“We think they are basically like us, have conflicts about things and experience guilt, when they are not like us” Gabbard, M.D. Professor of psychiatry Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic
PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE VLADIMIR PLAHOTNIUC aka VLAD ULINICI Antisocial personality disorder’s DSM–IV TR diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association): The essential feature of an antisocial personality disorder is the pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. To diagnose antisocial personality disorder, the following criteria (three or more) must be met: (1) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest (repeated immoral conduct); (2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure; (3) impulsivity or failure to plan ahead: spontaneity of deviant actions caused by the need to meet immediate impulses; (4) irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults; (5) reckless disregard for safety of self or others; (6) consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behaviour or honour financial obligations; (7) lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
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CONTENT: I. SOME OBSERVATIONS ................................................................................................................................ 2 a. Subject’s behaviour: ................................................................................................................................... 2 b. Subject’s cognition: ..................................................................................................................................... 3 c. Subject’s emotions: ..................................................................................................................................... 4 II. SYMPTOMS OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................. 6 III. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 7 a. CONTROL OR DESTRUCTION: ............................................................................................................. 7 b. WARNING FOR THE FUTURE:.............................................................................................................. 7 c. HOW DOES THE ANTISOCIAL CHOOSE HIS ENTOURAGE? ....................................................... 8 IV. THE MOST PROBABLE EVOLUTION..................................................................................................... 9 V. DIAGNOSIS ................................................................................................................................................. 10 DIAGNOSIS: ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER (type: sociopathic) ................................... 10
I. SOME OBSERVATIONS
A. SUBJECT’S BEHAVIOUR: The following emphasizes Plahotniuc’s impairments in interpersonal functioning: 1.
Lack of guilt or remorse about the negative or harmful effects of his actions on others: he deceives, betrays and takes advantage of others to achieve his goals - exploitation being a primary means when relating to others, including by deceit and coercion, use of dominance or intimidation to control others;
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Persistent or frequent angry feelings, irritability in response to minor slights and insults: Plahotniuc is incapable to accept any criticism, so all those who did not appreciate him deserve to be punished, to suffer and the punishment should be public. His vengeful behaviour involves instrumenting false criminal cases for all who dare to confront him (so everyone could see that they are the bad ones);
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Manipulativeness: he frequently uses the subterfuge to influence or control others: use of seduction, charm, glibness, or ingratiation to achieve his goals. He braves out, simulates and lies virtuously, being motivated by jealousy and possessiveness (he is flattering, charming and generous with those he wants to fool; he hides behind the ones that can be later sacrificed with pleasure at any moment, so he can come out with clean hands);
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Impulsivity: Plahotniuc is always acting on the spur of the moment in response to immediate stimuli, and he is only motivated by immediate satisfactions of his own impulses. Plahotniuc’s actions on a momentary basis without a plan or consideration of outcomes are stable across time or consistent across situations, and this is nothing else than he repeatedly fails to learn from previous experience;
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Goal settings based on personal gratification, the absence of prosocial internal standards associated with failure to conform to lawful or culturally normative ethical behaviour, are defining traits for Plahotniuc’s personality. He has an extraordinary ability to mobilize himself if threatened and demonstrates exceptional self-control and lucidity to achieve his goals;
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He becomes explosive at the slightest hint that he is not superior in anything he does (by idealizing his own image), he does not tolerate frustrations, and if he cannot meet his egocentric needs immediately, he degrades to micro-psychotic paranoid episodes, usually manifested by considering others as either idols or enemies, but still stupid and inferior, by means of sick suspiciousness and an obsessive necessity to control his entourage, he is profoundly disturbed when he thinks (feels) that he is observed.
