Scenes from books, movies and games sometimes carry as much weight as events from people’s own lives. We’re finding out why ...

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My child grew into a new version of himself – as all children do – and I wondered about my new role. Anger helped me grasp it ...

‘Shadow’ is the term used by Carl Gustav Jung to refer to those aspects of yourself that you do not like or want to be associated with. You might even refuse to acknowledge them as being a part of you ...

Have you heard this one before? An ultra-Orthodox Jew breaks the rules by going online, falls in love with stand-up comedy, and starts performing in bars and clubs to help manage his crippling social ...

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In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics ...

Breathwork changed my life, but I heard the sceptics. Several studies later, I’m more convinced than ever in its benefits ...

The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it ...

What do people look at and what meanings do they make when a Kandinsky is on show in a power station guarded by a muscleman?