There is a fascinating and disturbing survey result that it’s well worth exploring. The survey was conducted among 1,008 randomly selected American adults by the Public Religion Research Institute. It focused on exploring their attitudes to God, and God’s role in natural disasters. The main results were as follows: 70% of respondents believed God is [...]

It is worth, I think, reading this thoughtful and rather melancholy article at the New York Times, along with the accompanying letters to the editor. In essence, it explores why American psychiatrists are less and less likely to provide talk therapy to their patients. Instead, they tend now to spend most of their time prescribing [...]

So here’s an interesting study into pain and guilt. The basic idea was to take two groups – one of people who were feeling guilty and one of people who weren’t. You tell them they’re doing a mental acuity task, but actually, you’re measuring the effect of pain on their guilt. So unwittingly, some of [...]