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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2021, 08:58:32 PM

Title: 'What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?'
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2021, 08:58:32 PM

I knew that the experiment had happened but the detail is extraordinary


https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/oak-ridge-st-thomas-psychiatric-treatment

Title: Re: 'What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?'
Post by: Gordon on April 13, 2021, 09:30:56 PM

That is a seriously scary read, and it seems unreal that these events occurred at all, and that alarm bells didn't start ringing somewhere  much earlier than they did.

Title: Re: 'What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?'
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 13, 2021, 09:36:10 PM

Quote from: Gordon on April 13, 2021, 09:30:56 PM

That is a seriously scary read, and it seems unreal that these events occurred at all, and that alarm bells didn't start ringing somewhere  much earlier than they did.

And yet not the only time this sort of thing happens

Title: Re: 'What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?'
Post by: ekim on April 14, 2021, 09:24:28 AM

.... or a surgeon ? ..... "This study showed that consultants at teaching hospitals score higher on a scale of psychopathic personality than DGH con-sultants, who in turn score higher than the general population. The prevalence of stress immunity as the overriding personality trait in consultants may better facilitate patient care"
https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/rcsbull.2015.331

Title: Re: 'What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?'
Post by: SusanDoris on April 14, 2021, 01:57:38 PM

Quote from: Gordon on April 13, 2021, 09:30:56 PM

That is a seriously scary read, and it seems unreal that these events occurred at all, and that alarm bells didn't start ringing somewhere  much earlier than they did.

\I read this post before clicking on the link - I don't think I will now.