Charles Konia, M.D.

There Is Now A True, Functional Science Of Sociology

When Auguste Comte first delineated sociology as a natural field of study in 1838, there was no understanding of the biological forces at play in the social interactions between and among people. First there had to be knowledge of the biological forces acting within people before the dynamics of social interactions could be understood. Freud’s discovery of the unconscious was a necessary first step in this endeavor. Wilhelm Reich’s elucidation of the three layers of the bio-psychic structure of armored humans, the superficial layer, the destructive middle layer (the Freudian unconscious) and the core (the repository of primary biological impulses) in The Mass Psychology of Fascism represented the true beginning of a scientific sociology.

Reich saw in the ethical ideals of liberalism the social representation of the superficial layer of the individual’s character. The ethics of the liberal serves to keep down the destructive impulses contained in the middle layer. The liberal can recognize the destructiveness of fascist characters on the political Right (Black Fascists). However, because of similarities in his character structure, the liberal is unable to recognize the social destructiveness of fascist characters on the Left (Red Fascists/pseudo-liberals). In fact, he aids and abets them.

From his clinical experience, Reich found that the ideology of the Black Fascist is the expression of the destructive middle layer. By contrast, the ideology of the Red Fascist is the pretense at defense against expression of the destructive middle layer. This ability to dissemble also makes it more difficult for people to recognize the Red fascist than the black Fascist. Moreover, fascist ideologies did not only exist in those who belonged to fascist political parties. They could appear in any person living in an authoritarian society. Reich discovered the emotional plague of armored humans in the expression of the secondary destructive layer of ordinary individuals toward each other. Communists (today’s pseudo-liberals) and Fascists were simply examples of emotional plague characters operating from the extremes of the political Left and the Right.

Elsworth Baker’s discovery of socio-political characterology (Man in the Trap) finally placed sociology on a functional, biologically based, scientific foundation. In addition to the emotional plague character, Baker identified two other socio-political character types. Belonging on the left and right of the socio-political spectrum, they are, respectively, the liberal and the conservative characters. Living in the social surface, the liberal is in favor of social “improvement” but has no idea of the depth and enormity of people’s emotional sickness that prevent them from improving. In effect, bad social situations are made worse. The conservative, having no solutions to offer for social improvement, can only politically oppose the liberal’s harebrained policies. Baker demonstrated clinically that the differences in the ideologies of people on the left and right originated from differences in the pattern of their armor. Since ideologies are bio-social forces in the form of fixed belief systems, the ideologies of the left and right function as socio-political forces that are in constant opposition.

Understanding socio-political characterology permitted one to make sense of current social events with unfailing accuracy. For example, it allowed one to recognize that beginning around 1960, a social transformation of catastrophic proportions took place from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian, a transformation that is now threatening to destroy Western society as we have known it. Prior to that time, the social order was authoritarian. There were approximately equal numbers of liberals and conservatives in the general population. This balance in social forces permitted a degree of social and political stability. The anti-authoritarian transformation resulted in a shift to the extreme left of political center with the prevalence of leftist ideologues who were placed in high social levels through democratic processes. This resulted in the destabilization of society and the headlong descent of America into a socialist state. In today’s anti-authoritarian Western society, socialist thinking is increasingly becoming accepted by the public as the politically correct norm.

September 22, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . Tags: anti-authoritarian society, authoritarian, character structure, politically correct, socio-political character . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments

The Problem With Today’s Psychiatric Therapies

At the root of the problem with all psychiatric therapies is the lack of a functional understanding of a whole series of interrelated, unanswered fundamental questions starting with what constitutes emotional health and sickness? From this question, the following questions logically arise: What are emotions? What is an emotional disturbance? How can emotional disturbances be classified scientifically to provide a rational system of diagnosis and treatment? Without satisfactorily answering all of these questions it is not possible to arrive at a rational, causal method of psychiatric therapy.

Unfortunately, these questions cannot be adequately answered because people’s armored condition prevents them from thinking functionally. Instead, today’s approach to psychiatric therapies falls into two general categories, mechanistic or symptom-based treatment and mystical or “holistic” treatment. Symptom-based approaches to diagnosis, and treatments such as drug therapy and behavior therapy are superficial and of limited value. From an etiological point of view, any symptom can appear in any diagnostic category. The holistic approach does away with the problem of symptoms by focusing on the patient’s “wellness” and the “whole patient” but it evades the problem of diagnosis altogether.

