Personality Reconditioning
Personality Reconditioning is a disciplinary measure in the Xenosaga series.
Description[edit]
There are 9 known levels of Personality Reconditioning; all of which involve convicts being treated with Nanomachines implanted into their brains to regulate brain functioning. Subjects that undergo personality reconditioning are marked with a Hebrew number on their forehead when the implanted nanomachines becoming active. Under Galaxy Federation law, Level 8 Personality Reconditioning effectively strips a convict of their basic human rights, demoting them to property of the Federation; the same rights as a Realian's. Andrew Cherenkov is the first person considered for Level 9 Personality Reconditioning, but escaped his confinement before he could undergo the procedure.
Story[edit]
Episode I[edit]
Due to being born from the Life Recycling Act to fight in the Zoar Incident, Andrew Cherenkov was unable to adjust to a life without war. As such, he was subjected to Level 7 Personality Reconditioning after a string of violent crimes he committed. Shortly after, he killed his wife and former lawyer in a fit of rage. As a result, Cherenkov underwent Level 8 Personality Reconditioning, stripping him of his basic human rights, and leaving him with the same legal privileges as a Realian. Cherenkov was once again incarcerated when he murdered the young clone of his late wife, leaving him to be prepped for Level 9 Personality Reconditioning. Before he could be given the procedure, however, he escaped the facility, killing many of the staff and military personnel in the process. It was then that he met Margulis and became a member of the U-TIC Organization.
Later, after having escaped from the Woglinde disaster, Cherenkov experiences several instances of the nanomachines in his head becoming active, causing the number on his forehead to glow.
Database[edit]
Episode I
personality reconditioning facility
The facility to which Cherenkov was committed.
Its purpose is to literally recondition an individual's personality by processes such as altering neural networks, or placing implants that regulate hormone production.
In this age, vicious criminals are subjected without exception to this procedure. Those that go through the procedure are returned to society after they successfully complete their re-education programs.
Episode III
Personality Reconditioning Facility
A facility for performing personality reconditioning.
A facility established to perform personality reconditioning on serious criminals with behavioral brain disorders.
Andrew was institutionalized in this facility's building, which is divided into three departments: a research lab to investigate behavioral brain disorders, a hospital ward to conduct personality reconditioning surgery, and an instructional department to re-educate patients, with the goal of returning them to society.
The re-eduction curriculum is centered around lifestyle guidance and work training; patients with severe emotional disorders may undergo psychotherapy or hypnosis therapy.
Once a full re-education curriculum has been completed and a subject has been acceptably rehabilitated according to baselines set by a court of law, he is allowed to return to regular society and live a normal life, albeit under the surveillance of an administrative manager.
Level 7 Personality Reconditioning
A personality control procedure administered to Andrew.
A treatment given to individuals who have committed a crime as a result of personality irregularities. Nanomachines are implanted into the patient's brain, regulating their thoughts and actions.
The treatment has nine levels which run the gamut from comparatively light control of the brain's neurotransmitter secretions, to complete personality loss, achieved by overwriting data in the cerebral neocortex, and followed by the creation of an entirely new personality within the brain.
Rarely, some people's personalities cannot be corrected. In those cases, the subject will undergo increasingly powerful treatments until personality correction can be verified.
Andrew, a Life Recycling variant, underwent Level 7 and 8 personality reconditioning, but neither was effective. His destructive actions toward anyone who dared oppose him grew steadily worse.
Occasionally, a sort of mark appears on his forehead; this phenomenon occurs when the implanted nanomachines become activated. In other words, it is a sign that the nanomachines are working vigorously within Andrew's brain in an attempt to keep his destructive behavior in check.
In the story, the reconditioning facility staff recommends Andrew for Level 9 treatment, indicating that the commander is a very rare case indeed.
Xenosaga I & II
人格矯正施設
脳の気質性異常による重犯罪者に対し人格矯正処置を行なうために設立された施設。
アンドリューが収容されていた施設でもあり、建物は脳の気質異常を研究する研究棟、人格矯正手術を行なう病棟、社会復帰を目的とした再教育を行なう教習棟の三棟に分かれている。
再教育のカリキュラムは、生活指導及び職業訓練が中心となっているが、心的障害の重い収容者には、心理療法や催眠療法が施される場合もある。
一連の再教育カリキュラムが終了し、司法機関が定めた基準を満たす更生が認められれば、管理責任者の監視の下ではあるが、一般社会に復帰し通常生活を送る事が許される。
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第七種人格矯正処置
脳の気質性異常による犯罪を起こした者に施される人格矯正処置で、情動や衝動を抑制するために、脳内にナノマシンをインプラントする事。
第一種から第九種までの処置が存在し脳内の神経伝達物質の分泌量を操作する比較的軽い処置から、大脳新皮質の情報を書き換える事で一度人格を喪失させ、そこに全く新しい人格を形成する重い処置まで、多段階に及ぶ。
しかし、対象となる人間によっては、稀に人格矯正を受け付けない事があり、そのような場合には矯正が認められるまで、更に強固な処置が延々と施される事になる。
ライフリサイクルの変異体であるアンドリューには、第七種と第八種の人格矯正処置が施されたが、いずれの処置も受け付けず、自身を否定するものに対しての破壊の衝動は、悪化の一途を辿った。
時折、彼の額に文様が現れる事があるが、これはナノマシンの活動が活性化している際に起こる現象で、つまりアンドリューの破壊的な衝動を抑制しようと、ナノマシンが脳内で活発に働いているサインなのである。
劇中で矯正施設職員が、アンドリューを第九種処置のサンプルにと考察していた事から、彼が極めて稀な存在である事がわかる。
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In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 English
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Personality Reconditioning | — |
 Japanese
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人格矯正処置 | Personality Correction Measure |
Gallery[edit]
Level 8 Personality Reconditioning.
The Hebrew number on Cherenkov's forehead begins to glow.
In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| English
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Personality Reconditioning | — |