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The psychology of spree shooters : Comments

By Sam Vaknin, published 1/8/2011

Grandiose fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience sustain personal myths resulting in violence and counter-bullying.

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What a set of retrospective (not prescient or expert) observations.

Luckily the author appears to have an online certificate in Psychology otherwise I might accuse him of making vast generalisations, outside his areas of expertise, and very much tailored to fit the latest mass killer headline.

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 1 August 2011 10:49:44 AM
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What the?
Weird article, a criminal profile of spree shooters which ends with the word Hitler.
I'm scratching my head trying to find the link, alleged narcissism perhaps?
People close to Hitler suggested that after Geli Raubal committed suicide a very nasty side of his personality came to the fore which had either been hidden from his friends or began manifesting itself upon her death.
Toward the end of his life Hitler was certainly paranoid, depressed and likely in the early stages of dementia or some neurological problem like MS or Parkinson's disease.
Like a lot of men who served in the great war his health and mental condition would surely have suffered as a result of his time in the trenches, my own great grandfather died at age 42 from a weakened heart brought on by bouts of enteric and pneumonia on Gallipoli.
John Howard's father met a similar fate, a lot of those veterans came home broken old men at 25 and died young.
Hitler wasn't a loner, he was very sociable,gregarious a good conversationalist and had, by all accounts a magnetic personality.
Bitter, narcissistic loners don't develop cults of personality or become dictators of powerful nations.

This article just seems to be another attempt to associate the concepts of "Nazism" and "Anders Breivik", which is pathetic really given the facts of the case, but what can we expect from Anti Racists, they literally have no other ideas except "Whitey Bad".
The whole "He's just a normal Norwegian boy" is just another anti White slur, obviously he's not like everyone else, Breivik is anything but a normal White person.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 1 August 2011 1:03:31 PM
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I thought the article wasn't bad!
Posted by freddington, Monday, 1 August 2011 1:33:32 PM
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...Further, in agreeance with Jay of Melbourne, irrespective of the dramatic nature of mass murder, no test for personality faults will weed out those individuals with a propensity to act-out their fantasies as did Breivik.

...What is more interesting to me is the ability of Nation States to mass murder their own citizens.
Posted by diver dan, Monday, 1 August 2011 2:49:20 PM
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Diver Dan,
....and murder the citizens of other nations whom they essentially hold as captives.
Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto:
“So let us fight together with Israel , with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/Multiculturalists”

Some "Nazi", even Hitler baulked at the idea of Zionism, he predicted, correctly that it'd cause instability in the middle east and endless wars with the Arabs.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 1 August 2011 3:48:38 PM
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This is one area which should be left to the experts, not to verbose online enthusiastic 'amateur' authors who have read a number of books about Psychology/Psychiatry. Everyone has their right to an opinion but the author should make it clear at the beginning whether he is qualifed to comment or not. This is a mish mash of information from various other sources, which may or may not be applicable in any particular case.
Posted by Atman, Monday, 1 August 2011 7:02:39 PM
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