Opinion
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What if your worry problem is really a planning problem?
Clinicians have long recognised the link between worry and planning. New research asks what this means for managing anxiety ...
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In therapy or meditation, is it normal to feel worse at first?
A ‘no pain, no gain’ mentality might make sense when striving for change – but don’t confuse discomfort and distress ...
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Instead of wrestling with self-defeating thoughts, try this
When your own thoughts discourage and undermine you, it’s easy to get tangled. A change of strategy could get you past it ...
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Why it’s possible to be optimistic in a world of bad news
is a London-based writer and consultant on science, technology and the future. A former editor-in-chief of New Scientist, he is the author of The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change ...
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Circles possess a defiant beauty in the abstract works of Howardena Pindell
An artist receiving long-overdue recognition reflects on the motifs of circles and numbers that have inspired her all along ...
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Too many men lack close friendships. What’s holding them back?
is a developmental and social psychologist. She is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and a postdoctoral scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.
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To have deeper conversations, try being more of an asshole
is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, US, originally from Istanbul, Turkey. Her primary interests are in ethics and aesthetics.
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Prison letters animate Diane’s attempt to understand a distant father
Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.