Talk:Oliver James (psychologist)

unlawful killing
He also appears in the documentary unlawful killing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.205.240.43 (talk) 21:49, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

"factually incorrect" comment
There is inflammatory comment on him being 'factually incorrect". Given the biog is concise, it reads as if the man is a charlatan. He is not.  His comment on the genetic aspects on schizoprenia were collected from a review of 40 studies by medics in profession, printed in a peer journal.

This is what science does. People can challenge the ideas of today if they have some evidence based reason.

There is no "factually" right or wrong in almost all health and especially mental health issues.

There are only degrees of likelyhood in most cases.

Would you write in Einstein's biog "factually incorrect in many aspects of physics"? (speak to a physicist, the particle physicists will fill you in)

Just seemed to me to be very negative comment.

ps he does believe the proposition as he wonders why mental health problems have exploded over last 50 years - this cannot be purely genetic. We are not fruit flies able to change genes in 50 years of breeding.

Fleet Foxes
The final song on the current Fleet Foxes album is called "Oliver James". Could be a reference to our man, but I don't know how well known he is in the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.114.244 (talk) 11:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Killing spree
I heard Oliver James interviewed today on the BBC's The World Today progamme, in connection with the Winnenden school shooting. When asked whether those who carry out killing sprees were determined to die themselves, he answered: They've got a death-wish and they've nearly all been horribly maltreated. That leaves them deeply depressed and potentially very violent. Like almost all violent people, they have been the object of violence, so that's the way they express themselves, if they're feeling down. BBC: So that store of combustible material if you like comes from being from a dysfunctional background, but what is it that actually "lights the fuse" in the end? Well, I mean, in the case of the man I interviewed in America, who was a rare survivor of spree killing, he actually, what he did was, he was a very decent person basically. He didn't fight back against his brutal parents and family. But eventually he was driven to such extremes that he listended to two radio stations, and one was God's radio station, the other was Satan's. Satan played "Another One Bites the Dust" and that was a message to him, because he by now was getting pretty stir-crazy. And eventually he made a deal with Satan, in which he said, I will kill everyone IF I win the lottery. And, and amazingly, he did really win the lottery. We checked it out, he actually did win it. So he then, you know, went out, and said OK, he went to the gun shop and said "I want to buy the gun that shoots the most bullets as fast as possible. Nobody questioned him about it—this is America, right? And, you know, what flipped him over the edge was that he was moving from a position of wanting to kill himself to a position of deciding that actually he was going to kill his true persecutors. That's true of all of us. We're all in that position, where we feel trapped, we can either, you know, blame ourselves and attack ourselves, or we can lash out outwards.

Does anyone know (from his books) to which killing spree he was referring?

Eric Kvaalen (talk) 16:30, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

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