Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
In an attempt to establish whether it could be effective to treat serious and high risk offenders the United Kingdom Government launched a programme in 1999. This established treatment centres in two high security prisons and two high security hospitals and a further four medium secure hospitals.
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Famous quotes containing the words dangerous and, dangerous, severe, personality and/or disorder:
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)