A recent headline in The Conversation notes that more and more people are citing “narcissism’ as a legitimate cause for separation or divorce. But couldn’t this be a form of narcissism, itself? An obsession with the very same self- serving attitude that they are accusing the other of? Nigel […]
In Focus
In Focus
Covid has worsened mental health
60% of the inhabitants of the three Americas suffer from anxiety or depression and their situation is unlikely to improve soon because the conditions necessary for that have been changed by the pandemic. In fact, in almost 90% of countries, psychotherapy and assessment services have been interrupted. That is […]
Nicaragua (2): Demonization, prelude to aggression
The intense, intoxicating and well-orchestrated worldwide demonization campaign against the FSLN government has inevitably influenced and obfuscated the vision of many individuals of goodwill who may have a healthy concern about the media-generated torrent of allegations of undemocratic behaviour attributed to the Nicaraguan government. Francisco Dominguez June 2016) […]
Living in Nazi Germany
Jack Nicholson, in the 1975 movie “The passenger”, plays a character who switches his identity with that of someone recently deceased. Sean Sheehan A novel with the same title, “The passenger”, was written almost four decades earlier but remained virtually unknown for seventy years. Its main character is […]
The importance of trust
This article came about after reading a surprising source―an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony. Nigel Pocock At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had not […]
















