CARETAKER OR INSTIGATOR OF DISORDERS: WAR PSYCHIATRY IN THE 21st CENTURY

§ 1. Introduction
In the previous articles, a great deal had been accomplished already to isolate some of the notable illness conditions of War Psychiatry, though a lot remains to be discovered by all serious cross-cultural psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists, clinical psychologists of religion, and clinical psychologists. Since this is an important area that needs to be worked seriously day and night to quicken the curbing of war atrocities being taken place all around the globe, we suggest a serious investigation into the new discipline. For example, we have been successful in coining names for psychiatric illnesses or war disorders such as Hannibal Odyssey Complex (HOC), Absolute Zenith Complex (AZC), Politicomadness (PM), Filialdumm (FD), Norman Psychosis (NP), Winmust Syndrome (WS), Superexaggarare (SE), Dissonance Positionioonis (DP), Superiority Complex Personality Disorder (SCP), Suicidium Bombing Disorder (SBD), Superwunsken Disorder (SD), and Chicken Brooding Disorder (CBD). We have also been successful in developing the Deformation Theory, which though not an illness condition in itself, is capable of curbing the superiority myth that had contributed to many different forms of wars in the world since time immemorial. Even a new theory of man or nature of man that describes vividly the conditions regarding the Homo sapiens Albinos' migration from the African continent and the Asian continent as whole has been presented. The latter solves problems and a lasting trouble that had occasioned the Homo sapiens Albinos to cause havoc in the world through their barbaric wars on the planet earth. A clear progress in the domain of war disorders, which we believe in the near future, could continue to illuminate on our course and the existence of varieties of war disorders in the world, both in the poorer and affluent nations. We would like to caution clinicians and philosophers alike that we believe that there are more conditions out there to be discovered and be described or categorised, therefore, they must intensify their search.

§ 2. Psychiatry as Science and War Psychiatry

War psychiatry studies the reasons as well as the conditions/disorders that compel certain individuals, groups, races, and nations to engage in war and its related atrocities. The discipline sees war as a “disorder” that has caused havoc among the inhabitants of the world and therefore should be removed from the lists of things seen as legitimate to engage in among people in any part of the world. It has taken the lives of millions of people just as the epidemic that took human lives when we were not yet civilised and lacked adequate scientific knowledge of certain diseases.

Psychiatrists divide illness disorders into two groups consisting of first, the biological disorders of memory, perception and feeling. The second group consists of secondary or compensatory processes of rationalisation and action that are affected by social and cultural factors. The constancy of psychiatric disorders throughout the world irrespective of the cultural context in which they manifest themselves is due to this division of psychological functioning into organic substratum and a superimposed, culturally conditioned layer of response and behaviour. Seen in this manner then manic-depressive psychotic disorder patients and schizophrenic patients all over the world have a fixed form or outlook of the illness due to the biological nature of man. But it is the secondary features of the illness that we see some differences, in that the “delusion contents” and the “hallucinations” of the patients are determined by the pathoplastic or compensatory effects of specific cultures the patients hail from (Ayim-Aboagye, 2008). It has also been seen that cultural factors influence the psychological defences or adaptive patterns that are likely to be most common in a particular culture. Early socialisation experiences of childhood are often asserted to be the period when these patterns of defence and adaptation are commenced by certain patients. In studying War Psychiatry, the socio-cultural factors encroaching on the illness conditions of the war patients in the different cultures of the world and its diverse communities are of special interest to us as a clinicians or philosophers of cross-cultural psychology, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and etc.

War Psychiatry deals with research that takes into consideration the manner psychiatric illnesses or disorders compel certain individuals, groups, races, and nations to commence wars causing colossal disturbances on the planet earth. The discipline also takes into consideration factors such as personality characteristics, emotions, social and ideological beliefs influence an individual in a specific group or culture to become zealots or war goers or engineers. In other words, what specific illnesses or conditions precipitate war among nations of the world and their sick or immature leaders; the latter that often commence the wars? While nations and its learned scholars had been manipulated by their politicians/geniuses to keep silent concerning the numerous disorders that initiate wars and the war patrons that lie behind these manipulative activities, this time they would not be silent. How do psychiatric illnesses and psychological factors make people in all times and in a specific geographical region develop the habit of employing the myths concerning gods and cosmic powers to engage in wars and through their rituals and social organisations? This research area could easily be seen as interdisciplinary area, but one must underline the fact that it is about War, psychiatric illnesses, individuals, groups (e.g., Homo sapiens Albinos), races and nations' sickness that compel them to release their anxiety and stress on other people that are living in peace. It is also about religion and psychopathology that bring us closer to psychopathological tradition of other disciplines. During the nineteenth century, for instance the French scholars, psychologists, and psychologists of religion contributed to the study of religion and psychopathology. Here we meet important names like Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and Pierre Janet (1859-1947) whose works have received much attention by many scholars. The former was the first to have described the illness of Multiple Sclerosis. These men were medically trained doctors known as aliénistes, who specialised in mental disease. The different forms of "religious delirium", which they observed, and the manner in which each of them was seen to portray the peculiarities of the underlying disorder intrigued these specialists. Pierre Janet, for example, is said to have contributed tremendously to the psychology of religion by his study and use of case studies of exceptional religious states. It is this knowledge which assures us that in developing this important area, we may need more talented scholars and clinicians alike from many disciplines to aid us to describe the war disorders.

