A professor of psychiatry is lecturing to mental health professionals on the issue of predicting dangerousness. Which of the following points will
he want to impress upon these people?
A) Patients are more likely to be dangerous to others than themselves.
B) When dangerous, patients are likely to be dangerous to themselves.
C) Patients are equally likely to be dangerous to themselves and to others.
D) The only reliable predictor of future dangerousness is the presence of brain damage.
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