Dr Akhtar Ali Syed works as Principal Clinical Psychologist with Brothers of Charity Services, Waterford, Ireland. He got his training in Clinical Psychology from Pakistan, training in Eidetic Psychotherapy from New York and completed his PhD from Dublin. He is the originator of Eidetic Model of Growth, a form of psychotherapy developed for people with intellectual disabilities. He teaches psychotherapy and psychopathology in different Universities.

Psychotherapy, Intellectual disability, Colonialism.

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Personality disorders