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Why Knowing Ourselves is Impossible – and Necessary
One of the greater paradoxes of being human is that we must live within minds whose folds and depths we…
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Questioning Our Conscience
Once we realise we have a conscience and that it speaks to us in a very partial manner, we are in a better position to reflect on the issue of origins.
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Overcoming Manic Moods
In our manic moods, we are in flight from emotional truths that terrify and sadden us. We are running to make sure we do not meet ourselves.
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Learning to Feel What We Really Feel
A so-called ‘well-adjusted mind’ is one that can minimise the distance between what it feels and what it knows it feels: between the emotions that flood it and those that consciousness can register.
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Self-Knowledge
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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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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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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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
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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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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