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Making Friends with Your Unconscious
One of the great discoveries of the 20th century was of a region of the mind universally now referred to…
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Relationships
How the Wrong Images of Love Can Ruin Our Lives
The Romantic view of relationships doesn’t merely produce bad art. It’s extremely dangerous as a guide to life.
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When Love Isn’t Easy
You’re up in the middle of the night and once again, you’re in trouble in love…
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Why We All End Up Marrying Our Parents
Psychoanalysis doesn’t merely insist that we will marry someone like our parent. It also proposes that what we really want to do is to give the story with a parent-type figure a different ending.
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Self-Knowledge
Mechanisms of Defence
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
The Always Unfinished Business of 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
How to Live More Consciously
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
On Always Finding Fault with Others
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
The Causes of Obsessive Thinking
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
How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us
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
How History Can Explain Our Unhappiness
When trying to understand why we might be feeling unhappy, we tend to be drawn to reasons relatively close to…
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Self-Knowledge
The Sinner Inside All of Us
In the public squares of the cities of northern Europe in the Middle Ages, a standard sight was of a…
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Self-Knowledge
Mechanisms of Defence
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
The Always Unfinished Business of 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
How to Live More Consciously
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
On Always Finding Fault with Others
The problem with trying accurately to identify the behaviour known as fault-finding – defined as an obsessive need to focus…
View
Calm
The Causes of Obsessive Thinking
For some of us, today like every day, will mean another case of immersing ourselves, from the moment we wake…
View
Leisure
How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us
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
How History Can Explain Our Unhappiness
When trying to understand why we might be feeling unhappy, we tend to be drawn to reasons relatively close to…
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Self-Knowledge
The Sinner Inside All of Us
In the public squares of the cities of northern Europe in the Middle Ages, a standard sight was of a…
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