Marcus Denning wrote:
i had an interesting conversation with a clinical psychologist the other
day -- he's done a lot of work with people like Androcles and Hammond, both
net kooks and people not on the web.

he says that these people create a 'closed system' that can't be penetrated
even by individual psychotherapy -- that the only way into their world is
through group therapy with an experienced leader and that even then the
results aren't consistent.


Presumably Hammond got that during is time at the mental
institution (see D. Kossy "Kooks"). It doesn't seem to have
helped.

-jc


just thought that was interesting.