The emotional plague is defined as destructive human behavior on
the social scene. Often, I come across someone who asks why is
it necessary to use the term emotional plague when we see
destructive human behavior. Since the plague is manifested
everywhere, why can’t we just call it human destructiveness and
leave it at that? The answer that I give is that unlike the
behavior of ordinary neurotic individuals,the emotional plague
individual cannot tolerate the expression of life in others.
Because of this intolerance, his behavior is aimed at destroying
in some way the lives of others. The element of infectiousness
squarely places the emotional plague in the field of medicine as
a legitimate communicable disease. Therefore, the plague must be
understood and treated medically as any other infectious
disease. As an analogy, imagine speaking to someone from the
fifteenth century, a time when one-third of the European
population was wiped out by the bubonic plague and telling them
that the disease is caused by an i