Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem This week, a woman was strolling in my street, walking in circles and speaking ...

What if, alongside scheduling appointments, meetings, and social events in your calendar, you started to allocate specific times just to be by yourself – to enjoy solitude? I propose this thought ...

Scientists are uncovering the nature of an elusive mental experience that challenges what it means to be conscious ...

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 ...

‘A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t really.’ Such is the view of David Rees, a self-styled ‘artisanal pencil-sharpener’ who, at the time of this short film’s ...

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 ...

Caught between Czech culture and Vietnamese heritage, an animator reflects on growing up as a stranger in her own home ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

Rather than trying to leave behind beloved art by immoral artists, let philosophy offer you a model for engaging with it Reflecting on her long-standing love of Edward Scissorhands (1990) amid ...

I brought my newborn to visit a hospice patient. It took me far from what I’d thought medicine was ...

Women have been witty and bawdy throughout history. It’s only recently that men haven’t been able to see their funny side Maybe you’ve heard that women are not funny. It’s a stereotype that has often ...