B . SUBJECT’S COGNITION: Our antisocial subject lives in a hardly imaginable, hostile world. In this world the key element is “pain” which enables to derive the rest of manifestations such as hatred, envy, resentment, permanent desire for revenge and punishment, the need for destruction, focusing on causing others around him maximum pain without having a well-defined purpose from the very beginning. There are some unchanging ideas dominating his mind: •
All of them cause me so much harm that I must return hundredfold:
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I will not forgive anyone: those who wanted to harm me must be punished so that everyone sees what happened to them;
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They are nothing comparing to me, I can take as much as I want from them at any time because I deserve the best and the most precious in this world;
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All of them are hostile, conspire against me, and whenever they show “friendship” or “humanity”, they do it to confuse me even more and to hit me unexpectedly; that is why I always must strike first;
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I have done so much for you all, so now I can take whatever I want because you do not even recognise my greatness;
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Others offended me; that is why the desire to hit them is just a natural reward for the offenses caused to me; by hitting first I only defend myself from the strokes of others;
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Only fools believe in morals and follows laws, they are there just to swindle me; they mean nothing to me;
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I know everything and I am an expert in any field;
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I am the only one who knows what is just and right, that is why I am the supreme justice.
The subject always assigns other qualities that he does not have at all or possesses to an insignificant extent; he fables about himself, talks about himself as about another person, an ideal person; he invents SF-stories and he permanently fables. For these reasons “of his self-perception as a superman”, he considers appropriate to always file claims against others, to demand and to humiliate.
C . SUBJECT’S EMOTIONS: Plahotniuc’s emotions have been marked by childhood traumas: we suppose that he was an unloved child, who was rejected by his father, but also underappreciated, frustrated, and inadequately punished. On the other hand, he felt different from others: he noticed that he felt pleasure from sadistic actions, lies and manipulations. Exactly the deceitfulness and manipulativeness were the only methods to make himself noticed and appreciated by both his family and society (school, disco club etc.). Thus, at maturity he continues to be dominated by infantile emotions.
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He is the only one who suffers, and no one else suffers like him: there is no price for the subject’s sufferings; there is no sufficient measure for sufferings in general, and there is no sufficient misshapenness; nothing is enough for those who want to destroy the world which “intends to destroy them”. There is never too much trouble caused by him, so that he could quench and say “enough, it’s enough for me now!” Entire nations have been sacrificed, hundreds of millions of people died, entire continents were turned into disasters and only physical death stopped them – everyone should suffer the way they are suffering, and even more. Any success, smile, pleasure, satisfaction, good will of others (even a tiny one, or one in perspective or barely seen, or symbolic and conventional) cause him enormous pain;
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“The world around us must love me – if it does not love me willingly, I will force it to”: The subject’s idealized image, what he wants to become (“imaginary Super Ego”) is based on fanatical faith in power and almightiness. For that reason, the subject will exaggerate and selfinflate the appearance of his own importance and power, and that of his extra-consideration;
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For him, any relationship, including an imaginary one, is a competition, a rivalry, a war, where the psychopathic struggles fiercely to win regardless of field and competition. No matter how insignificant the competition might be, even with children, he wants to feel above others. This is an attempt to compensate his own sensation of nothingness and wilderness, which he defends recklessly in the fear of being observed or viewed by others;
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The more aggressive our subject is (and he is very aggressive), the more “correct”, “truthful” and “above others” (more arrogant and superior) he considers himself, and the more he hates and despises others, the less he thinks that others could hate or despise him back;
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In order to assure self-protection, Plahotniuc resorts to cynicism, lies to the denial, denigration and even open laughter at moral values. In addition, the subject feels bewildered and confused among the moral values, and he does not understand them, and that is why he denies them. The cynicism deprives the subject of any remorse, and releases him from the need to determine what he shall believe in;
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Plahotniuc sees a threat in any change; he expects any story as containing exclusively bad news for him. Any test (new situation) may determine him panic, and any situation determines fear of conspiracy against him.
