Gill,
There lots of people who live in penury of various sorts without becoming violent. And lots of well-fed people who act violently out of a sense of deprivation. An unmet need, by itself, does not lead to violence unless a NORMATIVE element gets added. “I should have what I need.” That normative element is, in my mind, what connects the lone wolf with mob violence. n Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 12:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Running amok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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] <mailto:[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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