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Self-Knowledge

One of the greater paradoxes of being human is that we must live within minds whose folds and depths we…

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Self-Knowledge

One of the great discoveries of the 20th century was of a region of the mind universally now referred to…

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Self-Knowledge

Getting to know ourselves better sounds, on the surface, like a project we might all buy into. But this is…

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Self-Knowledge

Whatever our commitment to self-knowledge, we have no alternative but to go to our deaths having understood only a fraction…

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Self-Knowledge

We want – almost all of us – to live as long as possible. But in our urgent and never-guaranteed…

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Self-Knowledge

The problem with trying accurately to identify the behaviour known as fault-finding – defined as an obsessive need to focus…

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Calm

For some of us, today like every day, will mean another case of immersing ourselves, from the moment we wake…

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Leisure

There can be considerable confusion as to why exactly it might be helpful to visit a psychotherapist. Typically we might…

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Self-Knowledge

When trying to understand why we might be feeling unhappy, we tend to be drawn to reasons relatively close to…

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