The open introductions at group sessions were only partially for himself. He knew his inmates from their files, the pure and raw facts, and sometimes some more information from psychiatric evaluations. And in the case of Ms. Marlowe a lot more and in that of Ms. Andrews a thousand pages long file. No, the introductions were, for him, much more meant to see how ‘older’ inmates, those residing longer at Mirkwater reacted to new entries. Nobody would even dare touch Ms. Andrews, not so much because of her crimes, but more for her confidence. She owned the room when she spoke. Totally the opposite to the teacher, who was like a deer in headlights.<br/><br/>Dr. Montand cared very little for previous evaluations, he based his findings on his own research and conversational sessions with inmates. He wasn’t a therapist to put a label on a person very easily. It was like Kelly Andrews had just said, own up for your actions, power corrupts. And she was right about that. He had met people, outside of Mirkwater, who had had the best youth, comfortable, parents giving them all they wished, and still they had committed heinous crimes. And there were many examples of people coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, and still had made it in life, against all odds. He had once met a girl online who came from a very poor background, with no apparent chance for her life, but by working hard she’d become a forensic pathologist.<br/><br/>For his dissertation at Cambridge, he had taken psychological surveys as his subject, and had done an actual survey to be included in his dissertation. All 457 participants were successful in life, one way or the other, none of them had ever been convicted of any crimes, but according to the results, at least 14% of the participants would be classed as psychopaths. It completely proved his starting point that a psychological evaluation could and would be interpreted differently by different therapists. He graduated with a first and got offered a place at Princeton for further research.<br/><br/>And he was well aware that a lot of his fellow therapists often had an idea of what label to give a person and then with the results of the evaluation look for those results that would match that initial idea. It infuriated him to no end.<br/><br/>When Kelly Andrews had finished her own introduction, he stood up, looking around the room and addressed a few of the longer serving inmates. ‘Not too long, ladies, we’re nearly finished’. He looked at the four newcomers, he took their faces one more in, a mug-shot was one thing, but an actual facial expression told a thousand words. ‘Next group session is next week Monday, same time. But you four newcomers I want to see individually, during the course of this week. Ms. Marlowe, we already have an appointment for tomorrow 9am. Ms. Williams, I would like to see you Wednesday at 9 in the morning. Ms. Bloom, Thursday at 9 and Ms. Andrews Friday at 9am. That’ll be all for now, my door is always open, as those being guests for longer here will know. You can all go now’.