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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
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I have just finished a book by the famous mystery writer Jonathan Kellerman who is also a child psychologist who practiced for many years at the best known hospital in LA...I can't think of it...Cedars Sinai? This book is not fiction but he is writing on whether there really are kids who cannot change from their path to harm others. This is a sort of textbook, and it was written more than ten years ago, but it does discuss I think the first school shooting. He seems to think that some people cannot be changed, or rehabilitated and that there is only one path for the innocent people and it is to keep these kids locked up. He of course being a very fair and intelligent person does not make "blanket" statements like I just did, and he discusses many forms of mental illness and of course many mentally ill people CAN and are helped with therapy and medication, but some cannot be helped he thinks. I have been thinking so too. As a college student back in the 60's we were schooled in "behavioral modification" and "redirection" and "positive self image". Now I think that most of us are stuck with the personality we are born with and really can't be altered too much in any direction.
Just thinking and Musing. Here is the book;
I am no Adler or Freud. Just an old lady musing.