the electromagnetic fields such as Dr. Claude Poher, the French space scientist, has recorded.
Second, there’s the phenomenon the witnesses perceive. What they tell us is that they’ve seen a flying saucer. Now they may have seen that or they may have seen an image of a flying saucer or they may have hallucinated it under the influence of microwave radiation, or any of a number of things may have happened. The fact is that the witnesses were exposed to an event and as a result they experienced a highly complex alteration of perception which caused them to describe the object or objects that figure in their testimony.
Beyond those — the physical phenomenon and the perception phenomenon — we have the third component, the social phenomenon. That’s what happens when the reports are submitted to society and enter the cultural arena. That’s the part which I find most interesting."
SOURCE: http://integralnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/jacques-vallees-integral-approach-to.html
If you don't already own a copy, a PDF:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwaXvvZmDODlZTBkOE1YSldYZG8/edit?pli=1&resourcekey=0-d7wc8h1T2f5neDisx8xl2w
You may agree that this all applies to what the Defendant and Associates have done to market his brand and bend the minds of his base and supporters, the cult of drumpf, as it were.
