Mood and emotion

Psychology

Perfecting the art of longing

Love and friendship

Illness and disease

Personality

The rocket on the roof

Self-improvement

History of ideas

Philosophy

Reasons to be cheerful

Values and beliefs

Meaning and the good life

You’re astonishing!

Nine letters

Information and communication

Cities

History

Society

The smile: a history

When hope gets in the way

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

Wellbeing

The great malaise

Life stages

Adem’s island

Family life

Pleasure and pain

The first Tuesday in November

Politics and government

Technology and the self

Neurodiversity

A is for autism

Consciousness and altered states

Hope is not optimism

The meaning of anger

Human rights and justice

Film and visual culture

Culture

Fear not

Feeling, in situ

Anthropology

Cosmopolitanism

Chairwork

Mental health

The fog of grief

Neuroscience

Radical acceptance

No crying at the dinner table

Demography and migration

Bear with me

Home

A brief history of melancholy

Thinkers and theories

Conor and Kobe

Death

Social psychology

Gender and identity

What makes a woman’s body

Dance and theatre

Celui qui tombe (He who falls)

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience

Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
