Table of Contents
The Cause of Wars and Aggression
Book 1
Introduction to Work
PART I: DELUSION OF TRUTH
Introduction
Chapter One: The Tools of Perception
Limitation of the Senses
Direct Perception versus Neurolinguistic Programming
Phenomenology
Projection and Subjective Truth
Dissecting Perception — Active looking
Perception Loses Innocence
Chapter Two: War Deduced to Delusion
Justification
Thought — Words — Language
Words as Symbols
Language — Limiting Factors
Origin of Language And Diffusion of Perspective
Delusion of Truth
Chapter Three: Inducing Wars
Positive Thinking Process
Moment of Judgment: where Toxic Beliefs, Causes, and Dogmas are Born
Core-Secondary-Peripheral Beliefs
Division
Maintaining Consistency
Circular Arguments
Co-optation
Interpolations
Predictable Anger
SUMMARY – PART I
PART II — CULTURAL INFLUENCE ON WARS
Introduction
Chapter Four: “OR” — A Context for Division
Chapter Five: First Impressions, Human Suggestibility, and Genesis of Ego
First Experiences
Neoteny: Instinct and Free Will
Writing Children’s Reality
Nature of the Ego
Birth of the Ego
Beliefs and Association
Beliefs Grow, Closing Down Reality
Chapter Six: Child Abuse
Factors in Normal Versus Disturbed Development
Touch Deprivation
Other Forms of Abuse
Overview of Parent-Child Interaction
Chapter Seven: Motivations and Ego Defenses
Learning to Adapt
Defenses & Armour Bolster Neurotic Behavior
The Context of Pleasure & Pain
How Neurotics, Egoists, And Their Intentions Add To Distortion
Rejection and Ostracism
Transcendental Motives
Chapter Eight: Adult Ego
Importance of Scripting
Boundary Confusion
Neocortex — Home of the Ego
Chapter Nine: Pathological Personalities
Primitive Demonology and the Dawning of Psychiatry
The Sociopathic Personality
Impulsive Hedonism
Insensitivity or Disregard for the Feelings of Others
Unaffected by Punishment
Deceptive Social Facade
DSM-II Dyssocial Behavior
DSM-III: Antisocial Personality Disorder
Aggressive and Paranoid Personalities
Behavior
Phenomenological Reports
Intrapsychic Processes
Etiology and Development
Parental Hostility
Deficient Parental Models and Social Ostracism
Coping Strategies
Vindictive Interpersonal Behavior
Weak Intrapsychic Controls and the Mechanisms of Rationalization and Projection
Self-perpetuation of Pattern
Perceptual and Cognitive Distortions
Demeaning of Affection and Cooperative Behavior
Creation of Realistic Antagonisms
Remedial Approaches
Narcissistic Personality
Merging and Comparing the Seven Syndromes
Comparing Sociopaths with Dyssocial and Aggressor Personalities
Who the Aggressors Include
– autocrats – Hitler
– monarchies
integrating pathogenesis of beliefs
Comparing Social Disruption (Table 4*)
Perspective
b. Coping With Antisocial types
Chapter Ten: Dogma
Dogma and Pathology
Review
Expanding the Concept of Dogma
Mini—dogmas
Sets/subsets and dogmas/subdogmas
Individual dogma
National dogma
Motivations
Greed
Laziness
Scripts
Characteristics:
3–4. Paranoia—Projection
5. Blindness
6. Complicity
7. Easy Detection
8–10. Division—Crystallization—Polarization
11–16. Inconsistency—Contradiction—Suppression—Defensiveness—Double standards—Hypocrisy
17–22. Constriction—Repetition—Delusion—Single mindedness—Embedment—Prejudice
23-28. Manipulating Cognitive Dissonance —Avarice —Stereotyping —Overgeneralization —Scapegoating —Conformity
29–34. Narrowing Perceptual Field—Contempt—Condemnation—Single-mindedness—Dictatorial—Self-deception
35–37. Bigotry—Zealotry—Chauvinism
38-45. Proselytism —Institutionalization —Distortion —Oppression —Stigmatization —Interpolation —Character assassination —Persecution
46–49. Betrayal—Ambivalence—Fragmentation—Anti-reality
Chapter Eleven: Adolf Hitler
German Culture
Family History: Battery — Permanent Wounds
Linz
Starting School
Klara Hitler
Preadolescence and Adolescence: Ages 11-17 (1900-1906)
Leaving Home
Years of Destitution
World War I
Post War Reaction
Building the Movement
Hitler’s Pedagogy
Strangling Weimar
Tributaries of Support
Hitler’s Intrigues
Intrigue Among Hindenburg Entourage
Immediate Aggression — Anticapitalists Murdered
Invasions Begin
World War II
Retrospect
Psychological Analysis
Developmental Retardation
Assimilation of Alois’ Personality
Narcissistic Personality
Repetition-Compulsion
Psychotic Reactions
Ego Defense Mechanisms
Obsession with Domination
Sexual Perversions
Criminal Aggressor Personality Disorder
Possessed by Hatred
Sadism
Necrophilia
Elitist Dogma
Double Standards
Classism
Racism
Sexism
Colonialism – Imperialism
Nazism Dogma
Hitler Synthesis
Chapter 12: PART I / PART II Synthesis – Solutions – Conclusion
PART I – PART II Synthesis
Solutions
FAMILY SYSTEMS: demystifying child abuse
