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Chapter 10


Conduct Under Fire

The psychopolitician may well find himself under attack as an
individual or a member of a group. He may be attacked as a
Communist through some leak in the organization, or he may
be attacked for malpractice.

He may be attacked by the families of
people whom he has injured.

In all cases his conduct in the situation
should be calm and aloof. He should have behind him the authority
of many years of training, and he should have participated fully in
the building of defenses in the field of insanity which give him the
sole claim to expertise on conditions of the mind.
If he has not done his work well, an individual psychopolitician
may be exposed by hostile groups.

These may call into question the
efficacy of psychiatric treatment such as shock, drugs, and general
treatment. Not one of the cases cited need be real, but they should be
documented and printed in such a fashion as to form excellent court
evidence.


When his allegiance is attacked, the psychopolitical operative
should explain his connection with Vienna on the grounds that
Vienna is the place of study for all important matters of the mind.


More importantly, he should laugh into scorn, by reason of his
authority, the sanity of the person attacking him, and if the psychopolitical
archives of the country are adequate many defamatory
data can be unearthed and presented as a rebuttal, if needed.


Should anyone attempt to expose psychotherapy as a psychopolitical
activity, the best defense is calling into question the sanity of the
attacker. The next best defense is authority. The next best defense is
a validation of psychiatric practices in terms of long and impressive
figures.

The next best defense is the actual removal of the
attacker by giving him, or them, treatment sufficient to being about a period of
insanity for the duration of the trial.

This, more than anything else,
would discredit them, but it is extremely dangerous to manage.


Psychopolitics should avoid murder and violence, unless it is done
in the safety of the institution, on persons who have been proven to
be insane.

Where institution deaths appear to be unnecessary, or to
rise in "unreasonable numbers", political capital might be made of
this by city officials or legislature.

If the psychopolitical operative,
himself, or if his group has done a thorough job, defamatory data
concerning the person, or connections, of the would-be attacker
should be on file, should be documented, and should be used in such
a way as to discourage the inquiry.


After a period of indoctrination, a country will expect insanity to
be met by psychopolitical violence. Psychopolitical activities should
become the only recognized treatment for insanity. Indeed, this
notion can be carried to such lengths that it could be made illegal for
electric shock and brain surgery to be omitted in the treatment of a
patient.


In order to defend psychopolitical activities, a great complexity
should be made of psychiatric, psychoanalytical, and psychological
technology.