From a functional view, the clinical significance of any symptom is the function that it serves in relation to the individual’s particular character diagnosis. Therefore, understanding the patient’s character structure comes before the significance of the symptom can be understood. This is why it is not possible to correctly treat a psychiatric disorder from a curative point of view without first having established an accurate diagnosis.

Rather than deriving their clinical thinking from their clinical observations, armored therapists force their observations to fit into their preconceived mechanistic-mystical ways of thinking, thereby doing a grave disservice to their patients as well as bringing about the destruction of a once highly respected profession.

September 18, 2011
Categories: accurate diagnosis, character structure, Medical Sciences, Politics, psychiatric therapies, Social Sciences . Tags: accurate diagnosis, character diagnosis, psychiatric therapy . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

The Spread Of The Emotional Plague In Today’s World

The emotional plague was discovered by Wilhelm Reich around 1940 when the authoritarian social order was intact. At that time, there were still pockets of social life that were not infested by it. In today’s anti-authoritarian social order, there is not one area of society that the plague has not penetrated. As a result, every one of the core functions of life to a large extent has been obliterated. In its place, virtually every kind of behavior from the secondary destructive layer- the emotional plague- is permitted expression, often with the protection of the law. Consider, for example, the flagrant abuse of First Amendment rights.

What is the source of the exacerbation of the emotional plague in today’s anti-authoritarian social order? The answer lies in an understanding of socio-political characterology. True liberal characters live almost exclusively from the surface layer or facade of their bio-psychic structure. Through their intellect, they use their facade to defend themselves from their destructive middle layer. They are, therefore, socially benign people. In contrast, pseudo-liberal characters pretend to believe in the ideals of liberalism by, for example, belonging to the Democratic Party in America. This conscious tactic serves to identify them as legitimate liberals in the public’s eyes and allows them to express impulses from their destructive middle layer, the emotional plague, in their social policies.

Pseudo-liberal characters are the primary carriers of the emotional plague in today’s anti-authoritarian society. No different from old time communists, they are highly intelligent and well adapted to the ways of the modern world in carrying out their destructive social agenda. They are the ones most responsible for the widespread social decline that is currently taking place exactly because they have successfully infiltrated the politicat mainstream of Western Societies and have become part of their institutions and governments. Like any infectious disease, people must first recognize its existence and destructiveness before remedial action can be taken to oppose them.

September 14, 2011
Categories: Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 1 Comment

What Is Most Difficult To See

The hardest thing for people to see is what is happening right in front of their eyes. Because people’s way of seeing and thinking is distorted by armor, they often cannot see social processes for what they really are. As an example of people’s psychic blindness, consider their inability to recognize the transformation of the order of Western society from authoritarian to anti-authoritarian that began around 1960 and is now threatening to obliterate Western society as we have known it. People cannot see the totality of this historic cataclysm and the resultant destructive social and economic effect that it continues to have on everyone’s life. At most, people are able to recognize what is happening in bits and pieces focusing on this or that particular manifestation of a social decline. The majority are completely oblivious of the fact that anything unusual is going on. Moreover, those who recognize that something destructive is happening think about the transformation strictly from within the context of the social facade. They do not understand that from a functional perspective a social upheaval is erupting on the social surface but that it’s origins are from the depths of the bio-psychic structure of armored humans, from their destructive middle layer and from their biological core.

Unable to recognize why and how a fundamental transformation in social life is taking place leaves everyone completely helpless to do anything genuinely constructive. It can be predicted with absolute certainty that unless the dynamic bio-social forces underlying the transformation are understood and addressed, social, economic and political conditions will continue to deteriorate. The first step to address it would be to recognize that a social transformation of fundamental proportions is, in fact, taking place.

