Click Here to Read: The strange tale of Sigmund Freud’s begonia: How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather By Emma Freud in The Observer on January 2, 2026.
Love Actually With Richard Curtis LukeParkerBowles and EmmaFreud Photo courtesy of Neil Grabowsky, Montclair Film Festival. Image: Montclair Film. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality By Rachel Aviv in The New Yorker magazine on December 8, 2025.
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, wearing a light-blue shirt and a dark-blue necktie that features a double helix pattern.Image: Luigi Novi. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Reframing Altruism: Learning how to tend mutually to the needs of others. (this is an expanded version of my Psychology Today Blog of January 8, 2026) by Kenneth Silvestri on his A Wider Lens substack on January 15, 2026.
Oil painting of woman giving alms in Belisarius Begging for Alms by Jacques-Louise David (1781) Image: Own work, Remi Jouan, 2007-03,
Click Here to View: Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline: The Daily Beast Podcast on You Tuble.
Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles to explain why Donald Trump’s worsening paranoia, erratic behavior, and visible health problems point to a dangerous mix of malignant narcissism and possible frontotemporal dementia. Drawing on clinical practice and the shift toward observable diagnostic criteria, Gartner argues that Trump’s public performances reveal more than enough: the “25th time” fixation, the aspirin theories, the right-side weakness, and the drifting, rambling speeches. The conversation ends with a stark question: What happens when a country is governed by a man whose greatest vulnerability is his own deteriorating mind?
Click Here to Read: Naloxone for the Cell Phone: An Absurd Antidote to the Greatest Addiction in History (Vol. 6; Issue 2) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on January 14, 2026.
Two women text messaging on their cell phones in a coffee shop on the campus of California State University, Fullerton Image: Paul Martin Lester. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
