Histrionic Personality Disorder: Symptoms, Diagnosis and the End of a Category

High Sensitivity and HSP: What research on the Highly Sensitive Person Scale reveals

ADHD and Creativity: What the 2025 study on people with ADHD really shows

Antidepressants, Suicidal Behaviour and Risk in Adolescents and Young Adults

Humiliation in Psychology: Shame, Offence and Why There Is No Diagnosis

Obsession: Meaning, Origin and the Difference from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Frances Tustin and ‘autistic withdrawal’

The Four Excuses for Heartlessness: The ‘Western Media When Tragedy Hits’ Meme

The ChatGPT File: Why the meme about secret psychological profiling actually creates your profile

The Unconscious of the Empire (Part 2): Mass Attachment, Denied Mourning and the Imperial Superego

The Empire’s Unconscious (Part 1): Denial, Collective Narcissism and the Creation of Enemy Images

Spiralism: When chatbots started preaching

Japan, Hikikomori and Karoshi: What happens when a society is sacrificed to the market

Autism as an excuse? Diagnosis, reasonableness and responsibility in the workplace

AI training using second-hand books: Why AI firms are buying up second-hand bookshops and the books are being shredded

Psychoanalysis and the Subject: The ‘I’, the ‘Self’ and the Subject in Psychotherapy

Taylor Swift, Psychology and the Desire for a Famous Partner

Performative Mental Illness: When Self-Diagnosis Becomes Self-Presentation

AI as a secular oracle: Why the critique of sovereignty merely reoccupies the throne

A Critical Look at the Enneagram Test: Nine Types, a Comforting Myth

Trauma Economy and Catharsis Culture: How Suffering Becomes a Product (Darren McGarvey)

The Psychology of Severance: The Split Working Self

Nolan’s Odyssey: The $250 Million Story of Nobody’s Dog

Jouissance in Lacan: Why the Mind Clings to Its Own Suffering

Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically: Myth, Simulacrum and Self-Exposure

From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector: Why the ‘Large Behaviour Model’ Threatens Psychotherapy

Homoeroticism in Religion: Celibacy, Mysticism and the Priest’s Body

Evil AI? Why AI companies are warning against their own models

The Uncanny: Why AI Faces Make Us Shudder

The Superego: the inner authority that can never be satisfied

Religion, Transcendence and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

No Time for Anything but Love

Fight Club, psychoanalytically: the split self and male powerlessness

The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender: Why a Fundamental Psychoanalytic Concept Is Constantly Misunderstood

Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective: Why nobody chooses grandiosity

‘That is Just the Way I Am’: Why an Entire Culture Loves the MBTI, Even Though Science Rejects It

What is Hedonism? Definition, Consumption and the Neoliberal Obligation to Enjoyment

Why We Love Dr House: Narcissism and Cynicism

Interrupted Enjoyment: Why adverts in paid streaming services appeal to us so much

Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations: A Comparison of Rosin’s Restaurants, Farmer Wants a Wife, GNTM and Gordon Ramsay

Rousseau’s Émile: Freedom as a Technique of Domination

Maxxing fatigue: Maxxing with no end in sight, or the end of self-optimisation?

Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Epstein and the politics of repression

Glamour as a Symptom: Kitsch, Class and the Spectacle

Fußball-WM 2026

Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing: discourse creates the trend

Toxic terms in everyday life: therapy-speak & pop psychology relationships

Suicide by Proxy: Indirect Suicide and Infanticide

Enhanced Games, Dark Enlightenment and Tech-Eugenics

Emotional incest and enmeshment: When parents turn children into partners