§ 3. The Varieties of War Patrons (Patrõnumikos): War Patron One, War Patron Two, and War Patron Three and other Related Patrons

The word “Patron” is defined by The Concise Oxford Dictionary 9th Edition as “a person who gives financial or other support to a person, cause, work of art, etc., one who buys works of arts, or takes an honorary position in a charity etc.” But in War Psychiatry, “War patrons” is employed to mean those nations that manufacture and sell weapons in the diverse world to make profit out of them. They are the “father” or “ancestor” of wars, in Late Latin “patronymicus” which originates from the Greek word “Patrõnumikos.” It is also useful to maintain the same terminology to refer to even “companies” that are directly involved in the manufacturing and distribution of weapons, which include weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons and conventional weapons as well. Though there are many different types of War patrons, according to the categories I have advanced recently three types of War Patrons (fathers, ancestors) could be distinguished, that include: “War Patron One,” “War Patron Two,” and “War Patron Three.” The role of these nations and agents are scarcely discussed in the world communities in relation to war and how they influence the world negatively. But for the psychiatrist and many different scholars of social psychiatry, the function of these people, races, or nations in the extreme disturbances that occur in the world are essential. These individuals serve us essential information for investigation in connection with deficit and hyperactivity that occur in the physical planet. Their roles indirectly produce the conduct disorders we have with numerous persons, groups, races, and nations in the world, the neurotics as well as the compulsive-obsessive disorder individuals.

These war “fathers” or “ancestors” (nations) consist of the groups that plot in the expanse world to instigate wars directly or indirectly and through violence (but not “care-taking” as other scholars are thinking) or other means or agents leading to disturbances in the world. The War “ancestors” therefore become a target for study to the modern clinical psychiatrist or psychologist, in order to comprehend the stress, oppositional defiant disorders, self-injurious behaviours, and anxiety, which the societies in the world confront in the different corners of the world.

I have mentioned already in the previous articles that these war “ancestors” or “fathers” could be the commencing domain for investigation, that is, that human beings' needs of safety are destabilised through war, disease, natural catastrophes, crime waves, societal disorganisation, neurosis, brain injury, chronically bad situation by them. Abraham Maslow's terminology of self-actualisation which he borrowed from Kurt Goldstein, the meaning, which refers to the desire for self-fulfilment, namely the tendency for even nations to become actualised in what one is potentially is essential here. This desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming (Maslow, 1943: 370-396) is not being realised by many nations due to the manipulative activities of War “fathers” or “ancestors.” Let us in the following describe briefly the three War Patrons we have just mentioned above, which could also be found in the previous article presented, that is, “War Psychiatry and 'War Patrons'” (2009).

§ 4. War Patron One
The nations that fall into this category change with time and it depends on how the situation in the world progresses. With the present understanding that the “true world power” is not military but economic we shall see the diminishing in numbers of those countries belonging to this category. These consist of nations that are large and also measure their strength through their economy in the world. They are very big nations that also consider war waging as not “primitive” but a symbol of power, that is, following the antediluvian thoughts that states that the nation that is capable of killing all others' citizens (in the neighbourhood or expanse world) through the superb weapons that it has manufactured is the great power or possess supremacy in the world. These nations struggle for recognition and frivolous power and could themselves be the originators of wars in the world, sometimes playing the double roles of petty peacemakers and at the same time colossal troublemakers in the world. They depend on weapons selling for the betterment of their economy and consider these as lucrative jobs to be legitimately engaged in, disregarding the devastation it endangers in the world. In the past ages many of the leaders that led these nations were found to be seriously ill and suffered some psychiatric disorders of different kinds. They had terrorised and brutalised the weaker nations that inhabited in their vicinities with their fanatical ideology of being “super race”.

§ 5. War Patron Two
These “ancestor” nations make weapons and distribute them to large part of the world. Though these nations produce mass weapons for sale, due to their cunning behaviour they do not engage in war themselves nor interested in the power struggle/fight that goes on in the world. Their sole interest is about their economy and how to win sales through manipulation of being friends for peace but in secret participates in atrocities all over the world. But War Patron Two, like the first War Patron, also utilises diverse tactics and dubious means where war waging could go on and on in the world in order to increase disturbance and win more income since their despicable behaviours could be hidden from masses in the world. In fact War Patron two may be engaged in some kindness and charity work. Once a nation had purchased, let us say I billion worth of weapons from them, then they shall return, say 2 million to them as contribution or help to fight their poverty or other pressing problems in the area of development. It is the poor own money that is given back to them. They could be mentioned that they are not condoning to war itself but would find appropriate and inappropriate manners to continue their business with these deadly weapons that hurt innocent people on earth.

