Book: Hidden in the Dark

Sometimes the absence of some facts is no less informative than their discovery.

Widows, widowers, orphans - this is the name given to those who have lost their husbands, wives, and parents. But there is no name for parents who have lost their children.

No matter how differently we live our lives, they end in the same way. At least these days.

Women, beware of women.

Men, she said, are pushed into crime by money, anger, or someone else's words. However, with women, things are different. Women kill because someone is in their way.

Female psychopaths are more narcissistic and selfish than men. And much more vindictive when someone makes them angry.

They don't become psychopaths, they are born psychopaths.

Shame today is an old-fashioned feeling; the modern world assures us that we should not be ashamed of our actions or thoughts. And yet, shame manifests itself through the psyche - in self-hatred, in repentance, disgust. These emotions are incredibly powerful, especially when the subject denies what happened.

A child who has become the fruit of violence will always be reminded of violence by his mere presence.

Control over another person is often passed off as caring.

Pictures can lie even without any "Photoshop".

Why did employees of schools and clinics seem to have left the pages of a psychology textbook, a section on passive-aggressive behavior?

Cliché, you say? Yes, but at the heart of every cliché is truth.

Occam's razor. According to this principle, the simplest possible explanation is usually the correct one.