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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 20, 2010 23:12:46 GMT -5
Just been wondering (after seeing some names as a reminder) why would someone be oozing with hate.
Would the reason be genetic? If such is the cause why would genes cause such a change as I see no advantage to this on individual level (heightened stress levels, emotion based outlook on reality, paranoia and overall waste of time and energy).
Would a reason be as a result of personal experience? Perhaps coming from a war torn country and experiencing horrors of a war on a personal level might cause this change due to a heightened emotions which are obviously in a negative mode.
Could it be a combination of several elements? If such is the case does one reinforces the other and or could it neutralize the other?
Due do the fact that hate is an advanced form of a negative emotion without much guiding from a reasoning center shouldn't it be perhaps viewed as some form of a mental disorder and treated accordingly (as someone deeply religious might be seen in similar light in not to distant future)?
Just wanted to raise some questions and see some others respond upon this subject.
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 20, 2010 23:19:13 GMT -5
more upon this subject Philosophical views
Philosophers have offered many influential definitions of hatred. René Descartes viewed hate as an awareness that something is bad combined with an urge to withdraw from it. Baruch Spinoza defined hate as a type of pain that is due to an external cause. Aristotle viewed hate as a desire for the annihilation of an object that is incurable by time. Finally, David Hume believed that hate is an irreducible feeling that is not definable at all.[1]
Psychoanalytic views
In psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness.[2] More recently, the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines hate as a "deep, enduring, intense emotion expressing animosity, anger, and hostility towards a person, group, or object."[3] Because hatred is believed to be long-lasting, many psychologists consider it to be more of an attitude or disposition than a temporary emotional state.
Neurological research
The neural correlates of hate have been investigated with an fMRI procedure. In this experiment, people had their brains scanned while viewing pictures of people they hated. The results showed increased activity in the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, bilaterally in the premotor cortex, in the frontal pole, and bilaterally in the medial insula of the human brain. The researchers concluded that there is a distinct pattern of brain activity that occurs when people are experiencing hatred.[4] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatred
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 20, 2010 23:26:43 GMT -5
We have encountered certain members here who were of varying ethnicities with this (what to me is) disorder and the grip of hatred appeared immense upon them. It was practically consuming them from inside out.
All have displayed many similarities mutually speaking (clear halo effect upon their views of the perceived 'enemy' and those who are of their 'own kind' and a very pronounced vision of the world in white and black spectrum without any gray shades whatsoever).
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 20, 2010 23:36:01 GMT -5
Could some of the bellow disorders gives us clues as to what exactly is hatred Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the diagnostic classification system used in the United States, as "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy."
[1]The narcissist is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, and prestige.[2] Narcissistic personality disorder is closely linked to self-centeredness.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder----------- Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder defined in DSM-IV and described as a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person (generally over the age of eighteen years, although it is also found in adolescents), characterized by depth and variability of moods.[1] The disorder typically involves unusual levels of instability in mood; black and white thinking, or splitting; chaotic and unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image, identity, and behavior; as well as a disturbance in the individual's sense of self. In extreme cases, this disturbance in the sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation.[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 20, 2010 23:46:24 GMT -5
Racism and Psychiatry
Forty years ago, a group of black psychiatrists posed what they considered a rhetorical question to the APA when asking should extreme bigotry and racial prejudice be considered a mental disorder? The APA rejected their hypothesis on the basis that racism is a “cultural and social problem and cannot be contributed to any disorder.”
The general consensus was that simply labeling racism as a mental illness would do little if anything to rid society of the problem and would exacerbate political tensions between social groups. Still Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University suggests, “To continue perceiving extreme racism as normative and not pathologic is to lend it legitimacy. Clearly, anyone who scapegoats a whole group of people and seeks to eliminate them to resolve his or her internal conflicts meets criteria for a delusional disorder, a major psychiatric illness.”
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 4th edition (June 2000) “A mental disorder is defined as a behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.
