Example of Emperor Syndrome

The emperor syndrome It is the child's personality disorder. In it children defy the authority of their parents and lose all forms of respect for them. Then they end up disrespecting everyone around them. Also called oppositional defiant disorder.
In this disorder, the child believes that he has sufficient authority to command and challenge his parents first and then everyone around him. They mistreat, disobey, scandalize, deliberately annoy others. They frequently and senselessly enrage. They demand attention and pampering and when they do not get it they are usually vindictive and aggressive. They are jealous and mistreat the object of their jealousy, usually younger siblings.
They argue even with adults and refuse to obey any order or request that they give them. They blame others for any mistakes of their own and never take real responsibility. They are generally angry, or upset. They tend to hold resentments and desires for revenge, which they often carry out without measuring consequences.

They can retaliate by mistreating animals or young children. Breaking or stealing things that they know are dear to the adults they challenge, such as hiding keys, glasses, purse or any other belongings from their parents If they know any secret of the parents they do not hesitate to use it against them. They lie and criticize without touching their hearts, they demand things that are outside the parents' financial budget, and they do not leave them alone until they are given.
In order for Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Emperor Syndrome to be properly diagnosed, must be someone under the age of eighteen, last at least six months with this irritant attitude. And the disorders must exceed what is normal in children with their age and development. You must also have four of these characteristics for you to meet this disorder. All these behaviors must be independent of the child's state of mind or that he suffers from a psychotic disorder. It is not the same as conduct disorder and not antisocial if it is someone of legal age.
Some people consider that emperor syndrome It is caused by permissive and spiritless parents, who begin by consenting to the child by giving him things without to make an effort, avoiding any suffering and allowing them to follow behaviors that later they they will regret. They allow you to throw tantrums in public, mistreat others reaching physical aggression, and the form they take the parents to calm them is to obey them and indulge their whims, with which the children reinforce their behavior destructive.
They are generally children who at some point were or continue to be very spoiled by adults, and who at some point moment that attention disappears or is insufficient for them and they seek to have adult control for their own purposes. At other times it is one of the parents who is reflected in the son and pampers him to the extreme, turning the child into a tyrant.
Many of these children, since their attitude is not corrected, grow up with an antisocial attitude, which can worsen in extreme cases, to forms of criminality. That is why it is essential that parents take them to therapy. According to the therapist's criteria, consenting and bent parents will also need therapy to regain control of the family and help the child to resolve this behavior, since without attention, the situation tends to become much more violent, the children reaching out to hit their parents and those around them, and even to kill the object of their jealousy, be it a parent, brother, cousin or any little one who distracts adults from attend to it.
Example of emperor syndrome:
This attitude can be observed in the movie the good son or "the evil angel"; In this film, the son (Macaulay Culkin) is Henry, who at one point tries to kill his sister, his mother and his cousin Mark (Elijah Word); who is able to discover it.
Henry's ability and his broad IQ accelerate the damage caused by emotional emptiness, making it clear what a child suffers from emperor syndrome can come to do.