Who Named the Knife by Linda Spalding

Author:Linda Spalding [Spalding, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781551997278
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2007-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

At this point the discussion moves on to Maryann’s report card from the prison. She’s been discipline-free. She’s participated in psychotherapy groups and attended AA and NA groups. She is secretary to the Mexican American Association and has received a two-year college degree.

A second commissioner discusses Maryann’s psychiatric report, which states that she has normal posture and gait, normal clothing, personal hygiene, mild to moderate defensiveness, and lack of insight. The second commissioner says, “What do you think Dr. Francis meant by that?”

MARYANN: I’m not sure. I probably do tend to get defensive at times …

COMMISSIONER: In terms of your being defensive … blaming … it appeared to me that your crime partner had a lot to do with the particular crime spree. And you could have left. You could have left in Hawaii and so forth. And you came across kind of like that. But that’s my opinion. That’s how I saw it. It seemed like it was William Acker’s show and you were there for the ride, but you were kind of scared and so forth. I saw it that way. You don’t have to agree with that, but that’s how I saw it in terms of how the psychiatrist indicated.

MARYANN: I guess. I’m not saying that I don’t accept responsibility. I know I am responsible to a degree for my actions.

COMMISSIONER: You say to a degree. How much to a degree? The conclusion on that report is compulsive personality disorder with passive-aggressiveness and dependent features. It says you appear to be tightly emotionally bound to your parent-child relationship even at the age of thirty-two. It says you are not individuated from your parents. What did Dr. Francis mean by that?

MARYANN: I’m not real sure other than my parents are very important to me.

COMMISSIONER: Maybe you’re not an independent thinker. It says here the thrust of psychological development would be to begin addressing your feelings, your self-identity, and your relationship to other people. Dr. Francis says her efforts to get you to go in that direction were analogous to trying to get you to telephone Mars.

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