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Who Deserves Love?
Attempts to render us more loving tend to try to focus our minds on those people that, in the ordinary…
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Self-Forgiveness
Our refusal to forgive ourselves for our mistakes tends to hang on a strong sense of how much these were,…
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Why We Must Have Done Bad to Be Good
There is a paradox at the heart of what it means to be a loving person. On the one hand,…
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What You Need to Know About Psychotherapy
In order to recover from many kinds of mental distress, there’s really no alternative but to get acquainted with psychotherapy. …
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Why parents bully their children
One of the strangest and saddest phenomena of psychological life is that there are parents, too many parents, who end…
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The Origins of People Pleasing
There is a kind of person who seems, on initial acquaintance, to be astonishingly in agreement with us on all…
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The Benefits of Forgetfulness
We often complain that we have bad memories. We forget our house keys, the names of certain acquaintances and vital…
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How to Handle an Envious Friend
Almost inevitably, somewhere along the path of our friendships, we are fated to stumble upon one of the most paradoxical…
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What the Villas of Despots Teach Us About Pride
Once upon a time, this was Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s favourite of the three pools in his $100 million, 15,000 square-metre palace,…
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The Wisdom of Dusk
Our thoughts are – nominally – free to go in any direction at any time of day or night. In…
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Why We Shouldn’t Fear Asylums
For many of us, a fundamental priority is that we should never, ever end up in a psychiatric hospital —…
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Self-Forgiveness
Our refusal to forgive ourselves for our mistakes tends to hang on a strong sense of how much these were,…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Must Have Done Bad to Be Good
There is a paradox at the heart of what it means to be a loving person. On the one hand,…
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Sociability
The Origins of People Pleasing
There is a kind of person who seems, on initial acquaintance, to be astonishingly in agreement with us on all…
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Self-Knowledge
The Benefits of Forgetfulness
We often complain that we have bad memories. We forget our house keys, the names of certain acquaintances and vital…
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Sociability
How to Handle an Envious Friend
Almost inevitably, somewhere along the path of our friendships, we are fated to stumble upon one of the most paradoxical…
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What the Villas of Despots Teach Us About Pride
Once upon a time, this was Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s favourite of the three pools in his $100 million, 15,000 square-metre palace,…
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Calm
The Wisdom of Dusk
Our thoughts are – nominally – free to go in any direction at any time of day or night. In…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Shouldn’t Fear Asylums
For many of us, a fundamental priority is that we should never, ever end up in a psychiatric hospital —…
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Self-Knowledge
Self-Forgiveness
Our refusal to forgive ourselves for our mistakes tends to hang on a strong sense of how much these were,…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Must Have Done Bad to Be Good
There is a paradox at the heart of what it means to be a loving person. On the one hand,…
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