In this riveting dive into cognition, meaning-making and human progress, Judy Fan, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University, explores how we transform abstract concepts into ...

Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? Or merely help us adjust to an ‘insane’ system? Erich Fromm on mental health in 1960 ...

Sartre’s phenomenology reveals the shift from subject to object (and back) is not just grammar. It is a matter of power ...

Some people watch history pass by. Others high in ‘historical consciousness’ truly live it – and seem to benefit as a result ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

People living in Western nations today can expect to live a considerably longer life, on average, than 100 years or so ago. The dramatically shorter average life expectancies of the past were skewed ...

According to the French philosopher Pierre Hadot (1922-2010), ancient philosophy was something that had to be practised at each instant, and the goal of which was to transform the whole of the ...

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.

Standard features of human memory and learning can help explain the disorientation that follows the death of a loved one When a loved one dies, many of us fall very suddenly into a disorienting new ...

Through my own struggles and in teaching bibliotherapy to students, I know that books can help to heal minds and hearts A few years ago, I had a breakdown from what would now be termed ‘burnout’. It ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known reputation as a philosophical provocateur is partly the result of his commitment to disabusing his readers of a variety of beliefs: their beliefs in a higher purpose, ...

Doctors said my son would die. I wouldn’t believe them, raised millions of dollars and travelled the world for a cure ...