John Bradford: Father of Canadian Forensic Psychiatry

[摘要] John Bradfordforensic psychiatrysubspecializationsecondary stress symptomsThe stupefying numbness overtook my mind as I watched the Russell Williams videotapes. The five or six hours in the Ontario Provincial Police headquarters in Orillia blurred, abbreviated in time. At the end of the session, I left the headquarters, walked to my car, with my mind full of the video images I had just endured. I left to drive back to Ottawa. About 30 minutes later, an emotional storm took over where I was crying uncontrollably, shaking, and felt weak and confused. Suddenly I believed my whole life’s work was a failure. I felt I had wasted my life; I felt useless; lost. I pulled over to gain composure (I’m not sure exactly how long), and the ‘emotional storm’ subsided. I continued my journey believing that my work in researching and treating sexual deviation was a failure and there was no hope for any recovery. I did not realize it, but this was the first step of a painful journey of posttraumatic stress disorder. This changed my life forever (Bradford J, personal communication, December 18, 2021).

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