Qualities of a Narcissistic Sociopath

Qualities of a Narcissistic Sociopath

https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-the-narcissistic-sociopath-4587611 What would a prototypical narcissistic sociopath look like? While there are variations in the severity of symptoms, we can start to assemble a picture that will help you to identify these people in real life.https://65dc5c34cd3eeb7235a6ab8b8e287f14.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html Most likely, you’ve encountered these types of people in news reports. As many as 70% of people in prison…

Gloriavale leaver launches High Court civil proceedings against leaders

Gloriavale leaver launches High Court civil proceedings against leaders

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122862433/gloriavale-leaver-launches-high-court-civil-proceedings-against-leaders A former Gloriavale member is taking legal action against the West Coast Christian community, accusing leaders of “dereliction of duty” towards their followers. John Ready filed civil proceedings in the High Court at Greymouth on Wednesday seeking the removal of the trustees that govern Gloriavale for poor conduct, mismanagement and dereliction of duty. A…

Psychological concept known as the principle of charity

Psychological concept known as the principle of charity

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misinformation-desk/202009/photographic-evidence-it-s-easy-believe Why was it so easy to believe these wildlife stories? One reason is the psychological concept known as the principle of charity, which suggests that humans more readily believe than doubt. That is, the human brain is built to believe (the skepticism has to be learned). Just click on those hyperlinks, above, and look at…

State Redress hearing: 25 September witness list and evidence summaries

State Redress hearing: 25 September witness list and evidence summaries

https://www.abuseincare.org.nz/news/state-redress-hearing-25-september-witness-list-and-evidence-summaries/ 10:00am: Tanya and Georgina Sammons and Hope Curtin Tanya and Georgina Sammons will give evidence of their experiences of the Ministry of Social Development’s historic claims process in their attempts to address the abuse they suffered while in foster care. They will give evidence of the different approaches taken to each of their claims,…

People do indeed continually progress as they get older

People do indeed continually progress as they get older

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/boomers-30/202009/how-aging-is-reshaping-success Decades of research into life’s rich pageant, most notably George Vaillant’s work documented in his book Triumphs of Experience, have shown that people do indeed continually progress as they get older, and frequently realize greater fulfillment than when they were younger. When viewed from such a perspective, being successful is not a matter of what…

Poor Science Education and The Dualist Fallacy

Poor Science Education and The Dualist Fallacy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202009/the-rise-junk-science-in-modern-life Much superstitious thinking begins with the premise that there is a mental/spiritual realm that is separate from the physical world accessed by our senses. In natural sciences, there is only a material world. The dualist fallacy emerges in virtually every religion and many branches of pseudoscience from astrology to reflexology. It is present in…

SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father

SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/sis-left-girl-to-be-sexually-abused-former-spy/ar-BB19maEd?ocid=msedgntp The SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father but failed to lodge a complaint with the police, effectively allowing the abuse to continue for years, a former spy says. The ex-SIS agent said he was involved in a covert operation in the late 1980s and early 1990s that involved…

Peer support workforce employs people with “lived experience”

Peer support workforce employs people with “lived experience”

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/mental-health-peer-support-model-promoted The Otago Mental Health Support Trust is described by its manager, Grant Cooper, as one “small pocket” of peer support. It had six part-time staff in Dunedin and two in the Waitaki district and, he said, there were groups in some other places “often done on the smell of an oily rag and done…

When Depression is a Symptom of Buried Anger

When Depression is a Symptom of Buried Anger

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotion-information/202009/when-depression-is-symptom-buried-anger One very effective way to ease and even heal depression is by releasing the enormous burden of our visceral rage. How is this done? Anger portrayals, a technique common in accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), are extremely therapeutic. In a nutshell, anger portrayals guide a person in identifying anger in their body. Anger typically is felt as heat, energy,…