Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
M.E. Thomas2013 Random House, Inc
Sociopathy is a personality disorder that manifests itself in such traits as dishonesty, charm, manipulation, narcissism, and a lack of both remorse and impulse control. In 1980, criminal psychologist Robert Hare developed the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), the universally heralded method for diagnosing psychopathy—used most often to determine whether a criminal is suitable for parole or poses such a danger to society that he deserves the death penalty. But Hare doesn’t believe psychopathy is confined to the prison system. In fact, quite the opposite:
“You’re four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of the corporate ladder than you are walking around the janitor’s office.”
It follows without any doubt that these perversions can and will occur in settings wherein highly vulnerable and arguably defenseless persons are kept under virtual lock and key, and well out of the publics' line of sight, for people possessing traits specific to sociopathic and/or psychopathic mentality thrive on the thought of acquiring access to weaker individuals who have no meaningful way to defend themselves. And in terms of high functioning sociopaths, (such as we might find at the top of the corporate ladder [above]), it a matter or recognizing the fact that these sorts of people purposefully seek clear and unfettered opportunities by which to wage their sadistic practices with as little risk of being exposed as may be possible. Today, it is still a reasonably recognized fact that public mental health care facilities are rife with patient abuse and related clinical depravity; and in certain terms, such facilities are the last places in existence today for society's most perverted sociopaths to find highly vulnerable persons on whom to prey.
In this specific context, no setting more thoroughly includes the relevant elements than The Arizona State Hospital. My contention applies to certain staff at all levels of employ at ASH, but it is most horrifyingly in effect through the illegal and immoral practices of ASH's senior psychiatric physicians and administrative medical staff, who have the full support and protection of both the facility's executive staff, as well as the state's attorney general. It is as graphic a recipe for disaster in terms of sociopathic abuses of power and related sadistic abuses of ASH's highly vulnerable patients as can be imagined, right there smack dab in the middle of Arizona's largest city, and it is ongoing.
AS A MATTER OF STANDARD PRACTICE.
My very real experiences at ASH, as well as in terms of my attempts to shed light on these issues, have proven to me that these issues not only exist at ASH, but also extend well into the highest offices of authority specific to overseeing ASH, including but not limited to the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services, and (as stated already), the Office of the Arizona Attorney General. The very structure of these administrations and their related status in the state power system directly supports this premise, and I know that this can be proven.
THIS WILL PROVEN IN DUE TIME.
I am not adding any new data to this journal for the time being, and I cannot divulge why that is at this time, beyond referencing my broader writing project and the related legal dynamics of that process, which- I am happy to say- is coming along spectacularly. But I am still very much involved with investigating the graphically unlawful administrative misconduct at The Arizona State Hospital, and each and every one of the primary suspects whom I have to date worked to expose in this context (and repeatedly named in the blog itself) are still very much in the spot light. My research at this time does include treatises flowing from medical journals and related data bases, and contemporary revelations specific to socially sanctioned forms of ineptitude and immorality are of particular interest to me, such as the very recently published book that I cite at the begin of this post, "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight", and psychologist Robert Hare's comments about societally sanctioned sociopaths. The fact is, I am still dumbfounded by the things I witnessed while hospitalized at ASH, and when it comes to the manner in which ASH's highest ranking staff systematically suppress all attempts to report these issues while also rejecting the presence of directly applicable rules, regulations, and law, I am more than convinced that we are looking at people so sickeningly addicted to power that they simply are not able to do the right thing, no matter what the cost(s). Herein reside some of modern society's most dangerous members, engaging in their wrongdoing with no understanding of how dismally out off sorts they are with common law and policy, at the expense of the state's taxpayers, and to the direct detriment of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill citizens. And they are getting away with it.
Peace and Frogs.
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