ABSTRACT
People have been trying to cure physical and mental pain from time immemorial. Since ancient and perhaps pre-ancient times there have been healers. Bion feels that psychoanalysis is embryonic and that there is an embryonic aspect of the human psyche. There have been proliferations of "schools" of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically related, derived or informed therapies. The term "psychopathy" is not used anymore. It has been changed to "sociopathy." Maybe both terms should be used, pointing to social and psychical aspects of loss of feeling for others in the process of trying to get what one thinks one wants. The resilience and resistance and well nigh universality of psychopathic tendencies are knocking on our door, knocking on our psyches and, one hope, in time will stimulate response systems to meet it. Affective attitude plays a role in how capacities are used. It may be no accident that we are in an Age of Psychopathy and an Age of Sensitivity.
