Psychology
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Wellbeing
Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past
28 minutes
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
The space between us
In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads
James Barnes
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The future
What’s the healthiest way to handle a creeping feeling that the world is ending?
15 minutes
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship
3 minutes
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Subcultures
Life in the buff
Naturists believed nudity was profoundly beneficial to society. In order to spread the message, they took to photography
Annebella Pollen
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Gender and identity
‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ What gender transition means to John
6 minutes
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Wellbeing
A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company
3 minutes
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Wellbeing
Wry animations expose the gap between anxious aspiration and real life
5 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Hope is not optimism
Even when you know that prospects are grim, hope can help. It’s not just a feeling, but a way to step into the future
David B Feldman & Benjamin W Corn
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Wellbeing
A unique theatre performance explores what touch means in an age of lockdown
17 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
‘Meditation without meditating’ might be possible. Can it also be made ethical?
9 minutes
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Rewiring your life
A radical therapy based on eye movements can desensitise painful memories, heal hurts and aid transformation at warp speed
Deborah Korn
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Wellbeing
The controversial New Age guru who believed self-love healed all – even AIDS
18 minutes
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Art
Changed by art
Gazing at a painting feels like an almost magical encounter with another mind but what real effects does art have on us?
Ellen Winner
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Meaning and the good life
Amid the chaos of being, Nietzsche believed that plants offer us inspiration for living
8 minutes
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Home
How our rooms shape our world, and vice versa
3 minutes
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Nature and landscape
The poet Wendell Berry reflects on the sublime peace of escaping into wilderness
1 minute
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Love and friendship
After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun
15 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
Immerse yourself in the games kids play when the streets are their playground
14 minutes
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Genetics
If trauma can be passed down, could new therapies blunt the transgenerational impact?
9 minutes
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Wellbeing
‘Lean into loneliness like it is holding you’ – a poetic reflection on life in lockdown
5 minutes
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Technology and the self
A handful of executives control the ‘attention economy’. Time for attentive resistance
4 minutes
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Love and friendship
After 30 years of solitude, Peter forms an unlikely friendship with a fellow loner
10 minutes
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Personality
How scars continue to shape the mind long after the tissue has settled
19 minutes