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How to Steal a Very Expensive House
There’s a common assumption that the only way to own a beautiful house, or car or piece of clothing is…
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Everything Is So Weird
There are moments, terrifying but also useful, vertiginous, comedic and in their own way filled grandeur and beauty, when we leave ordinary reality behind and perceive everything as for once entirely and profoundly weird.
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Escaping Into History
We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.
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The Inevitability of Choice
There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.
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The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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Politics, Mental Health and Virginia Woolf
It is a measure of how much we generally manage to keep political events separate from our internal functioning that…
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What Alien Delusions Tell Us About Our Minds
In psychiatric hospitals and consulting rooms worldwide, one of the more unlikely-sounding but very common presenting problems involves aliens. A…
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Calm
The Consolations of Deep Time
Thinking about the age of the earth is – unexpectedly perhaps – among the more consoling and calming of all…
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Self-Knowledge
A Simple Exercise to Help Us Find Direction
It can be hard to know what to do next in relation to many challenges we face. Maybe we’ve left…
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Self-Knowledge
How Wounded People Seek Out Further Punishment
There’s a bitter paradox that awaits many of us who have suffered from harsh, unloving childhoods: we have an above-average chance…
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Self-Knowledge
When Evil Walks Into Our Lives…
One of our basic beliefs is that the people we come across will not, fundamentally, be bad or malevolent. We…
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Self-Knowledge
What Are Germaphobes Really Scared Of?
It is tempting to have a laugh at germaphobes. Look at them cleaning the handle of the oven with powerful…
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Self-Knowledge
Why Are Some of Us Hoarders?
We should start with a large caveat; one person’s ‘hoarding’ is another person’s ‘collecting’ or ‘not throwing things randomly away’…
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Calm
Politics, Mental Health and Virginia Woolf
It is a measure of how much we generally manage to keep political events separate from our internal functioning that…
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Self-Knowledge
What Alien Delusions Tell Us About Our Minds
In psychiatric hospitals and consulting rooms worldwide, one of the more unlikely-sounding but very common presenting problems involves aliens. A…
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