Leisure
Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps
In northern India, by the 1st century CE, it became common to depict the Buddha in stone not as a…
View
Browse articles by Topic
Self-Knowledge
Self-Forgiveness
Our refusal to forgive ourselves for our mistakes tends to hang on a strong sense of how much these were,…
Self-ForgivenessSelf-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,…
Why We Must Have Done Bad to Be GoodSociability
Why Misfits Make Great Friends
Once we have given up on the poisonous goal of respectability, we will at last be ready for friendship.
Read ArticleSelf-Knowledge
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…
Why Parents Bully Their ChildrenArticles
Select themes
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Relationships
Should I Be With Them?
We can spend a lot of time wondering whether or not we should be with a given person. But to…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why Abused Children End Up Hating Themselves
There is almost nothing sadder in the universe than the abuse of a child by its own parents. That a…
View
Relationships
The Seven Rules of Successful Relationships
We can spend a lot of time in relationships to which we are are ostensibly committed wondering, maybe with a…
View
Leisure
The Consolations of Catastrophe
Squatting at the centre of our societies is an immensely powerful force that operates with two distinctive ideas: it tells…
View
Leisure
What is the Point of History?
It is – viewed from the perspective of our own age – a distinctly unusual painting. Jacob de Wit, Truth…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why You Should Take a Sentence Completion Test
An urgent task of psychology is to devise tools that, rather like the claw crackers and spatulas served up in…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why Grandiosity is a Symptom of Self-Hatred
If we are looking to understand self-hatred, we should take a moment to consider a subsection of people who seem…
View
Self-Knowledge
The Origins of Imposter Syndrome
There is a peculiar affliction that may befall those who have spent many patient years working at their professional goals…
View
Select themes
Relationships
Should I Be With Them?
We can spend a lot of time wondering whether or not we should be with a given person. But to…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why Abused Children End Up Hating Themselves
There is almost nothing sadder in the universe than the abuse of a child by its own parents. That a…
View
Relationships
The Seven Rules of Successful Relationships
We can spend a lot of time in relationships to which we are are ostensibly committed wondering, maybe with a…
View
Leisure
The Consolations of Catastrophe
Squatting at the centre of our societies is an immensely powerful force that operates with two distinctive ideas: it tells…
View
Leisure
What is the Point of History?
It is – viewed from the perspective of our own age – a distinctly unusual painting. Jacob de Wit, Truth…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why You Should Take a Sentence Completion Test
An urgent task of psychology is to devise tools that, rather like the claw crackers and spatulas served up in…
View
Self-Knowledge
Why Grandiosity is a Symptom of Self-Hatred
If we are looking to understand self-hatred, we should take a moment to consider a subsection of people who seem…
View
Self-Knowledge
The Origins of Imposter Syndrome
There is a peculiar affliction that may befall those who have spent many patient years working at their professional goals…
View