This article has some more info on how he was raised? and his 'condition':
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ry.html?algtrack=mixedrecfill-1&tid=btm_rex_1
.......Prosecutors had asked that the boy be sentenced to 20 years in prison, but Gary Miller, the psychologist who testified in his behalf, recommended counseling. Miller said that the boy had an unhealthy relationship with his wealthy parents, who used him as a tool and a hostage to extract concessions from each other.
Meanwhile, they neglected to teach Miller that dangerous behavior could have serious consequences, according to the psychologist.
He never learned that sometimes you dont get your way, Miller said. He had the cars and he had the money. He had freedoms that no young man would be able to handle.
He used the term affluenza, which describes the ennui and depravity of certain very rich people, and which was popularized by psychologist Oliver James in a 2007 book by the same title. One reviewer found Jamess critique of a materialist society to be convincing:
Affluenza, as defined by James, is clearly recognisable as our way of life. It spreads because it feeds on itself; when you try to make yourself feel better by buying a car, or bulking up in the gym, or spraying on a fake tan, or having a facelift, you actually make yourself feel worse, which makes you want to buy more things. . . .
More at link.....
