I realised that people found it much harder to picture the average patient as someone who was unfortunate, someone who had been a victim for most of their life, who was never given the start in life that they needed. What they wanted to believe was that some people were born degenerates, or that they were evil to the core. That wasn’t my experience. In Whitmore I worked with many patients suffering from antisocial personality disorder—or sociopaths, if you want to call them that—and discovered that most of the residents under my care had been abused by a significant person in their life,
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