Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II: saint or closet masochist?

News Fri 29 Jan 2010, AT 06:40

The late Pope may have been searching for love and a release from guilt, says The First Post’s psychoanalyst

Kids on a wall

Edlington brothers: why boredom turns to torture

News Fri 22 Jan 2010, AT 13:39

How could two young boys be so sadistic? The First Post’s psychoanalyst on the dangers of having ‘nowt to do’

Internet dating

You’re the one! Dangers of internet dating

News Mon 9 Nov 2009, AT 07:20

This week’s rape report proves the net is a breeding ground for unrealistic sexual fantasies, says The First Post’s psychoanalyst

Brooke Shields

What were Geimer and Shields’ mothers thinking?

News Fri 2 Oct 2009, AT 12:07

Samantha Geimer and Brooke Shields satisfied their mothers’ fantasies of seducing father and getting rid of mother

Japanese rent-a-friends

The fear behind Japan's flourishing rent-a-friend business

News Fri 25 Sep 2009, AT 11:54

More and more Japanese are employing fake friends and bosses in order to save face

Caster Semenya

Why the world is scared of hermaphrodites

News Thu 17 Sep 2009, AT 01:00

Ambiguous gender identity in another can trigger anxieties about our own unconscious homosexual fantasies, says psychoanalyst Coline Covington

Don’t bank on the buffalo: why we need to adapt or die

News Wed 28 Jan 2009, AT 00:00

The need for people to reinvent themselves has never been so great. But can we do it, asks psychoanalyst Coline Covington