Theodore Dalrymple

British psychiatrist and cultural critic (pen name of Anthony Daniels) who worked in a Birmingham prison and inner-city hospital and writes on the culture of poverty, welfare dependency, and the intellectual corruption of the chattering classes — Life at the Bottom, Our Culture What's Left of It.

Provides the most sustained clinical account of how welfare culture and liberal intellectual excuses destroy working-class self-responsibility — his prison and hospital patients demonstrate that the ideology of victimhood actively prevents the development of moral agency that would make genuine improvement possible.