Psychology · Society · Politics & Policy
🎙 Guest: Dr. Joseph Sansone · 📅 Aired October 16, 2026 · ⏱ 55 min episode
▶ Listen now — Psychopathic Authoritarianism with Dr. Joseph Sansone
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Introduction
In this book, he shows that authoritarian systems are not merely political phenomena, but psychological ones, driven by a specific cluster of personality pathologies.
They appeared in every culture and every century, rising to power through manipulation, cruelty, fear, and the systematic exploitation of human weakness.
The book further examines how psychopathic authoritarianism operates not only through individual leaders, but through institutions, media, academia, finance, and the emerging globalist technocratic agenda, including digital surveillance systems, depopulation programs, technocracy, transhumanism, and the erosion of national sovereignty.
The book then asks the deeper question that most works in this genre never reach: why does this pattern recur throughout all of human history?
Dr. Sansone proposes that psychopathic authoritarianism is a habitual behavioral field encoded within the fabric of nature itself, a disease of the soul spread through normalization, reward, fear, coercion, and the corruption of human empathy, conscience, and spiritual connection.
Dr. Joseph Sansone
Dr. Joseph Sansone is a psychotherapist specializing in clinical hypnosis opposed to psychopathic authoritarianism and the author of Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul. Joseph has a B.S. in psychology, an M.S. in clinical mental health counseling, and a PhD in psychology with a transpersonal concentration. He enjoys facilitating self-actualization.
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