Recently I was an outside third party to an intervention. Just short of a fly on the wall. This is interesting because the intervention directly involved a psychopath.
The person to be saved I think is an empath. Heavily under the influence of the psychopath for their whole life. The victim (the empath) was influencing the people around them to act in a callous and uncaring way. Acting almost as a proto-psychopath. Completely in the psychopaths trance as to what is ‘normal.’ Trying to resolve reality, and their faulty programming, an impossible task.
The psychopath, the empaths parent, instigated it to duck and cover. The common society was starting to trace the bad behaviour all the way back to parent. First a few conscientious observers, then the secondary victims, and it was narrowed down to the proto-psychopath and the psychopath. Suddenly the psychopath went from slinging accusations against the secondary victims, to helping stage the intervention. The projection instantly changed it’s focus. When it was clear it could no longer be brushed under the carpet, the brainwashed minion was sacrificed.
The bad news is that this may well spell the end of the empaths involvement in those societies. But the good news is it will have a lasting impression on the empaths mind. The enormous emotional weight of being confronted on multiple lies by a group of people, in a group setting, could shock the metamind out of it’s trance. Creating a difficult to dismiss web of logic and trust.
As painful as it is to be bombarded with emotional data like this, it seems it can only help. That pain is information about risk the empath is missing! Their entire ability to grasp risk has been compromised and something only slightly less likely than normal will destroy them without their conscience/gut/metamind to warn them. Life is easy if you know who to trust. It seems to me the key is for this to not be the last intervention, but the first in a series. Remaining/adjacent societies need to broaden the context of interventions until the memories, and the clarity they can provide for interventions strong emotions, can no longer be logically orphaned or emotionally drowned out. The criticism will help them see the parent as they really are, a psychopath.