Jules Evans
Research Fellow
University of London
Thomas Dixon
Nigel Warburton
Consultant Editor and Interviewer
Aeon+Psyche
Chris Millard
Lecturer, History of Medicine & Medical Humanities
University of Sheffield
David Saunders
PhD student
Centre for the History of the Emotions, London
Bonnie Evans
Senior Research Fellow, SLLF
Queen Mary, University of London
Fay Bound Alberti
Writer, Historian and Consultant
London
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Consciousness and altered states
The waterworks
Tears of sorrow, tears of joy, tears of incontinence or of ecstasy. Crying must mean something – but what?
Thomas Dixon
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Mental health
Their good life
Governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Is there a limit to state-sponsored happiness?
Jules Evans
idea
Wellbeing
Is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth?
Nigel Warburton & Jules Evans
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Illness and disease
Fatal nurture: what a rare disorder says about ‘bad mothers’
Chris Millard
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
The history of brainwashing is a red flag for techno-therapy
David Saunders
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Neurodiversity
The autism paradox
How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced
Bonnie Evans
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Consciousness and altered states
Caves all the way down
Do psychedelics give access to a universal, mystical experience of reality, or is that just a culture-bound illusion?
Jules Evans
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Mood and emotion
One is the loneliest number: the history of a Western problem
Fay Bound Alberti