Defying the predetermined shapes of her world, a woman must carve out her own space in this stunning, surreal animation ...

Like billions of people, I use caffeine. But there is a glaring double standard in the drugs we stigmatise or celebrate ...

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose ...

Many think the answer is obvious: we ought to cut immoral people out of our lives. But that isn’t necessarily the best option ...

Ever feel like a word or person you just learned about has been showing up repeatedly? There’s a term for that ...

On stage as Mr Fruit Salad, I’ve seen for myself the power of the bizarre and ridiculous to convey what words can’t ...

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What if you couldn’t picture anything in your mind – no sunset, no loved one’s face, not even an apple? This inability to ‘see’ mental images is known as aphantasia, and although it affects roughly 3 ...

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.

After some three decades studying emotions, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, has come to the following conclusion: ‘Not everybody has as much ...

Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world Human memory appears to be terribly flawed. We forget. We misremember. We ...

Small talk – those fleeting conversations with someone you don’t know well, or are meeting for the first time – is few people’s favourite thing, and many people’s least favourite thing. But, as Matt ...