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Living Long Term With Mental Illness
We would – of course – want to get rid of this thing forever and heaven knows we will have…
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Three Essays on Flight
If we were tasked with showing a visiting Martian the best of human capacities, we could do worst than to take them to the airport for a look around.
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Henri Rousseau
The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties — was ridiculed by the critics of his day. Yet he is now celebrated as a visionary genius.
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Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful as Charles Dickens. But Dickens spent most of his life hiding a terrible secret — one that helps to shed light on his peculiar genius…
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Might I Be Feeling Lonely Rather Than Worried?
We may be no strangers to worried moods. Something awful often feels like it is about to happen. We fret…
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The Impulse to Sink Our Own Mood – and Return to Sadness and Worry
For some of us, happiness and excitement never seem to last for very long. Every time we finally take pride…
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How ‘Mad’ People Make a Lot of Sense
We like to draw a firm line between the people we casually call ‘mad’ and the rest of us. The…
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Why We Keep Repeating Patterns of Unhappiness
Many of us dimly sense that, despite ourselves, unfortunately and mysteriously, we keep ending up in some very similar dark…
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Your Self-Esteem is a Record of Your History
It’s a feature of the way we’re built that we don’t generally go around asking why we feel as we…
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Relationships
People Not to Fall in Love With
It may sound ungenerous to throw the emphasis on the negative but we can fairly say that people who are…
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Relationships
The Need for Honesty on Early Dates
One of the first priorities for any suitor on an early dinner date is – typically – to strive to…
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Relationships
The Difficulties of Impotence
Seldom do we need the insights of psychotherapy as urgently as when it comes to cases of male heterosexual impotence.…
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Calm
Might I Be Feeling Lonely Rather Than Worried?
We may be no strangers to worried moods. Something awful often feels like it is about to happen. We fret…
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Self-Knowledge
The Impulse to Sink Our Own Mood – and Return to Sadness and Worry
For some of us, happiness and excitement never seem to last for very long. Every time we finally take pride…
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Self-Knowledge
How ‘Mad’ People Make a Lot of Sense
We like to draw a firm line between the people we casually call ‘mad’ and the rest of us. The…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Keep Repeating Patterns of Unhappiness
Many of us dimly sense that, despite ourselves, unfortunately and mysteriously, we keep ending up in some very similar dark…
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Self-Knowledge
Your Self-Esteem is a Record of Your History
It’s a feature of the way we’re built that we don’t generally go around asking why we feel as we…
View
Relationships
People Not to Fall in Love With
It may sound ungenerous to throw the emphasis on the negative but we can fairly say that people who are…
View
Relationships
The Need for Honesty on Early Dates
One of the first priorities for any suitor on an early dinner date is – typically – to strive to…
View
Relationships
The Difficulties of Impotence
Seldom do we need the insights of psychotherapy as urgently as when it comes to cases of male heterosexual impotence.…
View