RAD or Reactive Attachment Disorder fits the civgene Amnesia Prototyping model perfectly.
“defined as a condition where an individual has difficulty forming lasting relationships and lacks the ability to be genuinely affectionate toward others. In addition, persons with RAD do not learn to trust others and do not appear to develop a conscience.”
What creates the conditions for RAD?
“This is believed to be caused by abuse or separation (physical or emotional) from one’s primary caregiver during the first three years of life”
The metamind model explains what is happening. The non-psychopath’s brain is in a different mode at this age. Instead of forming memories the metamind is forming types of memories or prototypes. If a child is forced into risk assessment for survival (severe abuse) or has no emotional input whatsoever (Daniel Solomon ignored in an orphanage), prototypes are never created, and the metamind (the conscience/subconscious) can’t compare unlike things. The metamind is a risk engine fed by emotional metadata. With no data to output, no risk is modeled, and no conscience is displayed.
Of course the solution has already been found. Attachment therapy. What’s new is Civgene’s contribution to why it works. A sufficient number of prototypes need to be formed so emotional structures can be attached to all memories, realizing the full biological EQ (and ultimately IQ) and forming a complete metamind. The therapy works because such an extreme trust is formed (in the absence of risk) that during the therapy. Hopefully in stretches of time that are long as possible. The key is no real consequences for the subjects actions, hence the conscience sends no risk signals. In that environment the metamind may change modes to prototyping. In that case it can write new emotional memories as prototypes doing the work that couldn’t occur at a young age. Writing the prototypes that would have naturally formed in between 2 and 8 years old.
The bad news here is, there has been much false hope for curing actual psychopaths. RAD victims may act like young psychopaths, but are not, nor ever will be psychopaths. They are reverting to the pre-civilization gene jealousy conscience (acting like a psychopath.) They have a metamind, but it never fully formed do to a lack of nurturing programming from guardians.
RAD untreated is a preventable, predictable, possibly lifelong, perpetuation of the first state of the metamind for humans born with one. The states are undeveloped(including RAD), suppressed(transitory), metapsychopathy, and protopsychopathy.
References:
http://blog.asha.org/2013/07/11/kid-confidential-what-reactive-attachment-disorder-looks-like/
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/317/transcript