Posted on 12/18/2012 4:12:14 PM PST by servo1969
Psychiatrist James Knoll told CNN’s Headline News today that Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, was acting in a “ritualistic” way during the horrific events. Knoll, who does research at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, said in a recent report that killers like Lanza see themselves as “pseudocommandos … driven by strong feelings of anger and resentment, in addition to having a paranoid character. He plans out the offense ritualistically, and comes prepared with a powerful arsenal of weapons.”
The report continues: “[The pseudocommando] most often kills in public during the daytime. And has no escape planned. Pseudocommandos are 'collectors of injustice' who nurture their wounded narcissism and ultimately retreat into a fantasy life of violence and revenge."
Knoll wrote that killers like Lanza have an “obliterative mindset … his ‘self’ is already dead and … his physical death is of little consequence” in his own mind.
Knoll emailed HLN to let them know that psychiatry couldn’t do much about these sorts of people. “We think far too shallow about these events. We concern ourselves with metal detectors, security systems, 'profiles,' preventing 'the mentally ill' from obtaining firearms. This is shallow, facile thinking. Want to make a material impact? Think deeper. Cultivate a respect for how to teach compassion, nonviolence and personal responsibility in individual minds.”
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You’ll never get me alive coppers! I’ve got trivia on my side!
Oh and this chickensoup guy must know a lot about my personal history. I mean I would get into fights......wait I wouldn’t. I would hmmmmm.........except for a tiny bit of attempted aggression and a jealous attack on a down syndrome kid who was more well-liked by the student population whereas I was the weird one........oh I am sorry I have never hit anyone, nor killed anyone. So one person is enough to cover a whole group?
I cannot believe that I would have to come on here and defend myself because the killer’s parents have come up with the idea that Adam is autistic without even a formal diagnosis. I am waiting for the eventual idea of donating his brain to science since we are so fascinated by it.
Sieze the guns! Jail the aspies!
nonsense.
hell, I was a bouncer in a biker bar for a year during engineering school, and never had to get into a fight. (I'll discount being a 6' 3" 230 lb athlete at the time, because we were talking about something else). So, that makes two of us, and with Megan, three. Empiracle proof!
Autism was just one part of Adam’s makeup.
That is also a part of the black street hustler psychology. A bit of terrorizer threat to get his own way. Reminder of the days when the mob ran protection rackets.
The bright side, yeah I know its hard to see, is that liberal progressives have a strong tendency to over-reach and at some point PO enough voters to throw them out AGAIN.
IF that diagnosis was correct. With the huge increase in autism/Aspergers diagnoses lately, there is certainly a case to be made that false diagnoses account for some of that increase. It’s become almost trendy to say your child has Asperger’s, or ASD, certainly more trendy than saying your kid is lazy, mean, or a brat.
Most people with Aspergers don’t manifest this kind of violence either, it’s more of a trait of people with some type of psychosis, so I think that probably weighs in favor of a misdiagnosis too. Of course all of that is just armchair speculation, so take it for what it’s worth.
Well said.
I hope that it is a misdiagnosis. That way all of the town psychologists can go and start ruminating over something else. I remember originally being diagnosed with PDD(Pervasive Developmental Disorder) before asperger’s was first diagnosed in 1994. Around the time of graduating High School I had learned why I was treated like an idiot, had an association with the special education classes and had a speech impediment and a weird voice. It was really hard to accept autism because I’ve been desperately wanting to be seen as normal through all of my life.
Overtime I’ve become comfortable with the diagnosis but now it has become a demon on my own attitude and behavior. What a breath of fresh air it would be if the parents were wrong on their diagnosis. It still wouldn’t excuse all of the ugly things I’ve read being said about somebody with my disability but I guess I can get over it. I’ve read ugly stuff before.
Megan —
Unquestionably among the best responses to someone acting like a jerk that I’ve read on FR.
Robin
Wow. Excellent post.
There is no “normal.”
Listen to the lyrics of “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” by Alan Parsons.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfeRJ4JBEHc
I really like Eye in the Sky. Yeah I guess I just want a girlfriend who I can get married to, respect in the world, and a social life like some of my peers but without nightclubs and crowds. I mean perhaps envisioning a grand collection of video games, comedy movies by the mile all paid for because I would be a successful lyricist and songwriter may not be the most normal of aspirations I guess but I wouldn’t give that dream up for anything.
I really liked that song you posted. There are plenty of songs that do encapsulate thinking for yourself, not doubting yourself and others. I just wish that that feeling from those songs would sink in longer than a few minutes. I get so easily distracted by rhetoric.
I hear ya. If you have access to Netflix or Amazon, look for the movie called “The Secret.”
The secret of life documentary? Yeah I’ve been really interested in that ever since I started stocking that movie at Best Buy. I don’t think we carry it anymore so those are good suggestions, thanks.
Megan
LOL - you're good Megan - really good....
You are right. I stand corrected. I was a bit mixed up. The “Stone knives and bearskins” line was actually something Spock said in City on the Edge of Forever. But McCoy did opine on 20th Century medicine in that same episode:
McCoy: ... Oh, I’d give a lot to see the hospital. Probably needles and sutures. All the pain. They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures. Oh, the terrible pain!
And, well, he was right both times.
I recall the peyote and loco weed. That sort of thing without the drugs? Might be.
“Lanza was in the autistic spectrum and was incapable of having many of the grand issues that this psychoblabber proposes he had.”
Agreed, a little too much babble.
Although — I sense that regardless of his abilities to excel in certain areas (such as computers), Adam Lanza was probably quite childlike in many ways, hamstrung by his disability (Asperger’s). He probably didn’t have the ability to handle the powers of adult emotions and physical development (i.e., sexual expression) as would a normal 20-year-old. (perhaps that’s just more babble, as well)
Drudge has this Fox News article up, that speculates that the boy was upset because his mother was taking action to gain conservatorship over him and have him committed:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/
Interesting article, worth reading.
“THAT was one of the best responses I’ve seen on Freep!”
Nope. Post #10 is.
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