is a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia, US. Her poetry, essays and feature articles have been published by The New ...

Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world ...

Sometimes, when I’m grappling with a tricky topic, I pretend that I need to explain it to a child. For example, here is my attempt at explaining the purpose of this Guide to a notional nine-year-old: ...

Charlotte Hastings is a psychodynamic counsellor trained in systemic family therapy, with a background in anthropology, teaching and parenting. She presents the podcast Kitchen Sessions, teaches ...

Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change ...

Everyone seems on edge these days. Turning on the news or scrolling through your social media feed provides a constant stream of things to worry about. Many countries have witnessed rapid growth in ...

It’s not just youth’s happy memories that have a special weight Mixed in with the highly memorable rites of growing up are more troubling highlights. But these, too, can have enduring value by ...

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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?

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

Whether an act seems ‘good’ depends on how you look at it. Brain research reveals what happens when the lens changes ...

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