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If you wouldn't do it to a kitten, why would you do it to a child?
The Yochelson-Samenow research so central to last night's episode is nothing new. These researchers have been putting their claim out there in one form or another since the 1970s. They've got a lot of adherents among those who specialize in criminal populations--which would include neither Melfi nor Kupferberg. Furthermore, both of the good doctors are psychoanalytically oriented and are therefore unlikely even to read Yochelson & Samenow, much less to be persuaded by their argument.
To psychoanalysts, the belief that some people have fixed criminal personalities utterly impervious to change would be a radically new therapeutic paradigm. The idea that either Melfi or Kupferberg would adopt it at this stage of their careers is either a brilliant foreshadowing of the apocalypse or else a misstep on the writers' part.
The Viagra ad? Most men will not go to a doctor--even to save their sex lives--unless prodded by women. The ad is designed to appeal to women who like young, happy, talented, faithful men. That is to say, us.
