Monoperceptosis

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According to the psychiatrist Wolfgang de Boor, monoperceptosis is a pathologically restricted conception of reality with characteristic patterns of thinking and the processing of experiences, as it typically occurs with terrorists in the course of progressive radicalization (see terrorism ).

Findings

Belong to this syndrome

- overvalue ideas,
- feelings of omnipotence,
- an increased potential for aggression
- possibly a chronic identity crisis with pronounced narcissism and self- centeredness , disturbed partner relationships and a high tendency to repression.

Monoperceptosis is a psycho-mental condition that is characterized by increasingly selective perception in the course of fanaticization and radicalization of a paranoid-accentuated personality when it is under the influence of isolation and indoctrination . At the end of this development there is the loss of reference to reality. Monoperceptosis - although not a psychiatric diagnosis in the sense of the International Classification of Mental Disorders ICD-10 - is a syndromic phenomenon that can occur regularly under extreme living conditions, which is why de Boor's concept offers an aid to understanding the psychodynamics of political or otherwise fanatical criminals.
The starting point for the loss of reference to reality is that the quality and quantity of human perception are strongly controlled by the inner disposition of the perceiver. Just as the hungry person constantly searches his surroundings for something to eat, the frightened person is always inclined to discover signs of a threat in his environment. Corresponding processes take place in the politically or religiously radicalized when, as a member of an encapsulated "cell", he only communicates with fanatical like-minded people. Here not only the perception of the environment with its friend and enemy images can gradually transform; Even deeply rooted values ​​can be restructured imperceptibly. The rule of not killing can be relaxed, at least when it comes to the commonly defined hate figures outside the group. These are increasingly reduced to their enemy characteristics, whereby every conflicting aspect is ignored. Out of a feeling of being chosen and of omnipotence , their death can then be decided and prepared without inhibiting counter-ideas getting in the way.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The term comes from Wolfgang de Boor, used in his article Terrorism: The «Wahn» of the healthy. In: Wolfgang de Boor, Hans-Dieter Schwind: Causes of Terrorism. Walter de Gruyter, 1978, ISBN 3-11-007702-7 .