§ 6. War Patron Three
These “fathers” or “ancestors” make weapons of small scale just to have those weapons to protect themselves and also sell some if they are needed outside. They do not consider themselves as target and therefore care less what goes on in the weapon market of the world. It seems that War Patron Three Nations have strong belief in the “true power,” that is, “economic power” than frivolous power obtained through barbaric wars and means, which conforms to the archaic thoughts.

For those that have not been informed with the different disorders advanced already for this new discipline they could familiarise themselves with the following general disorder of wars.

§ 7. War Psychiatry General Disorder: Chicken Brooding Disorders

§ 7.1. Definition
Chicken Brooding Disorders (CBD) is a psychiatric disturbance where women, children and the weak citizens of the world such as the elders, the blind and the handicapped in general are subjected to all sorts of maltreatment during war period because of their weak nature or dispositions. These persons experience these ill treatments not because they participate in the war itself or have done something wrong whereby they deserve these treatments in general, but because the atmosphere of pandemonium bring them to face these disorders of madmen all around. The latter could be men with psychotic disorders, schizophrenia disorders, or serious illness such as serial murderers. Chicken Brooding Disorders may lead to colossal deaths of innocent citizens who shall be trapped by these madmen and could continue till the wars come to the end. This picture of war are always defended by insincere men both famous and less well-known that are sick in themselves, probably suffering from some personality disorders such as schizophrenia with a well-preserved body.

§ 7.2. Symptoms
Chicken Brooding Disorders consist of extreme maltreatment of the weak or performance of wicked behaviour in the societies during war. Schizophrenia and psychotic patients enjoy carrying out their mad trails of slaughtering those individuals seen as the weaker vessels in the society. Due to the CBD women would be raped and their private parts could be torn or destroyed by these madmen. They could be buried alive, as no one would be there to pay attention to these crimes in war situation. Their captors who take advantage of the war situation in order to engage in these atrocities could defile young virgins and boys. As there is no order in the society in question, persons that are unwell may be let loose to commit horror crimes against humanity. In the case of War Patrons, those that are not meticulous about human life could give the permission to utilise humans both handicapped and the weak in numerous scientific experiments that could not be stopped so far as the war is in progress. The most serious ones are the aftermath of the war where some women and children that survived the war would find themselves suffering from the maltreatment that they received from this particular war. These psychological or psychiatric disorders of all kinds could reveal themselves in trauma, such as the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), while others may become psychotic, schizophrenia, prolong depression for life. CBD is not taken lightly by modern states though they have not addressed the issue that the source of all these come from, that is the War Patrons activities on earth.

§ 8. War Psychiatry and the Future World
Any psychiatric investigation into the current practices of “war fathers” or “war ancestors” in the world will need to acknowledge also the contributions they make in the world to help developments and amenities in societies. But compared to the negative influences war brings, then these help are trivial and therefore should not be discussed at all because only a few manipulated individuals gain from these huge sums of money that accrues into their coffers. This is not to be compared with the atrocities performed and the manner fear gripped citizens continue to deal with their disorders in the next generations and the scars and wound war had created on the expanse earth.

It has been seen that other nations that do not have these practitioners among them also function better to complement the public health sector and major developments in their countries. The unavailability of sufficient resources coming to other various governments in the world do not make them poor because they seek for better services or development to compensate for other needs to be addressed later. The unique contribution of those nations that do not produce these weapons to the mainstream world welfare make is tremendous and needs to be mentioned for the health of the inhabitants of the world and progress sake.

The War Patrons, on the other hand, offer the world with colossal instabilities that are continuous and difficult to see any adaptable techniques that shall be discovered in the interim or in the future unless we adopt this present procedure of viewing this as unhealthy for the world and its inhabitants to indulge in mass murder. Their numerous patients proceed to the church engagements in order to solicit the services of the unseen mentors whose contacts still augment the madness of a few individuals in the societies of the world as a whole. Due to the occurrences of a change in environment to be made by the strenuous contribution of psychiatrists and health specialists to the leaders of the world, both to local people in urban areas and cities, these therapists shall contribute tremendously to anxiety-reduction, which in turn shall aid in the adaptation process of the numerous troubled individuals in the expanse world around us.

§ 9. Summary
There is currently competition going on between those that have become aware of the manipulative tactics used by certain people to steer the world and those that have made it their target to end these immoral practices in the world for ever. We shall not make these contentions our object of studies since as we have asserted already that unstable structures fall by themselves. But what can be said is that the latter groups encourage the world and those that have become aware of the evil approaches used in the world to fight unwanted disturbances that they build a team that shall not look aside or behind in order to engage themselves in serious partnership for development. The leaders of the latter movements often claim to have experienced a call to lead the world to turn a new leaf from their corruptive practices and become generous to the poor among their own citizens and the world at large. They see this as a call which no human hand can brush it aside. They also intend to empower the new emerging economies of the developing world to perform better to relief the anguish of the world, including certain illnesses and disorders that their leaders used to suffer.

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Desmond Ayim-Aboagye received his Ph.D. in Uppsala University, Sweden where he worked as a researcher and later Senior lecturer for a short period. He is currently Associate Professor at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Of late he has helped discovered and developed various war disorders for the discipline War Psychiatry.

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