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The Challenges of Male Friendships

Men are lonely not through any specific deficiency on their part but because of an inherent conflict between what is required of being a man on the one hand and what is involved in being a friend on the other.

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Why Introverts Are As They Are

We become introverted or extroverted as a result of particular experiences; it is our distinctive path through childhood that determines at which end of the spectrum we are going to fall.

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The Boring Person

The boring person isn’t really boring; they are in manic flight from what is profoundly and agonisingly interesting in themselves.

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Trouble

Relationships

Trouble

Let’s imagine a person called Trouble. They’re not actually called that; nominally they go by Holly or Freya, Jason or…
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The Courage to Love Again

Relationships

The Courage to Love Again

It’s odd, surely, to use the word ‘courage’ – the thing you need in air raid shelters and cancer wards…
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Eight Rules for Friendship

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Eight Rules for Friendship

A Community Dedicated to Learning the Art of Friendship We are inclined to think that the secret of great friendship…
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The Repetition Compulsion

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The Repetition Compulsion

One of the most remarkable ideas in the history of psychoanalysis is to be found in Freud’s 1920 paper ‘Beyond…
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Beware Those We Fall in Love With

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Beware Those We Fall in Love With

The word ‘madness’ tends to bring to mind distinctly lurid and macabre associations: psychiatric wards, staring eyes, murder weapons, hideous…
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