The syndrome of " Amok " is found in the DSM-IV TR.

Amok episodes of this kind normally end with the attacker being killed by bystanders or committing suicide, eliciting theories that amok may be a form of intentional suicide in cultures where suicide is heavily stigmatized.

Amok is often described as a culture-bound ( or culture-specific ) syndrome, which is a psychological condition whose manifestation is strongly shaped by cultural factors.

Amok, the rarer form, is believed to stem from rage, insult, or a vendetta against a person or society for a wide variety of reasons.

One element from Yesteryear that has become canon by depiction within Star Trek: The Original Series is the Vulcan city of ShiKahr, depicted in a background scene wherein Kirk, Spock and McCoy walk across a natural stone bridge ( first depicted in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) in the remastered " Amok Time ".

Juggling is often used in circus arts, such as in Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok Street juggler on stilts at a festival

The other option is extreme shock ; in the TOS episode " Amok Time ", Spock believed he had killed James T. Kirk, his " best friend ", thus providing sufficient shock to nullify the effects of pon farr.

It is not established whether females have the same option, and T ' Pring stated in " Amok Time " that a koon-ut-kal-if-fee challenge was the only way she could legally divorce Spock.

The DVD commentary for " Amok Time " says that TOS writer D. C. Fontana named the Vulcan god of death " Shariel ", a bust of whom is seen in Spock's quarters.

Zweig is best known for his novellas ( notably The Royal Game, Amok, Letter from an Unknown Woman – filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls ), novels ( Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl ) and biographies ( notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac ).

" Amok Time " is the second season premiere episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

In 1995, Sentenced released their ' break through ' album, Amok, which is considered by many to be their best work.

* Amok trey ()-This is probably Cambodia's most well-known dish amongst visitors ; there are similar dishes found in neighboring countries.

Tanatah is also the head of the rebel group called the Amok.

The Incal is then sought by many factions: the Bergs ; the corrupt and decadent government of the great pit-city ; the rebel group Amok ; and the Church of Industrial Saints ( commonly referred to as the Techno-Technos or the Technopriests ), a sinister technocratic cult which worships the Dark Incal.

His biggest novel is Amok, but his best-selling and perhaps most known book was Palesse Robinsons.

Pon farr, a situation introduced in " Amok Time " where Vulcans " must have sex or die ", is a device used in some stories such as " The Ring of Soshern ", a pre-1976 fan fiction where Kirk and Spock are marooned on an uncharted planet.

Homer and Barney's duel is a reference to the classic Star Trek episode " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", complete with one of Star Treks fight themes ( originally from the episode " Amok Time ") and the NASA administrators betting on the combatants in " quatloos ".

*: Tina Richerson is based in New York City, and is a member of the Circus Amok Orchestra and other groups.

In some editions, the story titles a collection that also includes " Amok ", " Burning Secret ", " Fear ", and " Letter from an Unknown Woman ".

The accompanying spoken blessing, " Live long and prosper " ( Dif-tor heh smusma in Vulcan language as spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) also appeared for the first time in " Amok Time ", scripted by Theodore Sturgeon.

She was also a focus of Tami Gold's documentary Juggling Gender and Circus Amok has been the subject of numerous documentary films.

Amok may also refer to:

" In Season 2, Episode 1 (" Amok Time ", 1967 ), Captain Kirk tells Spock, " As one of Finagle's Laws puts it: ' Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine.

Amok was, at one time, jailed after capture by rival superhero group The Crusaders.

Amok has been more closely associated with psychosis, personality disorders, bipolar disorder, and delusions.

A further revival and expansion came in the 1990s with several small independent publishers emerging, such as l ' Association, Amok, Fréon ( The latter two later merged into Frémok ).

She appeared in the Star Trek webisode Of Gods and Men in the final scene as a Vulcan priestess initiating a marriage ceremony between Uhura and Vulcan native Stonn ( a character from the episode " Amok Time ", played by original actor Lawrence Montaigne ).

It was formed by the union of the former publishers Amok ( France ) and Fréon ( Belgium ).

It was co-published, as a 240 page paperback, by Amok Press and Loompanics Unlimited in 1989 ( ISBN 0-941693-03-1 ).

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.