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A psychopath or partial psychopath has an impaired capacity to form intimate, trusting mutually satisfying relationships with other human beings as a result of impaired attachment in the earliest years. Unable to find pleasure and satisfaction from others, the psychopath or partial psychopath must turn to things -- goods and services, toys and travel -- to fill the emptiness within.
The emptiness of the hollow man must be filled, and consumerism has learned how.
It is said that a culture creates the kind of people it needs. Maybe we're into frequent separations and changing, shared, paid caregivers in the first three years of the lives of our children so they will grow up with an insatiable need to shop till they drop.
If you're unable to obtain satisfaction from BEING, which is based on love and the pleasure of sharing, then the HAVING MODE, as Eric Fromm put it, is your only choice. "The HAVING MODE, concentrates on material possession, acquisitiveness, power, and aggression and is the basis of such universal evils as greed, envy, and violence..."
1. PSYCHOPATHY
Psychopathy: What is it?
Introduction: An Interview with Dr. Barker
The Mask of Sanity
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
Partial Psychopathy
Incomplete Manifestations of the Disorder
The Partial Psychopath
If We Could Measure this Two Part Empathy
Psychopathy: What Causes It?
The Organic Red Herring
How to Succeed in the Business of Creating Psychopaths
How and Why Changing Caregivers Damage a Young Child
Measuring Attachment
The Diseases of Non-Attachment
Empathic Care: A Definition of "Care"
The Infant's Need for Empathic Care
Deprivation of Empathic Care During Infancy
Psychopathy: What's Wrong With It?
Is There a Critical Mass for Psychopathy?
The Psychopath's Favourite Playground
2. CONSUMERISM
Consumerism: What Is It?
Nonrational Influences
Consumerism: What's Wrong With It?
The Way Out of Mimicking Happiness
Nirvana and Vance Packard
Consumerism, Materialism and Cruelty to Children
To Have or to Be?
Big Brother Couldn't Foresee the Big C -- Consumerism
You Can Never Get Enough ...
The Poverty of a Rich Society
Is This a Culture We Can Afford to be Complacent About
3. CHILDCARE
The Link Between Consumerism and Psychopathy
The Brave New World of Childcare
Consumerism, Arbitrary Male Dominance and Daycare
4. IS DAYCARE REALLY A NECESSITY?
Patriarchy
The Real Culprits
Women's Liberation and Cruelty to Children
Sexism: A Dangerous Delusion
Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye
Radical Feminism
The Feminine Utopia
Accepting the Existing Reality
The Real Quislings in America
Do Not Ask
Mass Media
The Socializing Mode of Childrearing
From Socializing to Helping Mode of Childrearing
The Evolution of Child-Rearing Modes
Guidance: A Plea for Abandonment
Social Science as Propoganda
Social Science
Over-reliance on Social Science for Proof
The Role of Research
A Dangerous Possibility
Our Defense Mechanisms
Our Defense Mechanisms
The Problem of Professional Anxiety
John: A Distressing Film About Separation
5. WHAT CAN BE DONE?
Substituting Conserver Values for Consumer Values
The Tendency to Confuse Difference with Equality
A Return to the Roots of Feminism
The Challenge Before Us
A Sense of Communion
The Politics of Meaning
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