The media is filled with alarming predictions about Artificial Intelligence, leading many of us to dread the prospect of a world in which human interaction and judgment is replaced by computers. Perhaps we should take comfort from the words of Pope Leo’s recently published Magnifica Humanitas: So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not […]

When disfigured soldiers returned from the First World War, the authorities wanted to reintegrate them into society once they recovered from their wounds or received prosthetics. At the same time, the first attempts were made to understand the psychological damage suffered by combatants (see Pat Barker’s remarkable novel Regeneration). The same cannot be said about […]

Hope is not a naïve ignorance of the world. Far from it. It is a feeling that moves us away from easy despair, to act courageously with hopeful action. Rebecca Solnit, American writer and human rights activist. Trauma knows no borders. The conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa rarely makes headlines, although it […]