PinnedJan Canty, Ph.D.A Cleaver of a Moment in JulyBy 9 p.m. Saturday, July 13, 1985, I was pacing. Even the weather was uneasy. Lightning periodically illuminated the sky with a sickly…Jun 8Jun 8
Jan Canty, Ph.D.Safety and PsychopathsThey hide in plain sight. Psychopaths look like anyone else. They exist in every country, in both genders, from all backgrounds, and of all…Sep 21Sep 21
Jan Canty, Ph.D.Wrongful Convictions Impact All of UsThe accused was arrested. They confessed to murder. Their guilty sentence led to life without parole. Others got the death penalty. Justice…Sep 6Sep 6
Jan Canty, Ph.D.What’s Your Gif?Where lies your talent? Can you make music with just a stick and an overturned bucket? Do you make people laugh without much effort? Are…Sep 2Sep 2
Jan Canty, Ph.D.I Dismissed After-Death Communications as LudicrousBy graduate school, I was trained to dismiss anything remotely connected with parapsychology (or “psi”). It was fodder for fortune tellers…Aug 24Aug 24
Jan Canty, Ph.D.Don’t Help Your Kids Become Drug AbusersI doubt many parents deliberately undermine their son or daughter’s future. And I doubt any kid plans to become a drug addict. But it…Aug 20Aug 20
Jan Canty, Ph.D.Medical Serial Murderers (MSKs)Picture a serial murderer. Does Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer come to mind? It’s doubtful you imagined a physician or nurse. And yet, they…Aug 9Aug 9
Jan Canty, Ph.D.It Smells Like Home!It was a windy, November afternoon at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. My daughter had recently returned home from New York where she’d been…Aug 5Aug 5