Therapy is a place where you can open your life to a stranger whose role is to help you come to terms with, evaluate and change how you understand yourself and how you live. Therapy can begin a ...

But his most memorable job remains making bread with those labeled unfit to live in society. At 5 am, a correction officer ...

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...

With a few lifestyle and dietary changes, you can protect your gut microbiome, boost your immunity and improve your mood In healing my relationship with food and cooking, I saw how caring for myself ...

Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them ...

To be liked by others is often treated as a paramount aim. The quest for social approval begins in childhood, and it continues in a range of ways throughout the lifespan as people try to find their ...

Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity ...

How does memory transform far away from home? A Sudanese artist uses a surreal lens to capture his longing and nostalgia ...

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

We all make wrong decisions, but if you’re a ‘maximiser’ rather than a ‘satisficer’, the regret hurts all the more ...

Throughout our long history, people have always experienced panic, probably even panic attacks. Today, we have sophisticated medications – especially benzodiazepines – that people can use to help them ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...