tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post3148919804733051106..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Why did they do it?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-9563614566032447002016-06-13T13:18:22.918+01:002016-06-13T13:18:22.918+01:00Sorry for (i) the duplication, and (ii) some wise-...Sorry for (i) the duplication, and (ii) some wise-guy software turning my cheerful "Wotcha, doc" into a curt command.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-74733863671775452462016-06-13T09:21:19.194+01:002016-06-13T09:21:19.194+01:00Yes, that sort of thing. Need to trace whether the...Yes, that sort of thing. Need to trace whether these schoolroom events predict the feared later adult events.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-77176017063248673872016-06-12T20:49:45.013+01:002016-06-12T20:49:45.013+01:00Watch, doc. The Old English Journal of Medicine i...Watch, doc. The Old English Journal of Medicine is touching on this issue.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3637463/Teachers-reveal-chilling-behaviour-pupils-destined-criminals.htmldeariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-12368248256189821062016-06-12T16:36:38.612+01:002016-06-12T16:36:38.612+01:00Watch, doc. The Old English Journal of Medicine i...Watch, doc. The Old English Journal of Medicine is touching on this issue.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3637463/Teachers-reveal-chilling-behaviour-pupils-destined-criminals.htmldeariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-70293384917523271122016-06-11T02:01:29.269+01:002016-06-11T02:01:29.269+01:00The ability point was good to bring up. Here are s...The ability point was good to bring up. Here are some other points that might be relevant, though I haven't experienced dealing with such people much except during a stint working in a family-law office long ago: Intermittent Explosive Disorder, similarity to tantrums and even seizures, frontal lobe dormant, limbic system lighting up in a paroxysm of rage, links to personality disorders, particularly borderline and passive-aggressive (IED used to be passive-aggressive PD / aggressive type, linked to sadistic PD), displacement of conflict with partner to acting out against the child - where others would punch a pillow, they hit the child, which gives them a feeling of power they don't have in the rest of their life, a reaction to and outward-turning of their usual feelings of seething resentment and inferiority.EHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-39529957921077708312016-06-09T23:05:33.487+01:002016-06-09T23:05:33.487+01:00I mentioned the findings of the Dunedin study with...I mentioned the findings of the Dunedin study without naming it, but that is as you surmise about general nuisance, with a subset of general criminality, not necessarily anywhere near this level. You are right that frequent changes of address are a psychosis indicator. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-30697534256370402832016-06-09T14:34:29.769+01:002016-06-09T14:34:29.769+01:00Having now looked at the link, a couple of points ...Having now looked at the link, a couple of points occur.<br /><br />1. "Social Service had been alerted to the boys but had failed to take any action". Yet SS (if I may use the abbreviation) are the same sort of people, with the same sort of incentives, who would in a notional world be in charge of somehow frustrating the tendency to wickedness of suitably identified three year olds. That would give me little optimism about the chances of success of any such attempt.<br /><br />As for predisposing factors: you mentioned bisexuality, but didn't refer to having face piercings, being ugly, or being English. <br /><br />The latter point is not entirely a tease: the Orkney satanic abuse scandal turned out to involve not a single Orcadian; every participant was an incomer, mostly from England. Is there any chance that having cleared off elsewhere is a predisposing factor? Presumably so many people do clear off elsewhere that it's not much help, but I do wonder.<br /><br />I have read the suggestion that immigrants - to anywhere, purportedly, from anywhere - are predisposed to psychopathy. Could something of the sort apply to internal migrants too? There's obviously the possibility that they are fleeing people who know them well, including perhaps the local police, but might there also be deeper correlation?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-25600717331851604242016-06-09T14:09:59.820+01:002016-06-09T14:09:59.820+01:00On your interview: well batted, Dr T. I liked the...On your interview: well batted, Dr T. I liked the way you slipped in "intelligence" and "ability": it was a useful contrast to the inevitable whine about resourcing social services. I liked your powerful point at the end, to the effect that attempts to save such children might involve Stalinist levels of intrusion into many families, and that if you're not prepared to thole that, questions of funding are redundant.<br /><br />Two reservations: presumably limitations of time and immediate relevance preclude pointing out how dismal the performance of Social Services can be; I'm not kidding when I refer to them as The Council Buggery Service.<br /><br />My second reservation concerns your early point that children with a future propensity to this sort of evil behaviour can be identified as early as three. I take it that the identification is rough and ready, by which I mean that I'm guessing that only a minority of the identified potentially evil children actually go on to violence and murder? But even more important, is there any evidence that treatment of these children does reduce their tendency to cruel and wicked acts in adult life? After all, if there's no effective treatment, there's not much advantage to identifying them, is there? Unless you take the Not The Nine O'Clock News line, of course.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04clpd7h0b0deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-64246486225719458762016-06-08T21:41:33.801+01:002016-06-08T21:41:33.801+01:00circa 1985 I tried to operate a video recorder whi...circa 1985 I tried to operate a video recorder while being interviewed about what one could deduce from confession videos, and a young reporter, whom I recognised years later to be George Alagiah quickly told me to desist for fear of causing trouble.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-34047481120101476842016-06-08T21:32:08.035+01:002016-06-08T21:32:08.035+01:00I learned three things in my brief TV career: 1. Y...I learned three things in my brief TV career: 1. You can say an awful lot in 1 minute. 2. If you don't grin widely and gesticulate you will look very dull on TV 3. Also c. 1980, if you try and help someone move a table the unions will come out on strike.Marshall Colmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293970978200882404noreply@blogger.com