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Opinion: What a 25-year-old book by a British psychiatrist can teach us about ‘life at the bottom’ in America today
['Naomi Schaefer Riley']
Deseret News
Theodore Dalrymple, the nom de plume for British physician and psychiatrist Anthony Daniels, has written for decades about his patients in prisons and hospitals.
The nurses too, writes Dalrymple, object when he guesses with a reasonable degree of certainty about which patients are abusers and which are abused.
Dalrymple writes: “A stubborn refusal to face inconvenient facts, no matter how obvious, now pervades our attitude toward relations between the sexes.
Over and over, Dalrymple’s patients keep repeating the same behaviors that lead them down these terrible paths.
“Instead of pouring money into endless programs for the poor,” Henderson writes, “elites should share what they know.