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[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

Psychotic minds...they're like pulp novels.

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[isdisarming.livejournal.com]

Filled with excitement, improbable possibilities, a blond with long legs that wouldn't quit and a smoking private dick?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

...Why yes. Something like that. Either that or they're cheap and filled with gratuitous fodder. They sometimes masquerade as a dark, mysterious and twisting tunnel, but the further you get into them, the more you realize they're all the same. And quite cliche.

[isdisarming.livejournal.com]

You're right, in the end the guy gets the girl, someone gets shot, and someone ends up in jail. It's not so much the finish that's attractive about it, just the whole journey.

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

Have you ever looked into the mind of a deranged murderer? I can assure you it is hardly an attractive journey.

[star-core.livejournal.com]

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You read minds?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

No. I analyze them. I'm a "Medicinæ Doctor". Forensic psychiatry is my specialty.

[star-core.livejournal.com]

Ah, alright.

[elfcross.livejournal.com]

Which pulp novels?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

Does it really matter? They're all the same once you look into them far enough.

[elfcross.livejournal.com]

Ok, yeah. So, totally right at that point, but like, first appearances? If you aren't being over analyzing and stuff, they kinda matter. Because you know, psychotics all seem so different at first, and people will really kinda think you're a generalizing type kind of person.

And, you'd have to get far enough in to look.

[le-gamin.livejournal.com]

Those are the people who believe things that aren't true, right?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

If it were only that simple.

[le-gamin.livejournal.com]

Hmm.


Do you think that sometimes people like that are right and we just don’t know it?

[anson-greene.livejournal.com]

I don't like doctors.

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

*grins mockingly at him* Why not? Is there a personal vendetta here? Have you ever had the wrong leg removed, or are you still fuming from the last time you had to turn your head and cough?

[anson-greene.livejournal.com]

*lights a cigarette and takes a drag*

Something like that.

*stares at him, his head cocked slightly*

You don't look like much of a doctor to me, though. More like a patient.

[paradoxlost.livejournal.com]

Psychotic? Can't help but agree. Now psychopathic... there's something rather more sophisticated, worthy of Umberto Eco.

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

It is minds like those that make my line of work a great deal more interesting.

[paradoxlost.livejournal.com]

Something of a fascinating career from what I've seen. Enlightening!

[campjesus]

Really boring?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

Many psychotics are dangerous paranoids, schizophrenics, and extreme manic depressives. Tedious beyond conception. And very repetitious as one is just like the other.

[campjesus]

I can see that getting extremely tiring.

[animus-nocendi.livejournal.com]

Guilty pleasures of yours?

[drlectermd.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I take no personal pleasure in cheap novels nor the mentally unsound. In fact, in both cases the result is something tedious, empty, commonplace and repetitive.

The latter are a professional interest, actually. I've worked for years with forensic psychiatry, so I have spoken with many a disturbed mind, and frequently had to get inside the mind of truly dangerous psychopathic people.

[animus-nocendi.livejournal.com]

If you find these so-called psychotic minds 'tedious, empty, commonplace and repetitive', maybe you're in the wrong line of work. They're clearly not enough of a challenge for you.