Dangerous "Injustice collector"

[jrd1976]

Never heard that term before until used in connection with the shooting of the TV crew.

It means someone who sees injustices in most everything that happens in their life, whether real or perceived, and harbors resentment for years.
The world is out to get them.
They never get the breaks they deserve. Sometimes they strike out with violence, hence being dangerous.

Psychobabble or not, it makes sense when applied to the current line of thinking politically correct, and being offended by everything they don't agree with.

And riot when things don't go their way. And don't acknowledge their own bad behavior.

I can see how this concept can be taught.

 

[loknload]

This country has a fad to dream up new terms and names for whatever they can't fix, plain and simple they don't know what to do about people like this so let's give it a name!
The bottom line is the guy was a whack job, had a chip on his shoulder and grudge against the world and everyone was out to get him,plain and simple. Let's just tell it like it is! The sad part is that two innocent people lost their lives and that alone is very very sad!
As time goes on we may just find out that this guy was on somebodies radar, someone may have been able to nip this in the bud?
They can call it as they wish, I'm not PC and call it as I see it!


Not to shoot the messenger, just my thoughts on the subject!

 

[finesse_r]

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is one school of psychology that is particularly effective in treating this and similar emotional disorders. In fact it is the one school of psychology that I find is very good at treating emotional disorders period. Albert Ellis was the founder of this school of psychology, and it has been around for decades, so this is not new behavior, only a new term or label for it. Just a catch phrase to popularize it in the media.

The treatment is very simple. It is aimed at teaching people to have unrealistic expectations of life and to understand that life is not fair, and expecting it to be so is a form of insanity, that can only make a person miserable. When carried to extremes, these types if irrational expectations can lead to the behavior described in this thread. Typically such unrealistic expectations merely cause unhappiness and misery to people who hold such beliefs. There is nothing chemically or physically wrong with them; they simply cannot give up their unrealistic beliefs or unrealistic expectations of life owing them something or of life being fair to them. To some degree this type of mental disorder is pretty wide spread. Fortunately it very rarely leads to such anti-social behavior as killing others. Usually it just makes the person sad, or depressed, or miserable.

This is absolutely one of the best forms of psychological therapy that there is and it is typically very effective when the therapist knows what he or she is doing. There are several good books on this (originally known as Rational Therapy, and then as Rational Emotive Therapy, and now as Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy) I find Albert Ellis’ books to be the most informative.

While most people have heard of Freud, and few have heard of Albert Ellis, Ellis is the real giant in the field of psychology. As you may have gathered I little use for Freudian Psychoanalysis other than his descriptions of defense mechanisms.

 

[16thVACav]

While most people have heard of Freud, and few have heard of Albert Ellis, Ellis is the real giant in the field of psychology. As you may have gathered I little use for Freudian Psychoanalysis other than his descriptions of defense mechanisms.

I have. I read A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis and Robert Harper when I was in graduate school 40 years ago. I found it very helpful at the time, and over the years I have loaned my dog-eared copy to many friends and associates.