Shrinking the News Headline Stories on the Couch

Preface , Why Palin appeals to shell-shocked Americans , The danger of a banker with a power complex , Frieze Art Fair: artistic or autistic? , The new feminism: how Michelle Obama is changing the rules , For glamour models, sex is in the eye of the camera , Financial failure is simply the final, fatal blow , Don’t bank on the buffalo: why we need to adapt or die , How can an Oxbridge Bishop deny the Holocaust? , Roman Abramovich and Chelsea: it’s all dad’s fault , Why Tzipi Livni craved the danger of a spy’s double life , Why Josef Fritzl thought rape was a “lovely idea” , How Jade Goody became the new Princess Diana , Nicholas Hughes was killed by Sylvia Plath, his envious mother , Inside this head: how paranoia turned Phil Spector into a killer , Why Britain’s Got Talent’s Susan Boyle makes people weep , Torturing terrorists is bad for your health , The psychological trauma behind surrogate pregnancies , Farrah Fawcett in denial as she films cancer battle , Why swine flu and torture provoke witch hunts , Ireland needs courage to change cycle of abuse , Why Americans can’t handle John Ensign’s affair , Pygmalion complex of the tennis parents who can never be satisfied , Miscavige’s reign of terror over Scientology , Narcissistic obsessions killed the Man in the Mirror , Antichrist director Lars von Trier plays god to create a new morality , Madness of wanting to be normal: Nancy Garrido’s make-believe family , What Hitler and Aids have in common , Why the world is scared of hermaphrodites , The fear behind Japan’s flourishing rent-a-friend business , What were Geimer and Shields’ mothers thinking? , Women paedophiles come out of hiding , The new trend in beards raises awkward questions , Radovan Karadži?: all the signs of a psychopath , You’re the one! Dangers of internet dating , Is Khmer Rouge jailer Duch just a nobody? , Why some women bosses turn into bullies , What deniers of climate change are really denying , Jessica Davies’ heady cocktail of sex and pain , Edlington brothers: why boredom turns to torture , Pope John Paul II: saint or closet masochist? , Sports stars lose out to philanthropists as today’s heroes , Tokyo: when a “splitter-upper” goes too far , The biggest bully is inside Gordon Brown’s head , Less clever men are more likely to cheat. Really? , Why Jon Venables wants to reveal his true identity , Chatroulette and perverts who want to attack mother , The spread of rape spells madness in the Congo , None of the party leaders is offering us charisma , TV’s virgin auctions: who pays the highest price? , Derrick Bird: mentality of a suicide bomber , Congress vs. Hayward: how it became a witch hunt , Aimee Sword: the hate that turned to incestuous love , Joanne Lee suicide pact: the comfort of strangers , The guilt that binds Ed and David Miliband together , Does Julian Assange suffer from being a mama’s boy? , Why the world will weep for Nelson Mandela , Criado-Perez scare: what turns men into misogynist bullies? , Ed Miliband and the problems of being Ralph’s heir apparent

Biography

Coline Covington