Darth Vader Was Mentally Ill, Researchers Say

[johnmiic]

But what about Jar-Jar?

'Star Wars' Darth Vader Needed Therapy, So Don't Blame the Dark Side - ABC News

[jimsmegos]

So, how do I go about getting a gig writing observations like this? Seriously this type of expose into Vader's psyche would be a great rant for Dante and Randal in "Clerks III- Relaunch Kevin's Career"

[samurainoir]

This is kind of interesting.

As for which Batman criminals were actually criminally insane, surprisingly few made the cut.

Maximillian Zeus, who believed himself to be the ancient Greek deity, was deemed mentally ill, considering that delusion. But the Joker, the notorious Mad Hatter of the Batman series, was not.

Although he had an extreme anti-social personality disorder, his highly planned scheming belies a knowledge of right and wrong. Were he in the real world, he would likely be put in the slammer, not in the psych ward, they said.

Although one area that Denny O'Neil mined in his writing (and many writers he edited including Greg Rucka), was the work of Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
Thomas Szasz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The myth of mental illness: "Mental illness" is an expression, a metaphor that describes an offending, disturbing, shocking, or vexing conduct, action, or pattern of behavior, such as schizophrenia, as an "illness" or "disease". Szasz wrote: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic."[7] While people behave and think in ways that are very disturbing, and that may resemble a disease process (pain, deterioration, response to various interventions), this does not mean they actually have a disease. To Szasz, disease can only mean something people "have," while behavior is what people "do". Diseases are "malfunctions of the human body, of the heart, the liver, the kidney, the brain" while "no behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. That's not what diseases are" Szasz cites drapetomania as an example behavior which many in society did not approve of, being labeled and widely cited as a 'disease' and likewise with women who did not bow to men's will as having "hysteria"[8] Psychiatry actively obscures the difference between (mis)behavior and disease, in its quest to help or harm parties to conflicts. By calling certain people "diseased", psychiatry attempts to deny them responsibility as moral agents, in order to better control them.

[jwyblejr]

The Joker is not mentally ill? The man would shoot whoever said that just to prove that he is.

[MIB41]

Hey anyone who can work out a licensing deal to sell his likeness through Kenner toys for over 30 years IS BRILLIANT!

[galaxyexplorer42]

Well....while DARTH Vader may have been the more successful brother, his younger much less successful brother Chad Vader, although only a grocery store stock boy, may have been the more mentally stable....check out youtube for "Chad Vader"........