Transgresja psychopatologii do polityki. O paranoicznym zaburzeniu osobowości

  • Author: Mirosław Dąbkowski
  • Year of publication: 2008
  • Source: Show
  • Pages: 78-91
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2008.19.06
  • PDF: apsp/19/apsp1906.pdf

In media commentary and in the speeches of politicians there is a growing number of references to the mental disorders of their adversaries. Indicating the harmful, depreciating and discriminatory attitude towards persons who are actually mentally ill; as well as the magical and ostensible explanation for incomprehensible actions of politicians by attaching an frothy label on them – it is stressed that epistemological and praxeological issues typical for various psychopathological states might have reflection in the functioning of politicians. A deeper knowledge of political scientists on the phenomenology of mental disorders, their aetiology and most of all their socio-biological, psychological and social context, seems to be essential to abandon the overly negative judgements towards them. Paranoid personality disorders were discussed in detail, as the main psychopathological picture, present on the political scene. The causes of this disorder were pointed out (genetic, family, socio-cultural), pathogenetic mechanisms and main indications (in the scope of ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR classification) both behavioural and psychodynamic. The base characteristic of a paranoid personality is a lasting attitude of distrust and suspicion towards the people around combined with the belief in unfriendly and hostile motivations of actions of other people. With clearly listed restrictions one might attempt to point out the probability of paranoid personality occurrence, which will enable a more precise forecast of the future actions of a certain politician.

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