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PREFACE:
This book was not written in the logical, step by step, outlined way books are suppose to be written. Rather, it started with the many, oh so many, thoughts I jotted down in my PDA over many years.Added were the unwritten thoughts in the RAM of my mind. They came from my daily cycle of treating patients, speaking, and consulting, followed in the evening by newspapers and newscasts. Psychiatry and politics.
Though the principles are applicable to all of humankind, such as the workplace and relationships, this book focuses on the manifestation of human psychology, in the political world.
Organizing all of this was very difficult. Many of these thoughts and observations could fit into several categories we call chapters—and they did. Re-positioning them, deleting redundant ones, and re-writing them were awfully difficult.
In the end something unexpected happened. I learned from the process. As I put it all down on paper, new connections and ideas came to me, some of them the most important in the book. One was the importance to self propagationof the human reflex of attending to the weakest. Another was to curtail that pleasure in helping the weak with the relity of preserving the whole—weather the whole family or the whole society. So the writing process was not always a chore. It had pleasure behind it, as I take pleasure in learning.
The examples of the workings of psychepolitics on the real people mentioned in this book are based solely on my perceptions of them from the media. I do not know anymore about them then that. They are not my patients. If any of them were, I would not mention them due to the concerns of confidentiality.
Also as I did write this book myself, it might not read as smoothly as it might. He or she may not vote for him or her and give himself or herself a worthy candidate. If that last sentence was easy, you’re better at gender grammar then I am. I gave up on it. For now on and throughout this book, he, him, and his refer to both males and females. Her refers to a specific female. Other of my constructions may be equally obtuse. Sorry. At least it is not written in script!