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The Psychology of Writing a Serial Killer

To write convincingly from the perspective of a serial killer, you have to spend time inside a mindset most people instinctively avoid. That discomfort reveals things about how people justify their actions. When I began writing Memoirs of a Serial Killer, shock value wasn’t the goal. I wasn’t interested in…
Dan Uselton
March 23, 2026
Miscellany

5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately

Originally posted on Psychology Today. Depression, like art, can never be adequately described in words alone, though Andrew Solomon comes close in his memoir Noonday Demon. In it, he writes: "I felt as though I had a physical need, of impossible urgency and discomfort, from which there was no release—as though I were…
Allison Abrams
February 5, 2018
Better SelfNonfiction

“Tiny Habits” for the New Year

Forget all those huge, sweeping resolutions you're making for the New Year — they aren’t going to work. Either your ability or motivation is likely to defeat you. Instead, hack your behavior. This is the message in Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by BJ…
Cynthia Conrad
December 31, 2019