Human emotion is a mystery.
Why?
Because our so-called scientific idicators and their "triggers", in human beings, continue to baffle the real scientists; those who have remained in a fixed idea, (a fashionable paradigm) like "brain synapsis" or biological determinism. Psychologists since William James and even Freud, have attempted to raise psychology from a speculative "science" to one of measurment, empirical data beginning with an hypothesis, testing, testing, testing, to then "prove" their particicular hypothesis."
This discussion is not about whether psychology is a true science, but to reveal that emotions and certain behaviours continue to be baffling, strange manifestations resulting in unusual and sometimes "evil" behaviour.
The great psychologists and psychatrists of the last century have studied certain behaviours, and have deemed certain behaviours as"anti-social" or "abnormal" with a variaty of names: psychopath, sociopath, Narcissistic personality disorder, Histrionic personality disorder. Antisocial personality disorder (APD), ADHD, and really, the list goes on and on.
In my work as a Secondary school teacher working in a middle to low class area, there was a time when more children were on psyche drugs that, at the time, was humanly impossible; (was there something in the water?) unless of course, suddenly we were faced with some unknown plague. (Some of the classroom horror stories from those children that "forgot to take their meds, to then raise pure havoc in the classroom would curl the hairs on your neck.)
But was or is the condition valid (ADHD etc.,) or a pharmacutical marketing plan to make serious money to keep naturally hyperactive children, well asleep?
I don't want to go all conspiratorial about the trillion dollar pharmacutical industry, pushing drugs like anyone's business, however, it could well be a research project to consider.
My point is human behaviour, despite truly intelligent men and women investigating the subject, in the end, continue to be baffled by certain responses by individuals in certain situations that simply do not make sense.
How do you make sense of insanity?
As a working teacher, there are two actions that work, for me, more often than not, despite a child's prescribed "condition", and that is treating children with respect like human beings and showing a genuine care for their welfare. I know, it sounds cliched, but it works with the hardest most cynical child.
I truly believe that some teenagers are beyond help: attempting to appeal to the better angels of their natures, never works.
But we never give up.
Why?
Because our so-called scientific idicators and their "triggers", in human beings, continue to baffle the real scientists; those who have remained in a fixed idea, (a fashionable paradigm) like "brain synapsis" or biological determinism. Psychologists since William James and even Freud, have attempted to raise psychology from a speculative "science" to one of measurment, empirical data beginning with an hypothesis, testing, testing, testing, to then "prove" their particicular hypothesis."
This discussion is not about whether psychology is a true science, but to reveal that emotions and certain behaviours continue to be baffling, strange manifestations resulting in unusual and sometimes "evil" behaviour.
The great psychologists and psychatrists of the last century have studied certain behaviours, and have deemed certain behaviours as"anti-social" or "abnormal" with a variaty of names: psychopath, sociopath, Narcissistic personality disorder, Histrionic personality disorder. Antisocial personality disorder (APD), ADHD, and really, the list goes on and on.
In my work as a Secondary school teacher working in a middle to low class area, there was a time when more children were on psyche drugs that, at the time, was humanly impossible; (was there something in the water?) unless of course, suddenly we were faced with some unknown plague. (Some of the classroom horror stories from those children that "forgot to take their meds, to then raise pure havoc in the classroom would curl the hairs on your neck.)
But was or is the condition valid (ADHD etc.,) or a pharmacutical marketing plan to make serious money to keep naturally hyperactive children, well asleep?
I don't want to go all conspiratorial about the trillion dollar pharmacutical industry, pushing drugs like anyone's business, however, it could well be a research project to consider.
My point is human behaviour, despite truly intelligent men and women investigating the subject, in the end, continue to be baffled by certain responses by individuals in certain situations that simply do not make sense.
How do you make sense of insanity?
As a working teacher, there are two actions that work, for me, more often than not, despite a child's prescribed "condition", and that is treating children with respect like human beings and showing a genuine care for their welfare. I know, it sounds cliched, but it works with the hardest most cynical child.
I truly believe that some teenagers are beyond help: attempting to appeal to the better angels of their natures, never works.
But we never give up.
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