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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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A Crucial Sign That Someone is Worth Going Out With
There is one sign that more than any other indicates that someone may well be a rewarding and trustworthy person to go out with: that they are prepared to go to therapy.
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There Are No Small Issues in Love
The only way to prevent the largest problems is to focus exhaustively and with dark good humour on the very smallest ones.
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On Not Being Very Good at Love
Our romantic fiascos can get a little less arduous the more we can bring ourselves to shrug our shoulders and confess with a very dark smile: I really can’t do this thing called love.
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On Being Terrified of Love
Whenever talk turns to being terrified of love, the implication is that the only people ever to be scared of…
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After They Left
For years, we forgot all about ownership. It would have made no sense to ask who owned the little vase…
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Six Reasons Why Being Single is So Awful
Modern culture can be particularly insistent on this point: mature people shouldn’t mind their own company. Mature people should understand…
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Why Hurt People Hurt People
It’s one of the puzzles of relationships that, after a hugely promising few months or years, one of the members…
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‘I Love You, but I Don’t Think We Should Be Together’
We tend to assume that anyone who tells us that they love us – but simultaneously insists that they don’t…
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How to Get Over an Ex by Correcting Our Misfiring Brains
It would be pleasant to believe that we could think our way rationally out of heartbreak. But our minds are…
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The Wisdom of Stoicism
Stoicism was a philosophy invented by leading minds in Ancient Greece and Rome to help us cope with agonising periods…
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The Fear of Losing Control Over Our Bodies
We can be cursed by a particularly pernicious and shame-bounded fear which stops us from flourishing at work, going out…
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On Being Terrified of Love
Whenever talk turns to being terrified of love, the implication is that the only people ever to be scared of…
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Relationships
After They Left
For years, we forgot all about ownership. It would have made no sense to ask who owned the little vase…
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Relationships
Six Reasons Why Being Single is So Awful
Modern culture can be particularly insistent on this point: mature people shouldn’t mind their own company. Mature people should understand…
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Relationships
Why Hurt People Hurt People
It’s one of the puzzles of relationships that, after a hugely promising few months or years, one of the members…
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Relationships
‘I Love You, but I Don’t Think We Should Be Together’
We tend to assume that anyone who tells us that they love us – but simultaneously insists that they don’t…
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Relationships
How to Get Over an Ex by Correcting Our Misfiring Brains
It would be pleasant to believe that we could think our way rationally out of heartbreak. But our minds are…
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Leisure
The Wisdom of Stoicism
Stoicism was a philosophy invented by leading minds in Ancient Greece and Rome to help us cope with agonising periods…
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Calm
The Fear of Losing Control Over Our Bodies
We can be cursed by a particularly pernicious and shame-bounded fear which stops us from flourishing at work, going out…
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