How to Analyze People
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A person who is interested in protecting themselves from manipulation or mind control should not engage in these sorts of behaviors themselves because some may consider this as giving others permission to treat them the same way. Also, if you are worried about narcissistic or psychopathic acts against you it is probably because you recognize how harmful they can be and these acts repulse you in some way. In the end, the decision of how to behave is up to you, but it is important to remember that many religions believe in universal energy that some call karma and through your actions you can open up the door for negative energy being returned to you.
Does dark psychology represent a range of behaviors that distinguishes human beings from other animals?
Most animals have a hunting instinct, the innate tendency to detect prey and to attack it with ferocity. In this regard, human beings are similar to other animals as we also have this instinct. In fact, human beings are at the top of the food change so our choices of prey are wide and numerous. But two aspects of human behavior appear that mark out humans as different from other species in the animal kingdom. Human beings appear to have a strong instinct to prey upon and even kill members of their own species. And, more importantly, human beings are known to murder without any goal or motive at all.
The essential idea is necessary to understand the predator is recognizing that they are motivated by something, usually a drive to obtain food, territory, or for survival. Human beings have demonstrated time and time again that they engage in acts of violence that are truly wanton: of which there is no clear benefit to the predator. Human beings are believed to be the only species in the animal kingdom that kill without reason. The term dark singularity has been coined to describe this tendency of human beings to be motivated to kill without any clear goal or reason. This dark singularity represents a sinister well of human motivation that all human beings can potentially tap into, representing the capacity for all human beings to act in a wantonly evil way.
Conclusion
Dark psychology is a set of practices designed to manipulate and control others for the benefit of the manipulator. The tools of this art lie on a spectrum and include beginner drugs like persuasion (the marijuana joint) of dark psychology all the way up to mind control (the high-grade Colombian powder of the manipulator). Dark psychology can be studied by those interested in using it to get what they desire and by those motivated to defend themselves from control.
This field of study may be of recent origin, but it draws from established schools of psychology such as the individual psychology concept of Alfred Adler. The approach of dark psychology to human motivation may be more Adlerian in gestalt, but there is some room for the psychoanalytical approach to human motivation as promoted by Sigmund Freud, with whom Adler spent some formative time. Dark psychology, therefore, sees human behavior as being purposive, meaning that it has a goal or purpose, rather than being purely motivated by subconscious forces like libido.
But the dark psychology idea does recognize that human beings are capable of behaving darkly without purposive force. In this fashion, this field approaches human behavior in a manner that is more direct and perhaps less hypocritical than is sometimes seen in academic psychology. Dark psychology recognizes that human beings can behave in a way that is harmful, destructive, antisocial, or cruel for no reason at all. The tendency for psychology to dance around the observation that human beings can behave in this way is part of what renders dark psychology an exciting field of study.
Most people study the subject for purposes of defense. Defending oneself from these dark arts requires an understanding of how manipulators and persuaders work and what motivates them. As persuasion can have motivations both positive and negative (at least, it is generally regarded as more positive than manipulation), even those uninterested in adopting dark psychological tactics can benefit from learning the skills of persuasion.
Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, is really a field of equal prominence with dark psychology. It has been studied for more than 40 years and has been used by news anchors, public speakers, politicians, and others. This technique of mind control is so powerful that the uninitiated can go from free will to conditioned in a matter of minutes. Because of this, learning how to defend from NLP (as well as manipulation) is important in arming men and women for protection from dark psychology. So armed, you can live free from the world of fear and paranoia that the manipulator seeks to erect around you.