Do people really love themselves? Some writers think that people do not love themselves, saying that true self-love, in the sense of self-acceptance, is learned, often very painfully so. I agree.   Nigel Pocock   Part of the difficulty is that people confuse self-esteem and self-love. I concur, with Scott […]

This looks like a highly provocative and paradoxical title, and so it is. What we present here is an outworking of Ofer Zur’s article (2006), The Pathology of Victimhood.   Nigel Pocock     Zur argues that the tendency to ignore the psychology of victims arises from a fear of […]

‘Islamophobia’, a pseudo medical term, designed to silence the arguments of opponents, by socially ostracising them? A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear. Could it be that those who use the term, are really the ones who have the ‘phobia’, a phobia about not being able to handle the arguments of […]

A slump in the emotions recently notified me that my old enemy, depression, was back in town. Never completely free from its tendrils, now there was a severe grip of the inner darkness.    Steve Latham   Such a mix of metaphors, to describe a complex mesh of feelings. But […]