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Why Some Of Us Are So Bad At Spotting Red Flags
Some of us have a distinctive attitude to red flags in relationships. We can certainly see – if we push…
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Three Essays on Flight
If we were tasked with showing a visiting Martian the best of human capacities, we could do worst than to take them to the airport for a look around.
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Henri Rousseau
The artist Henri Rousseau — who had no formal training, and who only began painting seriously in his forties — was ridiculed by the critics of his day. Yet he is now celebrated as a visionary genius.
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Charles Dickens’s Secret
Almost no other writer has ever been quite as successful as Charles Dickens. But Dickens spent most of his life hiding a terrible secret — one that helps to shed light on his peculiar genius…
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Relationships
The Appeal of Rescuing Other People
We might assume that our great longing in relationships would be to be looked after by someone; an exceptionally kind…
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Calm
On Feeling Manic
Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run…
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Relationships
Daring to Love
Some of us are involved in a dynamic in love that, when it’s laid out squarely, sounds very strange indeed:…
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Relationships
The Pains of Heartbreak
For all the songs and poems and novels written in its honour, the sickness of heartbreak is unlikely to strike…
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Self-Knowledge
What Is It Like to Be Mentally Unwell?
Our societies have become hugely more respectful of, and sensitive to, mental illness than any of their predecessors. We now…
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How to ‘Grow’
Our societies are attached to a phrase which it can be a bit too easy to assume we understand. The…
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Relationships
People Pleasers in Relationships
It can take a while to realise what’s happened. For a long time, it simply seems that one has miraculously…
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Why It Can Take Us So Long to Understand How Unwell We Are
A lot about our behaviour doesn’t make sense until we can take on board a basic idea about the way…
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Relationships
The Appeal of Rescuing Other People
We might assume that our great longing in relationships would be to be looked after by someone; an exceptionally kind…
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Calm
On Feeling Manic
Many of us are prone to slip into states of mind we might call ‘manic’ – in which we run…
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Relationships
Daring to Love
Some of us are involved in a dynamic in love that, when it’s laid out squarely, sounds very strange indeed:…
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Relationships
The Pains of Heartbreak
For all the songs and poems and novels written in its honour, the sickness of heartbreak is unlikely to strike…
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Self-Knowledge
What Is It Like to Be Mentally Unwell?
Our societies have become hugely more respectful of, and sensitive to, mental illness than any of their predecessors. We now…
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Self-Knowledge
How to ‘Grow’
Our societies are attached to a phrase which it can be a bit too easy to assume we understand. The…
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Relationships
People Pleasers in Relationships
It can take a while to realise what’s happened. For a long time, it simply seems that one has miraculously…
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Self-Knowledge
Why It Can Take Us So Long to Understand How Unwell We Are
A lot about our behaviour doesn’t make sense until we can take on board a basic idea about the way…
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