Almost two years ago I’ve posted a blog entry named “Toddlers and children beauty pageants – Risk factors for severe psychological turmoils” in order to simply express my opinion as a psychologist regarding the phenomenon of child beauty pageants. I must say I was and still am impressed by your reactions, comments, private messages, re-posts, [...]
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January 26th, 2011
10 (Psychological) Reasons why we like Dexter Morgan
Photo©Christian Weber/Showtime There must be (logical) reasons why the world fell in love with the character of Dexter Morgan as portrayed in Showtime’s series “Dexter”. How do we come to empathize with a blood-spatter analyst by day turned serial killer by night? I’ve selected 10 reasons why I believe Dexter’s such a sweetheart in our [...]
January 8th, 2011
When you are the log in your life
There are times in life when your own actions or beliefs act as limitations and keep you from reaching your goals or maintaining well-being. Now, most of the logs that appear in your path are unintentional and undesirable but identifying them might help you re-assess and act again or restore some of the “damage”. [...]
November 30th, 2010
Evil games: "My name is ….cipher."
Posted in Pensées 
Tags: BTK, Dennis Rader, Forensic Psychology, Jeffrey Dahmer, Psychopathy, Serial Killers, survey, Ted Bundy
Tags: BTK, Dennis Rader, Forensic Psychology, Jeffrey Dahmer, Psychopathy, Serial Killers, survey, Ted BundyThe image above is a fragment of one of the letters the serial killer known as The Zodiac Killer sent in one of his communications with a newspaper. Zodiac is one of the remaining serial killers that hasn’t been identified to the date and still puzzles the minds of investigators, families of victims, profilers and [...]
October 14th, 2010
The "Ohio-Bucharest" affair
You know, there are moments when life cuts your path in ways you never thought of. I will now talk about those surprising, unexpected ways… Times when friends emerge when you least expect it. Friends that are unconditionally there for you, in the right times, in the right ways. It was one of this blessed [...]
