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  • Former WVU professor to speak at Culture Center on the history of monotheism

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Internationally respected psychoanalyst Dr. Leon Wurmser will present a lecture titled "Monotheism: One God, Many Questions," at 7:30 p.m. on Monday at the Culture Center. The event is free. A reception will be held in th...

  • Mind Sight: Is Metta World Peace Delusional?

    Last year, he changed his name from Ron Artest to Metta World Peace. The word "metta" is a Buddhist term meaning "kindness toward all." "World peace" is self-explanatory. And yet his actions over his career have been anything but kind or peaceful. He has been suspended 10 times in 10 seasons, the latest being the seven-day suspension handed out to him by the NBA for his elbow to the temple of ...

  • Can we talk about your anger at the banks? | Joris Luyendijk

    Join me and psychoanalyst Leslie Chapman in the comments thread below to discuss your anger at the financial sector This banking blog has been going for seven months now and in that time hundreds and hundreds of ferociously angry comments about banks, bankers and the financial sector have been posted in the comment threads. Can we talk about this? The anger itself seems perfectly understandable ...

  • Oral, anal, genital

    Sigmund Freud is often associated with a psychoanalyst’s leather couch. Now I know better after dipping into the multi-volume compilation of his writings.

  • Mind Sight: Why Are We so Inspired by Upsets?

    When Jeremy Lin seemed to come out of nowhere last winter to lead the New York Knicks of the NBA to six straight wins, and in the process scoring 38 points against big, bad Kobe Bryant and defeating the Los Angeles Lakers, our whole nation, indeed even much of the world, rose up in in a mass "hallelujah!"

  • Arts Notes: May 6, 2012

    Civil War historian to present "Little Lecture" Civil War historian and author Hunter Lesser will give the May 20 Little Lecture for the West Virginia Humanities Council. "Robert E. Lee in West Virginia" will begin...

  • Sex and spies in 'Waiting for Sunrise'

    The new novel from acclaimed British author William Boyd, is an evocative mix of sex, spies and psychoanalysis, so it's no surprise that he is penning the next James Bond novel.

  • Sex, spies and psychoanalysis in 'Waiting for Sunrise'

    "Waiting for Sunrise," the new novel from acclaimed British author William Boyd, is an evocative mix of sex, spies and psychoanalysis.

  • Why Do So Many Bosses Lie?

    Why do leaders risk so much over what, in the grand scheme of things, is a small dishonesty?

  • File on Hitler's mental state turns up in Cambridge home

    A top secret psychological profile of Adolf Hitler – written by a Cambridge expert – has turned up 60 years on.

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