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Sociability
In Praise of Small Chats With Strangers
Small sympathetic chats matter above all because few of us are ever very far from sadness and vicious despondency.
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How to Cope With Bullying
There may well be times and areas where we let ourselves be pushed around to an extent that is awkward for us to see – and that would surprise people who know only our more confident moments.
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Why We Should Listen Rather Than Reassure
The more we listen to the ‘sad’ messages our companions send us, the less hard they will have to push them.
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The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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Leisure
You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
One of the most penetrating things Andy Warhol once said was: ‘If you lock the doors of a department store…
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Leisure
When Something is Beautiful…
It might be a tree in blossom, some daffodils, an ancient cottage, an old stone wall, the dawn sky… Such…
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Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
If you were making a wildlife documentary about humans and set up cameras to watch us going about our business,…
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Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
There are relationships which begin with great enthusiasm and love on both sides – but where after a while, one…
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Leisure
What’s the Bit of Therapy That Heals You?
It’s widely assumed that there is something about psychotherapy that has the power to heal. But exactly what this might…
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Relationships
What is Sexual Perversion?
The term ‘sexual perversion’ first came into use in the 19th century to describe erotic practices taken by psychologists to…
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Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
Leisure
You Are Living in the Greatest Museum in the World
Leisure
When Something is Beautiful…
Sociability
The Life Saving Role of Small Chats
Relationships
When Your Partner Loves You – but Does Their Best to Drive You Away…
Leisure
What’s the Bit of Therapy That Heals You?
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