How Keeping a Diary Can Save You

How Keeping a Diary Can Save You

Diaries are a forum in which we can raise and then galvanise ourselves into answering the large questions which lie behind the stewardship of our lives: What do I really want? Should I leave? What do I feel for them?…

Kierkegaard on Love

Kierkegaard on Love

One of the most provocative analyses of love ever produced is to be found in the writings of the Danish Existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In a book entitled Works of Love, he proposed a theory which deliberately upset every leading…

Ancient Rome's Answer to Social Shame

Ancient Rome’s Answer to Social Shame

It’s natural for most of us to spend time descending into worry about our reputation: what if we are accused of something, what if we are ostracised, mocked and cancelled? A useful way out of the panic was suggested many…

A Test to Judge How Bad Your Parents Were

A Test to Judge How Bad Your Parents Were

We might think back to our pasts and give our carers a score out of ten to measure how things went. It isn’t unfair or mean sometimes – in the privacy of our own minds – to hold people to…

One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood

One Key Question to Liberate Yourself From Childhood

The most fundamental idea at the heart of modern psychotherapy is that in order to heal ourselves from our neuroses in the present, we have to understand what went on in our childhoods. Sign up to our mailing list to…

The Incredible Promise of Psychedelic Therapy

The Incredible Promise of Psychedelic Therapy

There is a form of therapy which is, right now, in most countries of the world, illegal but which stands to become a dominant way of doing therapy over the coming years and may be the principal route by which…

Charles Darwin - the Descent of Man

Charles Darwin – the Descent of Man

Darwin liked to say he had thought of calling his book “the Ascent of Man” – but that that would suggest some idea of progress. Rather what he wanted to do was show that despite the obvious technical advances of…

How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head

How to Get Your Parents Out of Your Head

The human mind between the ages of one and ten is infinitely attuned to its environment. A somewhat cold forbidding father or an erratic mother really may be all that are required to breed an elevated degree of anxiety or…

The (Often Overlooked) Benefits of Being Ill

The (Often Overlooked) Benefits of Being Ill

It sounds really strange to speak of the upsides of being ill. Surely there are only downsides? Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: For books and more from The School of…

How to Stop People Pleasing and Be Happy

How to Stop People Pleasing and Be Happy

One of the more curious aspects of the ways we are built is that it can take us a very long time indeed to work out what we need in order to be happy. Sign up to our mailing list…