With stigma and misunderstanding surrounding mental health, it’s vital to know the benefits and limits of a formal diagnosis Just as nearly everyone experiences physical health problems such as ...

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

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

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

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.

The British author and adventurer Lucy Irvine found herself, from an early age, at odds with the expectations and conventions into which she was born. Uninterested in the structure of schooling, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us look outside ourselves for relief from life’s big and small stresses. If you sometimes reach for alcohol to manage anger, go online to shop for things you do not need in order to tackle ...

Your social anxiety nightmare has arrived: an email inviting you to attend a networking event pops into your inbox. Networking events are a special breed of social interaction that are packed with ...

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After a stressful morning at work, Jamie enters the canteen for lunch and looks around for colleagues. Across the room, two women begin to whisper. Although Jamie can’t hear what the women are saying, ...