Stonehenge

Finally made it to Stonehenge! Ben and I went to the men's house this morning to meet with Cheri and the staff. Cheri was lovely, as promised, and very keen to help. She had no problem at all with the idea of my doing some testing on the women (we emphasized that for this round, no drug-related stimuli will be involved) and has promised to ask her supervisor about it. I left my email address and am hoping that Cheri will email me soon to let me know what Heather (supervisor) said. Then I hope to either meet with both of them, if they'd prefer that, or go straight out to the women's centre and meet the staff and residents there. With any luck, I may be able to start testing shortly after that. Cheri seemed to think it definitely would not be a problem, which is very encouraging.

Also learned a little about the therapeutic treatment centre model. I am pretty ignorant about anything to do with actual treatment, having never taken anything clinical at all, so it was interesting. I was then given a tour of the buildings by a resident called Mike R. That was an eye-opener. Besides the tour, he told me a lot about what kind of things he is doing in the course of his treatment, and a LOT about his anger issues and the deeper issues that cause them (eg. hurt is acted out as anger). It was pretty interesting. Bit hard to know what to say, but I guess that will come with time. Anyway, everyone made me feel very comfortable (although it is a bit of a weird atmosphere if you're an outsider) and I think testing there will probably work out, since the staff are so helpful.