The Finnish military is preparing to hire a troop of psychologists and therapist to help soldiers returning from Afghanistan with mental health problems. According to national daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, a Defence College study found that more than half of all military personnel returning from peacekeeping and crisis management missions experienced domestic disputes and stress-like symptoms within weeks of getting home. Read the full story

In a strange incident, a man drove his car through the window of the mental health department at Reykjavik’s Landspitali hospital this weekend. Read the full story

The Finnish government is investigating ways in which to weed out what it determines are “unfit” students from educational areas where they could be considered harmful to fellow students or the profession. Read the full story

A gifted British boy with an exceptionally high I.Q. and a photographic memory has had his own memory preserved in a new book he helped write with his mother.

Titus Dickens came from a loving and stable family and was entertaining his grandfather by quoting Churchill’s speeches at just 18 months of age. Exceptionally talented in art, singing and acting, Titus had the highest I.Q. his psychologist had ever seen.

But Titus’s gift slowly turned into a curse, The Telegraph reports. Buckling under the pressure to excel, and dispirited by interactions with his peers, he spiralled into an addictive search for ‘the ultimate high’ through drugs and stimulants; be they legal, illegal or prescribed. Read the full story

Christine Schurrer, a German national, was found guilty in a Swedish court of murdering two Swedish infants and critically injuring their mother during a brutal attack sparked by jealousy over her ex-boyfriend. The 32 year-old woman is currently awaiting her sentence pending a psychological evaluation.

The judges decided the circumstantial evidence presented was sufficient to prove that Schurrer broke into the home of her ex-boyfriend’s current lover in the central Swedish town of Arboga and committed the murders. Using a “hammer or hammer-like object” Schurrer repeatedly struck the toddlers and their mother with full intent to kill.

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