[goldstategop]

Yup. Psychopaths in particular are resistant to therapy. They're convinced they're better than any one else and have no sense of shame or remorse and appealing to their conscience is useless so if you put them in this setting, they're basically going through the motions. It has to be faced up to not every one can be helped or reformed. Some people are better off in prison, both for their own sakes and that of the rest of society.

[WaterDragon]

I knew a psychopathic young woman once, very beautiful and apparently gracious. She and her boyfriend sexually tortured her two-year-old daughter, though the mother denied her part. The baby was placed with a grandmother, the boyfriend in jail (served less than three years). The woman fooled absolutely everyone -- therapists, lawyers, judges and social workers. She was given custody of the little girl and moved out of state. I learned years later that the little girl, grown into a teenager, along with a couple of friends, tortured and killed an elderly woman for a few dollars. The girl's mother was still fooling people, now convincing them she was the heart-broken mother of a dangerous juvenile delinquent. The court, reporters, everyone bought it all. That woman is still out there somewhere, never held accountable, last seen in California. The her daughter will be in prison the rest of her life.