Psychology

On the radio this morning, someone was talking about a new BBC series in which celebrities (of course) are to be interviewed about their younger selves…
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What really goes on in the run-up to menopause?
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So many people have written about Cormac McCarthy since his death on 13 June that I’ve felt a little over-full and couldn’t seem to find words of my own…
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After I wrote the last piece here about the Post-Heroic Journey, I started to think about it in the context of all the challenges we’re facing today…
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An antidote to the all-conquering Hero
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Or – what do women want?
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Those of us who are students of history, and others of us who are walking around with our eyes wide open and something resembling a long view, can…
My psychology studies didn't begin well. In the first lecture I ever attended, a sardonic disbeliever-in-everything thoroughly and mockingly debunked…
I never intended to write a memoir; it was the furthest thing from my mind. I intended to write a book on place, on how myth and story can bring us back…