magical thinking

Sins of the Fathers and other pedophiles

Posted by centaur on March 3, 2007 at 7:42 am

Just saw a W-Five report on a pedophile priest in Canada. Trying to find it online but no success. I have found this article instead, which is quite shocking if you were to click it and read it in its entirety. Gives some background on why pedophile priests may have historically been protected, their abuses kept hidden, their [...]

More on Narcissism

Posted by centaur on February 25, 2007 at 8:57 am

Here are several links to some good books on narcissism.

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
Why Is It Always About You? : Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life

Think I’ll be buying the books. Became very interested in [...]

True believer syndrome and Nigerian scam

Posted by centaur on January 28, 2007 at 8:43 am

Wanted to write a post about magical thinking and found such wonderful info about it on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking
Will get back to it later.
But it led me to a link on True Believer Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome and from there, a link to John W. Worley, renowned psychiatrist, and victim of a 419 scam.
Along with the scam and [...]