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dlk

(11,438 posts)
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:05 AM Feb 2018

Rob Porter and the Pathology With No Name

Rob Porter has exhibited the behavior of a very distinct and common pathology. Yet, here it is 2018, and the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association have not deemed it significant enough to even bother to give it a name. Every day, Americans are beaten and even killed as a result of this pathology, yet we are so mired in tradition, no medical/psychological professional has valued the health, safety, and even life of countless Americans significant enough to have named it. Will we ever move out of the Dark Ages?

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Phoenix61

(16,954 posts)
1. It's not a disease. It's a pattern of behavior
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:20 AM
Feb 2018

It has been extensively studied and there are treatment protocols. People who engage in the behavior are called batterers. Most are male but some are female.

dlk

(11,438 posts)
3. Without a Name, Root Causes Aren't Researched & Truly Effective Treatment Protocols Aren't Developed
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:29 AM
Feb 2018

Merely describing the behavior as battering limits significantly addressing the root cause and making inroads to eliminating it; it's a band-aid for a hemorrhage. This behavior meets the criteria for being included in the DSM as a distinct pathology

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
5. APA may have chosen not to call it a disease.
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:33 AM
Feb 2018

That doesn't make it not a disease. It's different from many other diseases, because the people who suffer the worst symptoms, are not the people who have the disease.

However, I'm not sure I agree with the OP. There are various names for this cluster of symptoms. Narcissistc Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychopath, Sociopath...

Or in the vernacular, "Asshole."

Delmette2.0

(4,143 posts)
2. Only when the perpetrators don't control...
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:23 AM
Feb 2018

Everything including the investivation, diagnosis, treatment and punishment.

dlk

(11,438 posts)
4. It Could Be Accurately Described as the "I Will Control You to the Point of Death Syndrome"
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 11:31 AM
Feb 2018

Without a doubt, this should be in the DSM.

Iggo

(47,489 posts)
8. He hates women.
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:58 PM
Feb 2018

I think there's a name for that.

Hating the one you're supposed to like more than the rest (your mom/sister/wife/girlfriend)? Maybe there's not a clinical name for that.

Iggo

(47,489 posts)
10. Yeah, that's what I was getting at.
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 02:59 PM
Feb 2018

I know what I call 'em.

But I wasn't sure what the med/psych people would call 'em.

(I don't know enough about the subject, is what I'm saying...lol.)

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