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By manifestos she means "linguistic forms of communication, such as journals, diaries, blogs, letters, diatribes, and videos, which are published in advance or left behind by mass murderers".
She looks at Christopher Dorner, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, James Holmes, Kip Kinkel, Adam Lanza, Gang Lu, Elliot Rodger, Dylann Roof, George Sodini, Jeff Weise, and Charles Whitman.
She says, "Findings revealed a high degree of support for nihilism and ego survival and revenge, moderate support for heroic revenge fantasy and pseudocommando mindset, and limited support for entitlement and envy."
This is the only one of those characteristics I see an article about: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psychiatry/pseudocommando-mass-murderer-blaze-vainglory
She explains:
By manifestos she means "linguistic forms of communication, such as journals, diaries, blogs, letters, diatribes, and videos, which are published in advance or left behind by mass murderers".
She looks at Christopher Dorner, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, James Holmes, Kip Kinkel, Adam Lanza, Gang Lu, Elliot Rodger, Dylann Roof, George Sodini, Jeff Weise, and Charles Whitman.
She says, "Findings revealed a high degree of support for nihilism and ego survival and revenge, moderate support for heroic revenge fantasy and pseudocommando mindset, and limited support for entitlement and envy."
This is the only one of those characteristics I see an article about: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psychiatry/pseudocommando-mass-murderer-blaze-vainglory
She explains:
- Ego survival and revenge is seeking vengeance as a way of broadcasting one’s pain.
- Entitlement is an attitude involving an extreme lack of empathy, in which the individual feels he or she has a right to what others have, and is thus justified in engendering harm
- Envy is a state in which the individual not only wants what others have, but is willing to destroy their enjoyment of the coveted thing or state as a result
- Heroic revenge fantasy is a conviction that, by performing an act of violence, an individual will be freed from persecution
- Nihilism is an extreme form of self-centeredness driven by severe hopelessness and meaninglessness that, when externalized, may result in violence against others
- Pseudocommando is an individual who uses one or more firearms to commit mass murder in a public place. By extension, pseudocommando mindset is a cognitive perspective incorporating innate distrust and a persecutory worldview, which then creates a combination of narcissism and paranoia
