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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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The Challenges of Male Friendships
Men are lonely not through any specific deficiency on their part but because of an inherent conflict between what is required of being a man on the one hand and what is involved in being a friend on the other.
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Why Introverts Are As They Are
We become introverted or extroverted as a result of particular experiences; it is our distinctive path through childhood that determines at which end of the spectrum we are going to fall.
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The Boring Person
The boring person isn’t really boring; they are in manic flight from what is profoundly and agonisingly interesting in themselves.
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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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Relationships
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…
View
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…
View
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…
View
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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