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    Clashing Worlds: Diaries of a Psychopath

    By Willem Martens

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    The phenomenon psychopathy is associated with many social-emotional and moral problems which are rarely really understood by others, including scientists and psychological, psychotherapeutic and psychiatric professionals. Very few have any notion of the nature and consequences of daily experiences of psychopaths and how complicated it is for them to be so distinctive from other people. These psychopaths are often aware of their difficult task to cope with a demanding dominant majority in society who will constantly force them to adapt themselves to their rules, lifestyle, morality. These diaries are intended to give other human beings at least a glimpse of my psychopathic state of mind and my responses to normal life and the people around me.
    I am myself a diagnosed psychopath. From early age my psychopathic condition caused myself and others much alienation and troubles. I hoped that further investigations and more profound insight in my own disorder would help me to handle or even overcome my difficult condition which appeared for me to be untreatable. I started as a result of this a training and I worked for decades as psychoanalyst and researcher in forensic psychiatric settings with psychopaths. I was fascinated by those psychopaths who were cured and wrote my PhD-thesis about remission in psychopaths, which is a very rare phenomenon, indeed. I was astonished about the simplicity of ideas and misconceptions about psychopathy of other scholars. I knew from my own and other psychopaths experiences that the reality of our condition was much more complex than they ever could conceive. This motivated me the write a large number of articles in international journals in order to make an attempt to correct and fill the gap of current theories of psychopaths. I am retired now since 5 years and I enjoyed to be in the circumstance to focus myself completely on my old passion, namely composing of music. However, my repose was disturbed by a well-known scholar and friend who asked me to write a book about my own experienced as a psychopath. And so I decided to accept this last task before I should leave forever the scientific arena of the forensic psychiatry. And I do it with a good reason.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWillem Martens
    Release dateSep 8, 2019
    ISBN9780463727669
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    Clashing Worlds: Diaries of a Psychopath
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    Willem Martens

    Martens studied counterpoint, harmony, fuga, composition and film music between 1968 and 1972 with Nadia Boulanger en Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in France. He participated in the 1970 Master Class "Music Concrete" of Pierre Schaeffer. "Between 1969 and 1978 he was appointed as Music Supervisor/Coordinator and film composer by the French network. Afterwards he studied between 1978-1983 Philosophy and Clinical Psychopathology at Amsterdam University and in 1985 he completed his study and training in psychoanalysis with Paul-Laurent Assoun (Paris). He worked for decades as a psychoanalyst in forensic psychiatric hospitals with psychopathic patients. In 1997 he earned his PhD Forensic Psychiatry at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Martens wrote more than 100 articles in international journals and chapters of books. Martens Ensemble (see photo) plays his music. All of his albums were composed, produced and conducted by William Martens himself. Martens Ensemble plays his music. His compositions are frequently experienced as a gateway to another world. His compositions contain electro-acoustic elements, He makes use of traditional classical instruments, as well as of modern electronic equipement and soundshapes which are created from live sampling of all kinds of industrial and nature sounds. Martens produce sound oriented symphonic masterpiece that tells a story. The music are made up with colorful sounds that are reminiscent of any sci-fi flick or music that has an adventure or magic carpet ride. His compositions are characterized by a cinematic and eclectic approach to creating a full length pieces that does tell a story. Martens is a BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) member. All of his 10 albums are available in internet shops such as iTunes, Amazon, CD Universe, eMusic and so on.

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