Surgery of violence. VI. Gunshot wounds of the limbs.

Abstract

Finally, there are hospitals such as the Henderson in Sutton, Surrey, which specialize in the treatment of people with per- sonality disorders who can be either offenders or non-offenders.The principles and philosophy of the therapeutic community obtain.The administration is permissive.Decision making is shared between staff and patients with a view to making the latter assume some responsibility for shaping the world around them.Some measure of success is claimed.The least that can be said for these hospitals is that they are prepared to go on trying.Freud, or whoever it was, claimed to be able to cure the abnormal "normal" man.Would that he had left us some clue to how to cure the normal "abnormal" man.