September 5, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 8 Comments

The Most Effective Anti-communists Are Ex-communists

Communism/pseudo-liberalism is a highly infectious, socially communicable disease manifested as a ruthless ideology. Identifying itself with different labels such as progressive , new leftist, socialist, it is extremely adaptable to changing social conditions and it functions to wreck havoc on social life. Because of its highly seductive facade of idealism, young people are especially prone to be infected by it. Once the infection takes hold of the individual, it largely determines his or her course of life and thinking.

In rare cases, the individual recovers from the disease. When this happens, exposure to communism confers a kind of immunity and resistance to it. This first-hand personal experience with communism provides a clearer sense of its destructiveness and how the disease operates than is understood by those who have not been infected by it. One has a feeling from the writing of recovered communists that their anti-communism comes from their gut and not only from their intellect as it often does in anti-communists who were not previously infected. The recovered ones seem to have a deeper sense of the true source of the disease. Some current examples of these survivors are David Horowitz and Norman Podhoretz although there are many others.

For example, comparing Obama to communists of the past, Podhoretz writes, “… whereas the communists had in their delusional vision of the Soviet Union a model of the kind of society that would replace the one they were bent on destroying, the new leftists only knew what they were against: America, or Amerika as they spelled it to suggest its kinship to Nazi Germany. Thanks, however, to the unmaking of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian nightmare, they did not know what they were for. Yet once they had pulled off the incredible feat of taking over the Democratic Party … they dropped the vain hope of a revolution, and in the social democratic system most fully developed in Sweden found an alternative to American capitalism that had a realistic possibility of being achieved through gradual political reform… It was only with the advent of Barack Obama that the leftists at long last succeeded in nominating one of their own.” (The Wall Street Journal August 13-14, 2011).

What is the difference in the approach of Obama’s anti-communist critics between those who are recovered anti-communists and those who did not go through the process of “immunization”? Most conservatives who are not recovered anti-communists appear to be stuck in the social facade of rationalism. Their opposition to Obama’s policies are exclusively based on their reasoning powers. However, although Obama’s political agenda is expressed from the superficial layer, it originates almost entirely from the destructive middle layer of his pseudo-liberal character structure. This is why reason cannot touch it. Ex-communist critics of Obama, on the other hand, because of their past exposure to the disease, have a better sense of the destructive source of his political policies and this perspective is more effective in recognizing and exposing who Mr. Obama really is to the public.

August 26, 2011
Categories: Biological Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: Leave a comment

President Obama’s Day Of Reckoning

In his article, “What Happened to Obama? Absolutely Nothing” (The Wall Street Journal, August 13-14, 2011), Norman Podhoretz describes President Obama as ” a genuine product of the political culture that had its birth among a marginal group of leftists in the early 1960s and that by the end of the decade had spread metastatically to the universities , the mainstream media, the mainline churches and the entertainment industry. Like their communist ancestors of the 1930s, the leftist radicals of the ’60s were convinced that the United States was so rotten that only a revolution could save it”. At the tail end of his run for the presidency, Mr. Obama, in a rare moment of candor promised: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Referring again to President Obama, Mr. Podhoretz concludes: ” He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, and it is this rather than inexperience or incompetence or weakness or stupidity that accounts for the richly deserved failure both at home and abroad of the policies stemming from that reprehensible cast of mind.”

Mr. Podhoretz has an intuitive understanding that communism is a social cancer that can metastasize and destroy all social organizations. If he had knowledge of sociopolitical characterology he would easily recognize Mr. Obama as a pseudo-liberal/communist character. There can no longer be any doubt about the socio-political agenda of the pseudo-liberal/communist character. His stated personal agenda is to appear and act like a loyal American. His unstated political agenda is to bring America to its knees through a process of socialization and, at the same time, to subordinate it under the authority of the United Nations. This goal is similar to the bygone Soviet Union’s stated goal of international socialism.

Mr. Obama’s day of reckoning is Election Day, 2012 at which time he will have to convince the leftist ideologues that supported him for the presidency in 2008 that he is still committed to transforming America into a socialist state and, at the same time, he must once again successfully deceive millions of well-intentioned but misguided American voters that he is a loyal American.

August 18, 2011
Categories: Politics, Social Sciences . . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 5 Comments

Europe’s Trouble With Islam

Europe’s trouble with Islam is another symptom of social pathology that is impossible to understand without knowledge of sociopolitical characterology (see blog, Can Muslim Societies Be Compatible With Democracy? November 27, 2010).

