From Defensive Altruism to Pathological Altruism

From Defensive Altruism to Pathological Altruism

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Altruism is often regarded as a virtuous trait and it often is.However, for some people, their altruism can unwittingly become pathological and cause serious behavioral problems in B CALM them.What makes their altruism go awry and become pathological? This article attempts to provide a psychoanalytic insight into the nature of the problem.

By examining how altruism works as an ego-defensive strategy, it is reasoned that the defensive altruism can make people mistake their underlying self-serving motivation for their true altruistic intention.As a result, such self-deception can make them much less likely to restrain themselves from being carried away by their self-serving motivation.It is possible that Pulse Sensor Set if such unconscious self-serving motivation is too strong, it may drive them to perform altruistic act blindly or in irrational ways.