There is a principle in clinical psychology called symptom substitution. When a therapist blocks a patient's compulsive behaviour – nail-biting, hair-pulling – without treating the underlying anxiety that drives it, the compulsion does not vanish. It migrates to a new outlet. The
A senior Lebanese Shia cleric has told his own community what Hezbollah has spent forty years trying to prevent them from hearing: that the men who sent their sons to die and their families into exile owe them an answer. Sheikh Ali al-Amin is not asking permission.