Derrick Bird

Derrick Bird: mentality of a suicide bomber

News Fri 4 Jun 2010, AT 13:20

First Post psychoanalyst Coline Covington on what makes a suicide killer take others with him

Hitler Aids ad

What Hitler and Aids have in common

News Fri 11 Sep 2009, AT 16:18

The shocking German ad that using Hitler as a metaphor for Aids is a stroke of genius says psychoanalyst Coline Covington

Rorschach inkblot test

Psychologists rage over online Rorschach test

News Thu 30 Jul 2009, AT 13:24

Psychologists say Wikipedia’s publication of the Rorschach inkblots will reduce its effectiveness in dignosing patients

Damir Dokic

Pygmalion complex of the tennis parents who can never be satisfied

News Thu 18 Jun 2009, AT 18:44

This Wimbledon, there will be many parents in the audience whose sanity depends on the success of their child

Child abuse in Ireland

Ireland needs courage to change cycle of abuse

News Tue 26 May 2009, AT 16:43

The child abuse inquiry has shown the Catholic Church must face up to its long history of paedophiliia

Why swine flu and torture provoke witch hunts

News Fri 22 May 2009, AT 17:20

The witch hunts over American torture practises, swine flu and terrorism are a backlash against Obama’s inclusive policies

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick

The psychological trauma behind surrogate pregnancies

News Wed 6 May 2009, AT 17:51

Coline Covington explores why Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick opted for a surrogate pregnancy

Phil Spector

Nicholas Hughes was killed by Sylvia Plath, his envious mother

News Wed 15 Apr 2009, AT 01:00

Tortured by the ghost of his envious mother, Nicholas Hughes's suicide was inevitable says Coline Covington

How can an Oxbridge bishop deny the Holocaust?

News Tue 3 Feb 2009, AT 00:00

Bishop Williamson’s Holocaust denial is a defence strategy whose target is his own weaknesses, says psychoanalyst Coline Covington

The danger of a banker with a power complex

News Tue 7 Oct 2008, AT 01:00

The ‘do-something’ culture of the financial world is ill-equipped to deal with panic, says psychoanalyst Coline Covington

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