Can we vaccinate against sects?

Psychologies Magazine, April 2001 — With the rise of mass suicides, we've become accustomed to only discussing cults in the wake of these tragic events. For once, a genuine debate (1) is unfolding within civil society around a proposed...

The humanism of compassion

Psychologies Magazine, January 2001 — The growing success of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism in the West has revived an old moral concept worn down by centuries: compassion. Already criticized by the Stoics and by Spinoza as a weakness of...