Showing results for "The Buried" in Psychology & Mental Health

Our cousin Ricky had autism, was a savant, and died at age 18 under bizarre circumstances. We look at his life, his contacts, and his death, which is both a tragedy and a persistent mystery. He died of suffocation, in a barn. But the setting and the manner of his death are puzzling. The setting is pretty weird, and the manner — the one given on the death certificate — was never known by even his siblings until late 2024. Ricky’s parents took that secret with them to the grave. It’s been more than 50 years since Ricky’s death. And the family still has questions about how he came to ...

Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing clients to uncover what lies buried behind some of the most extreme and disturbing behaviour. Whether she is dealing with a young murderer who says he has heard voices telling him to kill, a teacher who daubs children in red paint and threatens to abduct them, or an aspiring serial killer who faints at the sight of blood, Kerry's quest is to delve beyond the classic question asked of her profession: 'Are they mad, or are they bad?'

Hoarding is a behavioral problem consisting of clutter, difficulty discarding items, and excessive buying or acquiring. If you or a loved one has hoarding disorder, this book can help. Written by scientists and practitioners who are leaders in studying and treating hoarding disorder, this book outlines a program of skill-building, learning to think about possessions in a different way, and gradual challenges to help people manage their clutter and their lives. It also provides useful information for family and friends of people who hoard, as they struggle to understand and help.

Buried into all of us is what Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés refers to as “the one who knows”—the instinctive, intuitive nature. This, she teaches, is the source of creativity and understanding that lies out of sight in darkness, often called the unconscious. On Seeing in the Dark, we join...