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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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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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Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store…
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When Something is Beautiful…
It might be a tree in blossom, some daffodils, an ancient cottage, an old stone wall, the dawn sky… Such…
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Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
If you were making a wildlife documentary about humans and set up cameras to watch us going about our business,…
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Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
There are relationships which begin with great enthusiasm and love on both sides – but where after a while, one…
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What’s the Bit of Therapy That Heals You?
It’s widely assumed that there is something about psychotherapy that has the power to heal. But exactly what this might…
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The Breast and the Mouth
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Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
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The Past Was Not in Black and White
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You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
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When Something is Beautiful…
Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
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