I wonder about the therapy-speak in Harry’s language: sometimes this provides only a surface-level understanding and enables people to project their difficulties outwards.
What started as a youthful attempt to understand myself, led to me being deeply immersed in bizarre beliefs. Now, as a psychologist, I help people break free.
In my clinical experience, adult children will have tried to repair relationships with family members but have been met with blame or further abuse.
Over the next few weeks, months and even years, many Australians will be struggling to process their experiences of Sunday night. Trauma is normal and shouldn’t be dealt with alone.
Weeks before Rowan Baxter murdered his former partner Hannah Clarke and their three children, he was visited by police who appeared to offer advice on how he could get out of a domestic violence intervention order.
It’s tempting to scoff at the US government’s advice on paracetamol. But for pregnant women, it adds anxiety to one of the most psychologically vulnerable times in their lives.
As a forensic psychologist, I was particularly surprised when I tuned into Justice Christopher Beale’s verdict on Monday morning.
As tempting as it might be to brush off far-right and extremist beliefs as silly or inconsequential, the threat they pose is becoming more real every day in Australia.
I have long hidden the shame that I was gullible enough to be lured into such a group. The perception that people in cults are different from the rest of us needs to be challenged.
The case of Erin Patterson tells us a lot about the grip certain types of crimes have on us, the beliefs we hold, and the fictions we like to tell ourselves.
