Our Time of Damaged Thought
(WorldNews France)

I Maurice Berger, the French child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor at the National School of Magistrates, has spent some four decades working with violent and delinquent children and adolescents in institutions like the Centre &eaigu;ducatif ferm&eaigu;. Since the early 1990s he has warned of a steady increase in gratuitous violence, only to find, as he put in a recent interview with Le Figaro, that “the attitude of successive governments has been implicitly to think ‘after me, the flood,` only the flood is now here.” It is simply astonishing to hear that in France a criminal complaint is now filed for an act of gratuitous violence roughly every two minutes, indicating an outbreak of civil...