Charles Konia, M.D.

When an emotional plague event threatens the core functions of human life such as a school shooting, there is at first a panic reaction which is then followed by the need for immediate understanding and elimination of the threat. People react automatically to avoid looking at the underlying problem and seek symptomatic solutions such as “gun control.”
Understanding the emotional forces operating within people that turn some into mass murderers are kept a deep secret. People facing their emotional depths in social encounters that have to do with core functions of life are avoided “like the plague” because the truth contained in them is too intense and painful to bear. This truth is that the plague is not only in the killer but, in latent form, exists in all armored humans. It is why people shun knowing what is happening when confronted with the plague and resort to substitute forms of contact and actions that can become an emotional plague reaction in themselves. An example is the politicization of school massacres by demands for banishing the public sale of firearms.

February 22, 2018
Categories: emotional plague . Tags: gun control . Author: Charles Konia, M.D. . Comments: 2 Comments