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Psychology

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience
Jelena’s song | Aeon
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Wellbeing

Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past

28 minutes

The space between us | Aeon
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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

Everything is going to be fine | Aeon
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The future

What’s the healthiest way to handle a creeping feeling that the world is ending?

15 minutes

Linda | Aeon
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy

Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship

3 minutes

Life in the buff | Aeon
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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

Eadem cutis: the same skin | Aeon
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Gender and identity

‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ What gender transition means to John

6 minutes

How to be alone | Aeon
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Wellbeing

A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company

3 minutes

The great malaise | Aeon
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Wellbeing

Wry animations expose the gap between anxious aspiration and real life

5 minutes

Hope is not optimism | Aeon
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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

Skin hunger | Aeon
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Wellbeing

A unique theatre performance explores what touch means in an age of lockdown

17 minutes

Hacking enlightenment | Aeon
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Consciousness and altered states

‘Meditation without meditating’ might be possible. Can it also be made ethical?

9 minutes

Rewiring your life | Aeon
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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

Another Hayride | Aeon
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Wellbeing

The controversial New Age guru who believed self-love healed all – even AIDS

18 minutes

Changed by art | Aeon
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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

Gardening with Nietzsche | Aeon
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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

Rooms | Aeon
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Home

How our rooms shape our world, and vice versa

3 minutes

The peace of wild things | Aeon
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Nature and landscape

The poet Wendell Berry reflects on the sublime peace of escaping into wilderness

1 minute

The Starr sisters | Aeon
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Love and friendship

After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun

15 minutes

No ball games | Aeon
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Childhood and adolescence

Immerse yourself in the games kids play when the streets are their playground

14 minutes

The trauma tracer | Aeon
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Genetics

If trauma can be passed down, could new therapies blunt the transgenerational impact?

9 minutes

How to be at home | Aeon
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Wellbeing

‘Lean into loneliness like it is holding you’ – a poetic reflection on life in lockdown

5 minutes

Is our attention for sale? | Aeon
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Technology and the self

A handful of executives control the ‘attention economy’. Time for attentive resistance

4 minutes

Peter and Ben | Aeon
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Love and friendship

After 30 years of solitude, Peter forms an unlikely friendship with a fellow loner

10 minutes

Scars | Aeon
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Personality

How scars continue to shape the mind long after the tissue has settled

19 minutes