Repost from April 14, 2015 - Theodore Dalrymple (The Heritage Foundation) - Modern psychology is one of the most powerful intellectual authorities of our time. Its appeal derives in no small part from its ability to absolve us of responsibility for our misdeeds, vices, and failings. It’s never our fault. It’s the fault of our subconscious drives, our parents, or our genes. And the solution to our behavioral problems lies not in reforming our character, but in medicines and therapy that can cure the diseases and disorders diagnosed by psychology.
My Tidbit: I have felt for a while that sermons sound very much like psychology. I do agree that it can be a way for people to skirt around their responsibility for their actions and behaviors.
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Anthony Malcolm Daniels (born 11 October 1949), also known by the "pen name Theodore Dalrymple", is a conservative English cultural critic, prison physician, and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked at City Hospital, Birmingham, and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.
Daniels is a contributing editor to the City Journal of New York, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow. In addition to City Journal, his work has appeared in: The British Medical Journal, The Times, New Statesman, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, National Review, New English Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Axess Magasin. He is the author of a number of books, including Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass; Our Culture, Embargo and other stories, What's Left of It and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.
In his writing, Daniels frequently argues that the socially liberal and progressive views prevalent within Western intellectual circles minimize the responsibility of individuals for their own actions and undermine traditional mores, contributing to the formation within prosperous countries of an underclass afflicted by endemic violence, criminality, sexually transmitted diseases, welfare dependency, and drug abuse. Much of Dalrymple's writing is based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill.
In 2011, Dalrymple was awarded the Prize for Liberty by the Flemish classical-liberal think-tank Libera!
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Theodore Dalrymple (Law and Liberty): https://lawliberty.org/author/theodore-dalrymple/
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