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II. SYMPTOMS OVERVIEW
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The personality is Self-Centred (narcissistic) – all planets spin around him; he is the only one who matters; the rest means nothing to him; he is the most handsome and intelligent, and the rest are obliged to note this fact;
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Such personalities are extremely manipulative and skilled liars; he is a great theatre artist - he is never himself, and always plays what others expect from him; he has no personality and lives episodes from other lives, including the lives of virtual people (TV or legend heroes), he permanently fables;
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This individuals refuse to adapt to moral and social norms although they understand them; they are not interested in the opinions, norms and the feelings of others – marginal cynicism and latent cruelty;
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Such people do not assume responsibility for the antisocial acts, and they are totally devoid of guilt;
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They are motivated by envy and possessiveness – they never feel remorse for the previously committed illegalities or crimes; they always find easily supporting explanation of such deeds, and even reject such memories;
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There is an increased aggression without fear of consequences; unless the compulsion to kill is immediately met, they become self-aggressive and thus compensate otherwise – intrinsic (animal) aggressiveness without having a definite purpose, accompanied by a permanently incoherent and euphoric affect;
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Such people never leave unpunished any action that bothered them – they are proud of themselves that they never forgive their enemies, or leave them unpunished; the punishment shall always be public as a lesson for others;
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They have an extraordinary ability to mobilise themselves if threatened – they might not sleep a lot of nights in a row, follow the elements (virtually) threatening them or wait for the right moment;
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Such people are always in a defensive position – they consider that the world around them is constantly plotting against them and is “digging graves for them”; for that reason they must be always extremely vigilant and to attack first, thus preventing the plot; Profile Plahotniuc, page #6 from 10
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They do not learn from previous experience, even if there are unpleasant consequences for them (imprisonment, for instance). Even if they have been arrested and convicted for their aggressiveness, they will recur at the earliest opportunity;
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This kind of persons become explosive at the slightest hint that they are not the best in everything they do, and do not tolerate frustrations – they are always looking for confirmation of their grandeur and their incomparable magnificence, they get really angry if people around them delay such confirmation;
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Antisocial features have been present from childhood and can be diagnosed only in case of normal or high intelligence;
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They demonstrate an exceptional self-control and lucidity to meet their pulsations;
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Athletic subjects prevail.
III. SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS
A. C O N T R O L O R D E S T R U C T IO N: Anything not controlled should be destroyed – it does not matter if the subject has considerable quotes and values in terms of what “needs to be destroyed” because “it is not under absolute and unconditional control”. However, sooner or later, the subject will suspect that the previous control is not “that absolute”; for that reason, a relationship (especially a durable one) with a psychopath is not possible: even if the artistic entourage does mime “an absolute subjugation”, it will soon become “a deadly enemy” (unless they are “vegetables” in the psychopath’s garden, is pathological masochists looking for their sadist mates). Now more sincere and directly: all of us must be destroyed because we are causing him pain through our simple existence. As a classically advanced psychopath, he immediately attacks anyone as soon as he considers that person helpless or vulnerable;
B . W A RN ING F OR T HE FUTU R E : If we (people surrounding the sociopath) listened carefully to the words of an infantile and narcissistic personality, we would learn that he gives us exhaustive tips to identify his illness: if we collected all his sentences in a table, we would have to just connect these expressions with the definition of narcissism: “I did so much for you that I can take anything from you all”; “I am not interested in a specific structure (company, Government, enterprise) unless I control it personally”; “You will pay for offending me, and I have the right (I am justified) to strike first”; “I suffer
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heroically, but still every day I intrepidly get over pain after pain because my fate is so cruel” etc. – we have to admit that we’ve heard these words on many occasions from these persons.
