Tag: Opinion

I AM A psychiatrist, a medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of mental illness. Psychiatry is different to other branches of medicine. Psychiatric diagnoses are based on symptoms and stories rather than tests and scans. Each person comes with a...

World Bipolar Day is observed on March 30 every year, which was artist Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. Van Gogh was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day is a day to focus on a serious mental/brain illness that afflicts...

World Bipolar Day is observed on March 30 every year, which was artist Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. Van Gogh was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day is a day to focus on a serious mental/brain illness that afflicts...

World Bipolar Day is observed on March 30 every year, which was artist Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday. Van Gogh was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day is a day to focus on a serious mental/brain illness that afflicts...

YouTube has supposedly blocked the network formerly known as “Russia Today” throughout Europe. But as of this morning, I was still able to livestream it in the United States. I don’t recommend it, but I spent a few hours watching in...

To Cornwall, where I have just returned from a rather blustery half-term break that saw not one, not two, but three storms sweep through in the space of a week. We visit this part of the world five or six times...

Like TS Eliot, who declares at the beginning of his great “Dry Salvages” poem that he does “not know very much about Gods,” I do not know very much about trees. But also like Eliot, who nonetheless declares the River –...

Bitcoin is the hardest form of money that has ever been invented. The enthusiasm that has emerged around this technology has been slowly revitalizing our society. The Bitcoin space is filled with hope and joy. This contrasts with the low morale...

Criminals are deploying “psychological tactics” to con people out of cash amid a rise in scams, Barclays bank stated. The tricks include creating illusions of product scarcity or pretending to be an authority to “socially engineer” victims, the bank’s chief behavioral...

Harvard Business School has been attracting glowing reports for its Leadership and Happiness class, taught by the social scientist Arthur Brooks. The seven-week program teaches its whizz-kids to understand the roots of their own fulfillment so as to “lead others in...