Guns in the Mental Health Clinic: Not Therapeutic: Anne Skomorkowsky
"Unfortunately, the psychiatrist may be unable to help. Psychiatrists can offer consultation, medication, psychotherapy and hospitalization. None is of any use to the antisocial patient, who is famously untreatable. He needs social support, food, and money, but has a habit of devaluing and destroying everything he sees. The sociopath cannot accept goodness. It is too painful a reminder of the good things that he has lost; in particular, the love of his parents. If the sociopath accepted a doctor’s or caseworker’s kindness, he would be forced to confront the way his parents, who should have been good to him, were not good enough."--Anne Skomrkowsky
The mental health system is just another source of disappointment for the sociopath. The psychiatrist personifies his hopelessness, as nothing he has to offer is worthwhile. The case worker can only do so much for a client who scorns her help and destroys whatever she can provide, and she becomes another object of the sociopath’s rage" -Anne Skomrkowsky
Funmi Tofowomo Okelola
-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives.
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