Breaking Bad The Dangers of Despair
Walter White, the central protagonist of the wildly popular TV series Breaking Bad has been described…
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Matthew Perry Friend and Harbinger
Chandler Bing of the TV show “Friends” was known by viewers as a jokester—it was his…
A Personality Trait that Resists the Pull Towards Violence & Cruelty
In my last blog I explored the complexity of cruelty and the social conditions that can…
Complexity of Cruelty – Why wanton evil is so commonplace
Acts of inhumanity and forbidding calamities are in our face daily, in the newspapers we read…
Media and Mental Illness
The Los Angeles Times newspaper report was horrific. In an eruption of primordial rage, 34-year old…
Six factors that motivate random mass murders
On October 27, 2023 in the city of Linden, Maine, a gunman walked into the Simmerhorn…