Having worked with offenders, I know from my own experience that there are no monsters, demons, or wicked brutes born of evil seeds. There are only children, savaged by those entrusted with their care: left to starve or beaten for not eating, thrown down stairs, tied up and raped, locked in closets for wetting the bed, forced to evacuate in litter boxes, burned in homemade exorcisms, drowned in bathtubs, abandoned in dumpsters. Twenty years later, they are all grown up and, if you are lucky you will meet them in the newspaper instead of the alleyway. And yet, I am convinced that punishment is the very last thing they need. As noted forensic psychiatrist James Gilligan has said, referring to most inmates childhood histories of neglect and abuse: anyone you meet in prison has probably already been punished enough. -- Abby Stein, Ph.D. above excerpt from the article Overturning Convictions: Language, Belief, and Rewriting the Criminal Narrative by Abby Stein, Ph.D. primal-page/stein2.htm The Primal Psychotherapy Page primal-page
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