MODERN AGE FALL 2015 Dalrymple notes and laments the self-love intoxicant now served up in classrooms and in therapeutic encounters. One is not to be identified as a failure; even red ink should be avoided in grading scripts! The mother of the repeat offender remains faithful to the view that "the real him" is a fine young man somehow acting in a manner not true to his good nature. Dalrymple even finds a patient relieved by the fact that her husband doesn't choke her often. These are the evidentiary fragments that support the larger verdict regarding the fate of morality itself under the dead weight of psycho-social thinking. Inevitably, this thinking infiltrates those institutions established to preserve a decent and civic form of life. Now refitted by psycho-social thought, the adjudicative arena comes to function not as the place that renders punishment justified and proportionate but rather as a preclinical mode of assessment designed to "treat" the offender for the conditions that allegedly promoted the offense. Dalrymple recognizes the utter incompatibility between a system of justice that sets determinate sentences and a therapeutic form of "justice" that incarcerates until the inmate is "cured" (67ff). It is worth pausing here to consider a single case that speaks volumes about Dalrymple's concerns and criticisms. Forty years ago a number of technical refinements and experimental findings encouraged another attempt to achieve desired psychiatric outcomes by way of surgery, psychosurgery. The earlier results of lobotomies produced more than an acceptable share of morbid outcomes, but the new techniques were sharply focused, sparing all but a negligible number of brain cells, and based not on the removal but on the stimulation of specific sites. A leader in this field was Dr. Robert Heath at Tulane. One patient, a homosexual 126