To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

Does society benefit more from freedom or control? A philosopher seeks answers from the father of radical behaviourism ...

For a moment I thought I’d misheard him. The same clinical psychologist who’d given me that diagnosis a few years earlier was ...

There’s no shortage of proclamations about the merits of starting your day early. Aristotle called rising before daylight a ‘healthy habit’, Marcus Aurelius offered a pep talk for getting up when you ...

When Megan Davies was around 11 years old, family dinners became acutely torturous. It was the sounds her parents and six siblings were making: the chewing, slurping, smacking noises that accompany an ...

Ever since Plato started telling stories about people trapped in caves, philosophers have pondered the relationship between the mind and reality. How can we be sure that the world we think we know is ...

How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung ...

Towards the end of every year, many parents find themselves fielding difficult questions, such as: how does a man fly across the entire world in a single night to deliver presents? How does he fit ...

People tell stories all the time: at parties, at dinner with family or friends, at work, in job interviews, on blind dates. Storytelling is pretty much everywhere. But somehow the skill of ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need Our species has a remarkable ability to imagine the future. Though birds, bees, ...

Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid, utter uselessness yields abundance beyond our immediate aims John Alec Baker was not an ornithologist by profession. He had a regular ...