C . H O W DOE S T HE ANT ISO CI A L C H O O S E H I S E N T O UR A G E ? His entourage must meet the following criteria: •
To be apparently calm and confident in order to weaken the subject’s own feeling of anxiety;
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To produce the psychopath the feeling of his importance and even grandeur; it must feed his exaggerated self-esteem and to “justify his arrogance”;
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To be able to take any blame, to accept any of the psychopath’s accusation, be able to hear and accept any anger because the subject cannot take any blame – he is always right;
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In order to create the subject the feeling of a winner, they should look like losers;
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The subject requires special rights and exclusive positions; he gets angry and is deeply offended, unless these exclusive rights are granted willingly at the initiative of his entourage;
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The subject sleeps very little, and whenever he does so, he never tells anyone when and how much he sleeps; the psychopath considers the fact that he only sleeps 3-4 hours a night as being a reason for praise;
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The subject has a highly developed intuition in identifying pain spots of the people around him – he will press these pain spots systematically and with a surgical precision in order to cause them maximal spiritual pain at every opportunity;
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The subject can admit that he works too little and that he should work harder and more excruciating, but he can never admit that he is less efficient or talented than others – the comparison of his efficiency with other people induces the psychopath into anger;
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The subject considers that he has the right to receive the best from the society, the best in any situation, and the best of the time he lives in, but never with someone else or in cooperation with a partner. The psychopath makes no difference between friends, enemies, spouse, children, parents as signs of an exterior world, from which he is isolated and has to be so;
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The subject foresees just problems and trouble in the future. In the subject‘s opinion, nothing good is going to happen, and things may only get worse. The sociopath considers his organic pessimism as a “worry/fear of not being ready or of being taken by surprise”;
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The psychopath’s psychological structure motivates him to have destructive and irrational conducts, and either to demean others or to make them suffer. The cruelty of an archaic person is the general characteristic of any psychopath, which results because of the
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personality’s underdevelopment or, due to the progressing illness, because the personality’s degrading throughout his life.
Examples of famous psychopaths (aka sociopaths): Stalin, Hitler, Osama ben Laden. “For the sake of the people” that “loved and accepted them”, they produced national disasters – see the characteristics above to be convince of the similarity with Plahotniuc’s pathologic personality.
IV. THE MOST PROBABLE EVOLUTION
Pathological need to control everybody, permanent suspiciousness that his entourage plots against him, the chronic/constant need to punish the ones who do not appreciate and love him will lead to the following evolution:
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The subject will make sure that he controls his current partners by initiating criminal proceedings, by collecting discrediting evidence and spreading rumours about their impotence/weakness;
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The subject will plan ahead the removal of the potentially dangerous partners; he will have longer discussion with them especially; he will flatter them and promise eternal friendship, pursuing to relax them and to weaken their vigilance.
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The subject will start attacking his current partners as soon as their vigilance is weakened – the attack will always be carried out by somebody else; however, the subject will not resist the temptation, and will make sure that his enemies find out that he punished them;
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Since the aggressive actions and the attempt for total control will also have an impact on the society, that is to blame for not loving him enough, the subject will treat the society the same as his partners: he will weaken its vigilance through charity actions, statements on the welfare of the people, by supporting cultural values etc. But regardless of acclamations, the subject will start suspecting that the people bear him malice and do not appreciate enough the subject’s sacrifice for them. From that moment on, the subject will start destroying (punish) the people – he will use his levers (that he intends to acquire or has already done so in all national Profile Plahotniuc, page #9 from 10
importance fields – the subject will control all State and industrial key positions) to increase prices and for repressive measures (police, cases etc.) even for individuals who are insignificant for him, but who deserve to suffer;
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Subsequently, there are 2 finalities: either he will be removed by massive riots or he will choose the self-destruction so that they (people and partners) see what they might lose. It is certain that these subjects neither stop nor change their mind, nor feel any pity or guilt. No punishment is sufficient for those who caused pain (imaginary, of course) and for the ones who have tried to deceive him (us all).
V. DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSIS: ANTISOCIAL PERSONALI TY D ISO RD ER (TYP E: SO CIO PATHIC) As a rule, the individuals with antisocial behaviour as Plahotniuc are criminals and prisoners since their childhood. As they get older, their crimes are crueller and more disguised.
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