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
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
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…
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
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
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
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…
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…