The over-man, the superwomyn, and creatures beyond good and evil.

Posted on by Dr. Alina Sotskova

What grinds your gears? Stepping on gum when you bought new shoes? Your neighbour’s taste in music at 5am? Waking up to interesting aromas wafting gently into your bedroom from your cat’s litter box, like a sweet deathly wave of chemical weaponry? Yes, those things grind my gears, too. But you know what else grinds my gears? … Continue reading The over-man, the superwomyn, and creatures beyond good and evil.

Is our belief in being “special” harming our mental health?

Posted on by Dr. Alina Sotskova

Kirk Schneider (2008), an existential psychologist, writes that people in the current Western, post-modem culture have fallen into a dangerous game of "either-or:" either they see themselves in a reductionist, mechanistic way, a cog in the interconnected global machine, or they see themselves as omnipotent heroes of the post-modern age, so special and so powerful … Continue reading Is our belief in being “special” harming our mental health?