It goes on to say that in order for a syndrome to be classified as a mental illness it must be considered a manifestation of a behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunction in the individual. Neither deviant behavior nor conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual.”
Racism and the Case of Adolph Hitler
History candidly documents the calculated extermination of six million Jewish people under the leadership of Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Third Reich. Hitler believed the concept of racial hygiene (“purity”) and social Darwinism (“survival of the fittest”) should be applied to human populations, which he maniacally engineered into the genocide of approximately six million European Jews known as the Holocaust.
Yet according to the DSM-IV, “Neither deviant behavior nor conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict is a symptom of a dysfunction in the individual.” This begs the question should Adolph Hitler have been critiqued by history as a mere social deviant who simply had a conflict with the Jewish people over the definition of a pure race?
In an article titled "Racism: A Mental Illness?” Psychiatric Services 56:1343,December 2004, Dr. Carl Bell, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Illinois challenges psychiatry to confront a difficult psychosocial problem.
He invites this discussion, “Should we define racism and other fixed beliefs as delusions or some other form of psychopathology? The definition of a delusion is a fixed belief that is not amenable to logic. Many beliefs, such as racism, would fit this definition but are accepted by a culture or a subculture and may not be viewed as delusional. Yet even if some of these beliefs are culturally accepted, they are destructive to individuals and society.
He goes on to say, if we view racism as a form of stress, which is bad for everyone and also can lead to mental illness among susceptible individuals, we might view racism as a public health problem as well as a moral and ethical problem. Putting racism in the public health arena provides us with additional options for dealing with the problem. By including racism in the DSM we might classify it as a delusional disorder or a personality disorder among some individuals.”
If America has truly evolved into a ‘post-racial’ society then the APA in the DSM-V must seriously deliberate racism and racial prejudice and other forms of cultural or subcultural beliefs that harm others as a probable classification of psychopathology.
Sources:
* Racism: a mental illness? Carl Bell, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Illinois Psychiatric Services 56:1343,December 2004
* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 4th edition (June 2000
* Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis, Ronald Bayer, and 1987 Princeton: Princeton University Press.
* Letter to an American Mother, Sigmund Freud, American Journal of Psychiatry, 107 (1951): p. 787. social-activism.suite101.com/article.cfm/should-racism-be-classified-as-a-mental-illness
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Post by hellboy87 on Jun 21, 2010 3:44:41 GMT -5
[1]The narcissist is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, and prestige.[2] Narcissistic personality disorder is closely linked to self-centeredness.
C'est moi^
Do you have to expose me,AAdmin??/
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Post by Caslav Klonimirovic on Jun 21, 2010 4:38:51 GMT -5
This question is right up the alley of an evolutionary anthropologist. That science can explain absolutely everything.
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Jun 21, 2010 12:37:23 GMT -5
Evolutionary anthropology is concerned with both biological and cultural evolution of humans, past and present. It is generally based on a scientific approach, and brings together fields such as archaeology, behavioral ecology, psychology, primatology, and genetics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anthropologySomebody must dabble at this topic since following quote "many psychologists consider it to be more of an attitude or disposition than a temporary emotional state."basically means "hands of the topic". I fail to see how it can be an attitude anymore then a homosexual male choose to be homosexual as a display of a particular attitude since in each case they would be inconveniencing themselves in a extreme manner (facing constant cultural prejudice and biases or constant stress of hatred) that pursuing such an attitude is void of any logic since what benefit would that bring one (that raising a question is such behavior beyond their control and why is that the case)?
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Post by andromeda on Jun 21, 2010 12:42:01 GMT -5
This question is right up the alley of an evolutionary anthropologist. That science can explain absolutely everything. No credible scientist claims that science explains absolutely everything nor does anything in the scientific method infer that. Science doesn't deal with absolute certainty , in fact , that is in the realm of faith. If science was absolutely certain there would be no science. Science merely offers the best explanations available so far based on evidence , reason , and logic.
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