Westminster attack – the inability to express pain 26 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments On the morning of 22 March 2017, 52-year-old Khalid Masood ploughed his car into the crowd along Westminster Bridge before being shot by police near the Houses of Parliament. Four people died […]
Japan – sex fears and ghost towns 15 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , 3 Comments Figures released by the Statistics Bureau of Japan reveal that the country’s population is declining. The 2010 census returned a figure of 128 million inhabitants. Five years later it fell by a million. Declining population […]
Porn categories reflect historical taboos 5 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Pornography , No Comments WARNING: Contains nude images As you are no doubt aware, PornHub recently released their statistics for 2016. Being very graphic people, they produced a nicely-coloured map of the world showing the top porn categories for […]
Shame-based issues #6 – Radicalisation 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Radicalisation , Shame , No Comments Radicalisation may seem a strange thing to lump in with shame-based issues, but every single extremist who ever lived has or had an unconscious but profound sense of shame. It is from this shame that […]
Shame-based issues #5 – Honour-based violence 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , No Comments While the term ‘honour-based violence’ is often used in the context of the British Asian community, it includes all violence meted out for infidelity or perceived sexual slights, which all communities are prone to. […]
Shame-based issues #4 – Sexual dysfunction 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , Shame , No Comments If there is one area where humanity’s fundamental shame is glaringly obvious, it’s sexual dysfunction. Take a look at the following statistics: 35% of the world’s women have experienced violence or sexual violence 45% […]
Shame-based issues #3 – Porn addiction 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , Shame , No Comments First of all, let’s dispense with the argument about whether porn addiction actually exists. From a clinical perspective, porn addicts do not exhibit the same physiological symptoms as nicotine, alcohol and drug addicts. Dr […]
Shame-based issues #2 – Depersonalisation 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments “You’re staring straight ahead. Somehow your awareness peels away from you, in slow motion. It’s like you’ve cracked in two, and one half is facing the wrong way. Are you in your physical body, which you know […]
Shame-based issues #1 – Self-harm 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments In other blogs I have written about how high sensitivity, anxiety, doubt, panic, low self-esteem and low confidence are a family of related feelings. Such feelings consequently give rise to a family of behaviours as a means […]
What are shame-based issues? 3 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , No Comments Unconscious shame has given rise to a family of shame-based issues that all share a common denominator: the inability to discuss them. I’ve written about the origins of this shame in A brief history of shame. […]