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MUSINGS on MURDER, PSYCHOSIS and STIGMA
( BASED ON AN EXTRACT FROM MY BOOK “KILLER INSTINCT – Having a Mind for Murder” Many people in society tend to link murder to mental illness. It is an understandable reaction for people to believe that for any person to murder another, a degree of mental illness must be involved. But the fact is…
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WHERE HAS CONVERSION DISORDER GONE?
I would like to take you on a little journey of history and personal reminiscing. HISTORY In the early 20th Century, Freud and other psychoanalysts, who came from a European culture where psychiatry and neurology were closely allied, introduced the concept of the Unconscious Mind and described the many ways in which a person’s life, attitudes…
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Friends and Family, Kith and Kin – the Most Likely to Do You In.
“The bodies of a man and woman, and that of a baby, have been found in a house on a rural property south of Darwin in the Northern Territory, when police carried out a welfare check after a tip-off”. Such a tragic headline story has once again appeared in our media. A follow-up report indicated…
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On International Women’s Day – What can we do about violent men?
Powerful statements today, from wise and wonderful women in our society, advocate for better services for women to deal with violence and sexual assault against women. But prevention of violent and sexual assault against women also requires more attention to the violent men who are usually the perpetrators. Much of the current approach to violence…
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Putin the Paranoid Despot
Putin is singing from the familiar Paranoid Despot Songbook The unfolding tragedy In Ukraine illustrates that Vladimir Putin is well down the path previously followed by many paranoid narcissistic psychopathic leaders, and like most of his predecessors has reached the stage of complete self-deception and loss of insight. There may well be no going back…
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The Paranoid Pandemic
/ How has paranoia become so widespread and obvious in these pandemic times? Paranoia is not an infectious disease, but it may be contagious. It can grow in favourable circumstances and take advantage of modern technology as a persuasive evangelical tool. Paranoia exists along a spectrum, ranging from eccentric, sometimes even amusing, personality traits, through…
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A Pandemic of Paranoia
While paranoia is not infectious in the usual sense, it is certainly contagious. It can grow in favourable circumstances and take advantage of modern technology as a persuasive evangelical tool. Paranoia is not classified as an infectious disease. It is not caused by a virus or a bacterium. It does not spread through infectious faeces…
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