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How to Raise a Successful Person
A question not just for parents but for anyone reflecting on the constituents of a good life and on their…
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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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How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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The Breast and the Mouth
The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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Calm
How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
View
Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
View
Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
View
Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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Self-Knowledge
The Breast and the Mouth
The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
View
Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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