The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

by Kerry Daynes

Telling our personal stories, naming and acknowledging our experiences, is fundamentally how human beings make sense of our world. For most of us that means talking with our friends or family. For others it’s therapy or counselling – the premise is the same: through the simple act of talking we process and understand ourselves, and others. When we don’t or can’t tell our stories, they manifest in other ways. Emotions need a voice. Without it they seep out eventually.

Listen hard enough and even the quietest prisons are booming with the deafening sound of men not talking.