Muslim society is rigidly authoritarian. Based on severe sexual repression of children and adolescents, the subjugation of women, a strong mystical tendency and commitment to the Muslim system of law (shariah) over Western law, most Muslim immigrants in Europe belong in varying degrees to the right of the sociopolitical spectrum. Proceeding from the political center to the extreme right, this group includes conservatives, extreme conservatives, reactionaries and fascists. Therefore, the political mainstream in Muslim societies is somewhere to the right of center.

By contrast, Western societies today are anti-authoritarian. Based on the abolition of male authority and the authoritarian family, the widespread disregard for all forms of social tradition and law including the prevalence of sexual license and the use of street drugs, the political mainstream in Western society is shifted far to the left of center. Proceeding from the political center to the extreme left, leftists includes liberals, socialists and pseudo-liberal/communists. To complicate matters, this leftward shift has necessarily resulted in the polarization of European society with many non-Muslim Europeans gravitating to the political extremes of left and right. These are the major underlying bio-social forces that are operating in the cultural clash between the Muslim and non-Muslim Europeans.

Those belonging on the political right have a selective attitude toward social life. To the degree that Muslims are on the political right, they have difficulty adjusting and are intolerant of a society dominated by leftist norms. This is why they segregate themselves and live separately from the rest of the European community in accordance with their Muslim mores.

On the other hand, non- Muslim Europeans belonging on the political right, have difficulty with, and are intolerant of the Muslims’ way of life in Europe. They expect Muslims to adjust to Western ways overnight.

Europeans belonging on the political left, on the other hand, have a collectivist attitude toward social living. These leftists go to a great extent to accommodate themselves and tolerate the Muslims’ way of life in Europe, some even supporting shariah law for European Muslims. Thus, the presence of large numbers of Muslims in Europe exacerbates the divisiveness of an already riven society. The recent massacre in Oslo is the latest manifestation of this polarization in European society.

It is impossible to make sense of what is going on between European Muslims and non-Muslim Europeans without first understanding the socio-political character structure of those involved in what is happening.

August 13, 2011
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The Emotional Plague, The Origin Of Social Pathology, Is Not Recognized

Today’s state of knowledge of social pathology is not unlike that which existed about medical pathology in the seventeenth century when there was little or no scientific knowledge of the origin of infectious and other diseases. Imagine practicing medicine or surgery without knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology and all the other branches of medicine necessary to diagnose and treat medical conditions. Yet, this is exactly what the sociologists, economists and politicians of today are trying to do when they attempt to remedy social problems without a proper scientific orientation which requires among other things taking into account a careful history of the biological origin of social pathology. Expecting today’s politician to take care of social problems is like giving a barber surgical tools and asking him to perform heart surgery.

Particularly destructive is the lack of understanding of the function played by a politician’s individual and sociopolitical character in determining social and political policy. A politician’s character structure and not the political party to which he belongs is the primary determining factor in his or her political thinking and behavior. The public’s ignorance of this important fact is the reason that high ranking politicians with a communist character structure posing as true Democrats and members of the Democratic Party are able to do enormous economic harm by, for example, shoving tax and socialist programs down the public’s throat. Happening today in front of everyone’s eyes, no one really sees these impersonators for who they are and what they are doing . This is because the function of the communist’s sociopolitical character structure is not understood: A communist is an emotional plague character on the extreme left, someone who will do whatever it takes to bring down America and in so doing destroy all forms of healthy social life worldwide.

More generally, the emotional plague has infested every part of social and political life. Yet, the emotional pathology of the armored masses of people that contributes to each and every one of our social problem is consistently evaded. Some serious examples are the increase in dependency and sense of entitlement of the armored helpless masses on the productive segment of society; the self-serving ever-present leftist politicians ready to take political advantage of the situation; the politicians from both sides of the sociopolitical spectrum who attempt to solve economic problems by interfering with and controlling market forces and so on. These as well as other social problems will continue to escalate until the emotional plague is recognized, sequestered and treated like every other infectious epidemic disease that infests human life.

August 10, 2011
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