How did humans create the earliest words? Iconic vocal sounds, which match form and meaning, likely played a key role Language gives us the power to describe, virtually without limit, the countless ...

Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? Or merely help us adjust to an ‘insane’ system? Erich Fromm on mental health in 1960 ...

In this riveting dive into cognition, meaning-making and human progress, Judy Fan, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University, explores how we transform abstract concepts into ...

Sartre’s phenomenology reveals the shift from subject to object (and back) is not just grammar. It is a matter of power ...

In the sensory and communal modes of healing that people have used throughout history, there is guidance for today ...

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Standard features of human memory and learning can help explain the disorientation that follows the death of a loved one When a loved one dies, many of us fall very suddenly into a disorienting new ...

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 ...

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.

According to the French philosopher Pierre Hadot (1922-2010), ancient philosophy was something that had to be practised at each instant, and the goal of which was to transform the whole of the ...

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics We live in a paradoxical time: despite the proliferation of critical thinking ...

Visualisation activates similar brain areas as real-life experiences. Here’s how to use mental imagery to improve results ...