Psychopathology and World Politics

Pettman, Ralph

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“…Pettman emphasizes that it is not enough to tell these leaders to behave differently or to change their behavior. Because of the subconscious nature of the motives involved, “a more radical intervention is required than the rationalistic requirement that people recognize the need to do something different.” 33 Conventional diplomacy, negotiation, and mediation approaches to conflict fail in these situations, in part for the same reasons that traditional approaches to psychological intervention in ASPD fail in everyday life. Failure to do so favors the uncompromising demands of the rogue leadership over the requirements of the population and thwarts consideration of more realistic and necessary, but controversial and politically risky, options to enforce peace.…”

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“…Pettman suggests that while the observed abnormality and dysfunction pertains only to individuals inextricably linked to power, their sustainability depends on their narcissistic ability to transfer that pathological thinking to key political communities or even to an entire culture 33 . In Kolsto’s 2007 study, “The ‘Narcissism of Minor Differences’ Theory: Can It Explain Ethnic Conflict?”, 34 he uses the Yugoslavia breakup to explain that, in many ethnic conflicts and civil wars in the 20th century, the cultural differences between the warring groups were very small.…”

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Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism in Prolonged Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century

Burkle

2015

Disaster med. public health prep.

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The end of the Cold War brought with it many protracted internal conflicts and wars that have lasted for decades and whose persistent instability lies at the heart of both chronic nation-state and regional instability. Responsibility for these chronically failed states has been attributed to multiple unresolved root causes. With previous governance and parties to power no longer trusted or acceptable, the vacuum of leadership in many cases has been filled with "bad leadership." This Concept piece argues that in a number of cases opportunistic leaders, suffering from severe antisocial character disorders, have emerged first as saviors and then as despots, or as common criminals claiming to be patriots, sharing a psychological framework that differs little from those responsible for World War II and the Cold War that followed. I describe the identifying characteristics of this unique and poorly understood subset of the population who are driven to seek the ultimate opportunity to control, dictate, and live out their fantasies of power on the world scene and discuss why their destructive actions remain unabated in the 21st century. Their continued antisocial presence, influence, and levels of violence must be seen as a global security and strategic issue that is not amenable to conventional diplomatic interventions, negotiations, mediations, or international sanctions.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism in Prolonged Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century

Burkle

2015

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…However, the history of organisational crises has illustrated that many of these organisational misbehaviours go unchecked. Research has investigated a range of these negative characteristics in such diverse areas as "celebrity", politics, banking (Boddy, 2011;Owen, 2008;Owen and Davidson, 2009;Pettman, 2010;Stein, 2000;Young and Pinsky, 2006), and even academia (Kornfeld, 2012;List et al, 2001;Parker, 2014). This is especially the case were self-promotion and an increased media profile are seen as a means of achieving the positional power or outcomes that such individuals crave (Brunell et al, 2011;Jensen et al, 2002).…”

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The enemy has passed through the gate

Fischbacher‐Smith

2015

Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance

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The enemy has passed through the gateInsider threats, the dark triad, and the challenges around security Denis Fischbacher-SmithAdam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential role that the so-called "toxic triangle" (Padilla et al., 2007) can play in undermining the processes around effectiveness. It is the interaction between leaders, organisational members, and the environmental context in which those interactions occur that has the potential to generate dysfunctional behaviours and processes. The paper seeks to set out a set of issues that would seem to be worthy of further consideration within the Journal and which deal with the relationships between organisational effectiveness and the threats from insiders. Design/methodology/approach -The paper adopts a systems approach to the threats from insiders and the manner in which it impacts on organisation effectiveness. The ultimate goal of the paper is to stimulate further debate and discussion around the issues. Findings -The paper adds to the discussions around effectiveness by highlighting how senior managers can create the conditions in which failure can occur through the erosion of controls, poor decision making, and the creation of a culture that has the potential to generate failure. Within this setting, insiders can serve to trigger a series of failures by their actions and for which the controls in place are either ineffective or have been by-passed as a result of insider knowledge.Research limitations/implications -The issues raised in this paper need to be tested empirically as a means of providing a clear evidence base in support of their relationships with the generation of organisational ineffectiveness. Practical implications -The paper aims to raise awareness and stimulate thinking by practising managers around the role that the "toxic triangle" of issues can play in creating the conditions by which organisations can incubate the potential for crisis. Originality/value -The paper seeks to bring together a disparate body of published work within the context of "organisational effectiveness" and sets out a series of dark characteristics that organisations need to consider if they are to avoid failure. The paper argues the case that effectiveness can be a fragile construct and that the mechanisms that generate failure also need to be actively considered when discussing what effectiveness means in practice.

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Psychopathology and World Politics

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Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism in Prolonged Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century

Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism in Prolonged Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century

The enemy has passed through the gate

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