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Why We Love People Who Don’t Love Us Back
Relationships in which our love is not adequately requited are — for most of us — a grave inconvenience, from…
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The Five Features of Paranoia
There are perhaps five main features of the very sad, indeed hellish, condition we know as paranoia… Firstly, paranoia means…
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Why So Many of Us Are Masochists
There are few psychological concepts harder for most of us to grasp than masochism: how can we speak of enjoyment…
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Stop Avoiding Conflict
Being ‘conflict -averse’ sounds like a lovely mild and peaceful way to be. Wouldn’t we all like to avoid conflict?…
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How and Why We Catastrophise
The idea of a catastrophiser has an almost comedic ring to it. We picture someone sweet-but-silly running around feeling like…
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On Suicide
It’s commonly assumed that people kill themselves because something goes wrong in their life: perhaps they made a mistake at…
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The Agonies of Shame
One of the worst symptoms of childhood trauma is a feeling of shame, by which is meant: a pervasive impression…
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How Trauma Works
Few of us can hope to get through life unscathed. The threats to us are so numerous and so stubborn…
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Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful — whether critically or commercially — as Charles Dickens. He…
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Self-Knowledge
The Five Features of Paranoia
There are perhaps five main features of the very sad, indeed hellish, condition we know as paranoia… Firstly, paranoia means…
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Self-Knowledge
Why So Many of Us Are Masochists
There are few psychological concepts harder for most of us to grasp than masochism: how can we speak of enjoyment…
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Relationships
Stop Avoiding Conflict
Being ‘conflict -averse’ sounds like a lovely mild and peaceful way to be. Wouldn’t we all like to avoid conflict?…
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Calm
How and Why We Catastrophise
The idea of a catastrophiser has an almost comedic ring to it. We picture someone sweet-but-silly running around feeling like…
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Self-Knowledge
On Suicide
It’s commonly assumed that people kill themselves because something goes wrong in their life: perhaps they made a mistake at…
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Self-Knowledge
The Agonies of Shame
One of the worst symptoms of childhood trauma is a feeling of shame, by which is meant: a pervasive impression…
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Self-Knowledge
How Trauma Works
Few of us can hope to get through life unscathed. The threats to us are so numerous and so stubborn…
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Leisure
Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful — whether critically or commercially — as Charles Dickens. He…
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