Here's a better Q- Anyone care to speculate how much reports of people "going postal" these days is because of some rescource or need not getting met?
Basically it seems as if there's a bit of a surge in people that are full of Zeal and Gall- that are infurated some need or want isn't met. On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just for posterity, here's the DSM-IV entry for amok: > > A dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by >> an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at >> people and objects. The episode tends to be precipitated by a perceived >> slight or insult and seems to be prevalent only among males. The episode is >> often accompanied by persecutory ideas, automatism, amnesia, exhaustion, >> and a return to premorbid state following the episode. Some instances of >> amok may occur during a brief psychotic episode or constitute the onset or >> an exacerbation of a chronic psychotic process. The original reports that >> used this term were from Malaysia. A similar behavior pattern is found in >> Laos, Philippines, Polynesia (cafard or cathard), Papua New Guinea, and >> Puerto Rico (mal de pelea), and among the Navajo (iich’aa). >> > > -- scanned by the Text Fairy https://github.com/renard314/textfairy > > > On 01/04/2016 12:26 PM, glen wrote: > >> >> Yes, it's in DSM-IV, just not 5, as far as I can tell. >> >> On 01/04/2016 12:10 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: >> >>> Really, Glen. NOT in the DSM-IV or V? Did you try "amuck". That seems >>> to be the culturally appropriate spelling for Malaysia, anyway. It would >>> be nice not to be wrong about everything. >>> >> >> > -- > ⇔ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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