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AI could satisfy our deeply held desire to talk to other creatures. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits ...

Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need ...

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An activist navigating motherhood for the first time reflects on the complexity of reconciling these two kinds of caregiving ...

An uncomfortable reminder of the tension between your beliefs and behaviour might give you the push you need to change ...

It’s no small task to live a life of sustained attention. So slow down, and give your brain a break to do its work It wasn’t until I moved to the desert that I noticed the rain. Pregnant dark clouds ...

It’s a challenging time to be an optimist. Climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying. The threat of nuclear war is more complex and unpredictable than ever. Authoritarianism is resurgent.

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

Influencers and self-help gurus are preaching a form of positive psychology that risks doing more harm than good When you’ve had a bad day, or even a bad year, have you ever reached out to your ...

Shame swamps any redeeming traits you might have thought you had. Slow down to interrupt the loops that cause self-hatred It sometimes happens that we find ourselves looking in a mirror, berating our ...