Date
11-13-2024
Department
School of Behavioral Sciences
Degree
Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling (EdD)
Chair
David Hirschman
Keywords
attachment, character, conscience, correcting force, design, disordered behavior, double standard, enmity, fun, hypocrisy, predator, theory of mind
Disciplines
Christianity | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Doyle, James Samuel, "A Proposal for a Biblical School of Thought on the Value of Aggressive Disordered Behavior and Why It Exists" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6196.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6196
Abstract
Disordered behavior, within this research, is defined as rigid or inflexible behavior deemed destructive toward self and/or others. Examined further, predatorial disordered behavior describes and is defined as behavior benefiting the actor at the expense of others, even when the benefit is small and may only serve to enhance the ego of the predator. Nonetheless, the cost to the recipient of this behavior is generally severe manifesting itself in many maladaptive ways including without limitation a lack of self-worth, a need to control, and the presence of chronic anger or strong emotional reaction to perceived injustices. Due to a mask of sanity that disguises the destructive force of this predatorial behavior, counselors are often unaware of its presence. To better understand and make more widely known the predatorial aspects of disordered behavior, and to facilitate a Biblical school of thought on the matter, this research explores the etiology of this initiating behavior as well as the design behind the reason this behavior exists. The following research relies on legal concepts, logic, and what limited available research there is as well as inductive reasoning to determine the value of this phenomenon that serves both good and evil. This research presents mental illness and enmity as synonymous. Enmity and its consequential mental illness were unleashed in the fall of man, and represent the war between the Spirit and the flesh. This paper explores in depth how the flesh attacks the conscience through double standards which can then lead to an escalation of enmity and the resulting predatorial disordered behavior. Once created, the role of the predator then becomes enforcement of the separation between the Spirit and the flesh as shown in this research.
