The Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

The waterworks

Tears of sorrow, tears of joy, tears of incontinence or of ecstasy. Crying must mean something – but what?

Thomas Dixon

Their good life

Governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Is there a limit to state-sponsored happiness?

Jules Evans

Is philosophy therapy, or is it simply a search for truth?

Nigel Warburton & Jules Evans

The history of brainwashing is a red flag for techno-therapy

David Saunders

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

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

One is the loneliest number: the history of a Western problem

Fay Bound Alberti