Adolescent therapist concerned about brutality. At a Wuppertal high school, a 17-year-old is said to have attacked several classmates with stabbing weapons and seriously injured them.
There are often indications very early on in the family when a child is drifting away, says Christian Lüdke. In these families there is often no strong emotional bond, so the children are often unable to develop compassion for others, he says. “They feel powerless and by using violence they transform the feeling of powerlessness into a short-term experience of omnipotence. In the worst case, according to the motto: I am master of life and death”