Psychology
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Stories and literature
Citizens
Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him?
Tim Pears
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Metaphysics
Both one and yet distinct
Being a twin (as our author knows) cracks open our ideas of the perfectly bounded self and might liberate us all
Helena de Bres
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Love and friendship
Loved, yet lonely
You might have the unconditional love of family and friends and yet feel deep loneliness. Can philosophy explain why?
Kaitlyn Creasy
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Family life
On a whirlwind morning, a couple learns if they’re facing an unplanned pregnancy
7 minutes
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Love and friendship
When drawing your muse hundreds of times becomes an exercise in love
7 minutes
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Love and friendship
A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea
9 minutes
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Gender and identity
‘I didn’t fall in love with a couple of body pieces’ – on marriage and transition
3 minutes
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Animals and humans
What happened when one woman raised an abandoned squirrel as her own
8 minutes
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Mood and emotion
‘Let me dream you into my reality’: memories illuminate an unthinkable isolation
12 minutes
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Love and friendship
The right person
Contemporary wisdom says that happiness is the measure of a marriage. But is that a harmful way of judging relationships?
Joshua Coleman
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Love and friendship
Skiing blind is a challenge – but it helps to have a loved one to guide you
20 minutes
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Love and friendship
Tainted love
Love is both a wonderful thing and a cunning evolutionary trick to control us. A dangerous cocktail in the wrong hands
Anna Machin
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Information and communication
From mental image to sketch – how memories and emotions conjure up a face
23 minutes
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History of ideas
The love story story
Neither psychology nor anthropology fully understand love: only history sees that it’s all about the time and the telling
Barbara H Rosenwein
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Personality
Art students divulge (and animate) the dating pet peeves they find unforgivable
3 minutes
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Mental health
When crushes become crushing – how to know if you’re in a ‘limerent episode’
4 minutes
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Life stages
Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old
7 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
Attached
From cradle to grave, we are soothed and rocked by attachments – our source of joy and pain, and the essence of who we are
Mostafa El-Kalliny & Zoe R Donaldson
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Love and friendship
Treasure them
Sure, lovers and children are great. But friends are more than ever the heart of happiness, of family and of love itself
Anna Machin
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War and peace
A French resistance fighter reluctantly revisits her past in this Oscar-winning portrait
25 minutes
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Love and friendship
A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner and his guard reunite as equals 13 years later
21 minutes
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Love and friendship
Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders
5 minutes
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Mental health
Turn off the gaslight
The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight in
Ramani Durvasula
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Love and friendship
After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun
15 minutes