A modicum of madness furnishes collective movements with their sinister power of attraction. Individuals cope with their own disintegration, their own paranoia, by integrating themselves into the collective delusion, the collective paranoia.

The DSM begins by informing us that "Neither deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) nor conflicts primarily between the individual and society are mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict is a symptom of dysfunction in the individual. By this account we are precluded from locating the sources of individual aggression, destruction, violence, venality, manipulation, exploitation, subordination and other such "pathologies" in the larger society.

The DSM's notion of "conduct disorder" analyzes into four subcategories of 1) aggression toward people and animals, 2) destruction of property,
3) deceitfulness or theft and 4) serious violation of rules. Operative is to treat these disorders as emanating from the characteristics of individuals and affecting the lives of other distinct individuals.

Why does the DSM recognize individual psychosis as involving serious distortion of thought and lack all reference to the reification of murderous social reasoning?