Дмитрий Коренев

At the women’s request we are carrying on with MEN’S MANIPULATIONS, now that we have worked through the female examples. Manipulation No. 2 — playing on SOCIAL ROLES. A reminder: we put the list together jointly, on the basis of what we discuss at our meetings and in the comments, because the best way to stop a manipulation is to expose it, and to BUILD A RELATIONSHIP means replacing manipulations with agreements.

Van Gogh is famous for more than cutting off his own ear. It was Freud in Austria who raised psychiatry to the rank of a science, but what I am writing is an ode to art therapy, which was brought into the world by the famous Dutchman Van Gogh thanks to the Christian mercy of one of the most creative French psychiatric asylums in Provence.

The series “Boy's Word” has become a popular meme that supposedly inspires teenagers to set up gangs of their own. The phenomenon has set off heated discussion among the Elders, many of whom see in it a romanticising of gangsterism. But let us try to look at the situation from another angle: what actually matters to a teenager, and what draws them to this series? “Boy's Word” is not merely entertainment, it is a mirror reflecting the inner experience and the aspirations of the young. In this article we will try

In their worldview, their actions and their thoughts — in everything — they lean on traditions, canons, logic and rules that already exist (those of their family, of society). “That is how it is done”, “that is how one should live”, “that is the right way to act”. Without such a dependable, stable footing they are tormented by doubt and by the difficulty of choosing “the right way”. A need for guidance from outside.