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Why We Sometimes Feel Like Curling Up Into a Ball
We sometimes cause ourselves a lot of pain by pretending to be competent, all-knowing, proficient adults — long after we…
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What is Body Therapy?
The discipline known as body therapy starts with a basic and hugely persuasive insight: that our emotional problems will not…
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What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
In the United States in the late 1960s, two American psychologists, Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, developed a form of…
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What is Art Therapy?
One of the more surprising aspects of being human is that we often can’t tell other people or, more strangely,…
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Edward Gibbon — The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The news is often determined to tell us that we live in uniquely critical times, beset by political disasters and…
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True Love Begins With Self-Love
With one exception, no animal is capable of hating itself. That exception, of course, is human beings. It’s one of…
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Why You Can’t Read Your Partner’s Mind
Of course, most of us don’t officially have the slightest belief in mind reading. We scoff at the absurd idea…
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The Importance of Being Single
One of the most important preconditions of a good relationship is a satisfactory perspective on being single. The more we…
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Kierkegaard on Love
One of the most provocative analyses of love ever produced is to be found in the writings of the Danish…
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Self-Knowledge
What is Body Therapy?
The discipline known as body therapy starts with a basic and hugely persuasive insight: that our emotional problems will not…
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Self-Knowledge
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
In the United States in the late 1960s, two American psychologists, Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, developed a form of…
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Self-Knowledge
What is Art Therapy?
One of the more surprising aspects of being human is that we often can’t tell other people or, more strangely,…
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Leisure
Edward Gibbon — The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The news is often determined to tell us that we live in uniquely critical times, beset by political disasters and…
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Relationships
True Love Begins With Self-Love
With one exception, no animal is capable of hating itself. That exception, of course, is human beings. It’s one of…
View
Relationships
Why You Can’t Read Your Partner’s Mind
Of course, most of us don’t officially have the slightest belief in mind reading. We scoff at the absurd idea…
View
Relationships
The Importance of Being Single
One of the most important preconditions of a good relationship is a satisfactory perspective on being single. The more we…
View
Leisure
Kierkegaard on Love
One of the most provocative analyses of love ever produced is to be found in the writings of the Danish…
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