In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the sentimentality that is suffocating modern life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the under-privileged, fighting poverty, assisting the less able, and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Drawing on his long experience as a doctor, as well as work with thousands of criminals and the mentally disturbed as a prison psychiatrist, Dalrymple shows what happens if we feel our way rather than dunk well. Theodore Dalrymple is a psychiatrist who writes psychological assessments in murder trials. After working as a doctor in Africa and the Gilbert Islands, he returned to England and worked in prison hospitals in the Midlands, Birmingham and the East End of London. He is a regular contributor to, among others, The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street journal, City Journal, British MedicalJournal and Australian. He is the author of several books, including the acclaimed The Pleasure of Thinking, Litter and The Knife Went In: Memoirs of a Prison Doctor.