Feeling Good All of us need to feel good. People, politicians, teachers, movie-star personalities, all of us have this fundamental need. All or most are driven by this need – even if you or I think they’ve run astray. Even psychologists need to feel good, and for them they need to feel they make a difference in their treatment of patients. Rarely, will one tell us they tried and tried but nothing worked. Indeed, they need affirmation, often self-affirmation, of treatment success. And this makes them feel good. Only a few psychologists are in possession of the power to suggest the release criminally troubled (or insane) patients back into the world of us all. To feel good they have been successful in their treatments is not enough in a such a totally subjective environment. We must have strict criteria for the release of troubled people, particularly those with a proclivity to violence. What can be done is unclear to me. But something should be done.
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