Psychotherapy Off the Wall

PSYCHOTHERAPY OFF THE WALL, continued
A Total Totalitarian
Now Hector was followed more closely by Felicity. Felicity met him when he too was admitted to the correctional centre. He was in his late teens, and he was considered to be a genuinely dangerous person at that age. Indeed, his remote community considered him sufficiently dangerous that they dispatched a police officer to the correctional centre when Hector was admitted. The officer brought with him a large, two-and-a-half inch thick file describing and picturing Hector’s misdeeds, to supplement the information received through normal channels by the correctional centre’s staff. Hardly in boyish exuberance, he had vandalized, trashed and torched a number of buildings including the school he was attending, several businesses and several houses of people he did not even know. On more than one occasion he had left in his wake a trail of destruction which might have mimicked a maelstrom. But he seemed indifferent to the fact and the extent of the damage he had done – well, perhaps not indifferent, more like proud of his accomplishments.
Again, the DDT revealed the pattern of scores which Felicity had found repeatedly in deep, old brain, ‘complex seizures’ probably affecting the ‘drive centre’. Again, it appeared from his recent, as well as his juvenile, history that the ‘drive centre’ site implicated in the short-circuiting electrical stimulation, would be the ‘rage’ centre – certainly, he had given many, many evidences of towering rages. Again it seemed appropriate to treat him in the biofeedback lab, using SMR conditioning of the EEG and the SCARS conditioning of the GSR, concurrently.