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The story involves a young man, Will Powers, who is in the throes of malignant self-absorption and potential victim of a satanic cult led by his father who is the leader of a satanic group that regularly sacrifices animals. Fortunately, Will becomes involved in a successful but at times disturbing psychotherapy with a psychiatrist who has keen insights and is able to handle the powerful emotions that inevitably arise. As the psychotherapy unfo...

In his new book, Of Heart and Mind: A Psychiatrist's Poems, retired physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Dr. Peter Alan Olsson shares the poetry that made his difficult career meaningful.He notes, "My personal use of poetry, or prose writing, helped me manage soul-sadness by discharging, soothing, containing or sublimating the realities of my work life in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. At a personal level, I often feel that my poems writ...

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Authors Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messnerboth had high hopes when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States."We were impressed with Obama's gift for moving and eloquent speeches. As both black and white himself, Obama had a unique opportunity. We had hopes that Obama would bring black America and white America together to continue our country's solid progress toward freedom and justice for all, " the authors state."After a ...

For more than twenty years, I have studied destructive and apocalyptic cult leaders like Jim Jones, David Koresh (Waco), Shoko Asahara (Aum Shinriko), Marshall Applewhite (Heaven's Gate), Charles Manson (Helter Skelter Murderers), and Luc Jouret and Joseph DiMambro (Suicidal Solar Temple). These cult leaders, the mesmerizing Malignant Pied Pipers of our time, led idealistic, father-hungry, or disillusioned young people away from their homes an...

As psychotherapists, our patients share with us the joys and sorrows, pain and pettiness, betrayal and cruelty, the lies and misery in their lives and relationships. We listen carefully and empathically. Between the lines of dialogue, however, therapists hover along a continuum of self-protection located between soul-sadness at one extreme, and a cool, isolated detachment at the other. Natural disasters, genocide, suicide bombings, hos...

As psychotherapists, our patients share with us the joys and sorrows, pain and pettiness, betrayal and cruelty, the lies and misery in their lives and relationships. We listen carefully and empathically. Between the lines of dialogue, however, therapists hover along a continuum of self-protection located between soul-sadness at one extreme, and a cool, isolated detachment at the other. Natural disasters, genocide, suicide bombings, hostage exe...

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In The Cult of Osama, Psychiatrist Peter Olsson examines Osama bin Laden's early life experiences and explains, from a psychoanalytical perspective, how those created a mind filled with perverse rage at America, as well as why his way of thinking makes bin Laden in many cases a hero to Arab and Muslim youths. Many other writings totally demonize bin Laden, and therein strangely play into putting this troubled man onto a pedestal, says Olsson, ...

An expert analysis of current U.S.-Russian relations as they play out in central Asia in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11.

In Göteborgs Gastronomieszene tobt ein brutaler Krieg. Die Polizei hat keine Hinweise auf die Drahtzieher der Schutzgelderpressung. Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund) versucht mit allen Mitteln den Kontakt zu Frank Wagner (Joel Kinnaman), seine Verbindung in Göteborgs kriminelles Milieu, wiederherzustellen. Der jedoch hat seine Pläne, eine Auszeit zu nehmen, in die Tat umgesetzt und bleibt unerreichbar. Dann erfährt Sophie Nordh (Melize Karlge) von ihr...

Wir alle wissen, dass Leidenschaft Berge versetzen kann. Peter Olsson, einer der profiliertesten und sicherlich erfolgreichsten Sportmanager, zeigt, wie jeder seine persönlichen Berge selbst aus dem Weg zu räumen vermag. Dazu muss man kein Sportler sein. Aber es schadet nicht, wenn man die zentralen Mechanismen des Sports verstanden hat. Viel von dem, was das Menschsein ausmacht, spiegelt sich darin. Das Trainieren und die mentale Vorbereitung...