Research on the common strategies used to deal with emotions suggests their usefulness differs from culture to culture ...
When I first met Bill* at a Los Angeles coffee shop I frequent, I thought he was homeless. He was wearing a rumpled, food-stained shirt, and his hair was a matted-down tumbleweed that hadn’t been cut ...
To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...
once prayed 40 times a day; now, he wanders through northern Italy reflecting on freedom. He is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Pavia.
Many of us are drawn to the idea of meditating – motivated, perhaps, by scientific evidence that it supports wellbeing, health and cognition. In practice, though, if you’ve ever downloaded a ...
has been hunting sharks off the southern coast of India for 37 years. He spoke to Bharath Thampi in Malayalam.
It’s not an absurd idea. Research from 2024 concluded that being facially expressive is socially advantageous, suggesting it ...
Sexual obsessive-compulsive disorder is a prevalent subtype of the condition. However, for people who experience it, it seems anything but commonplace, as distressing intrusive thoughts deeply at odds ...
Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed in 70 years, but a mix of chance and ingenuity offers fresh hope ...
Helen Keller describes an ecstatic trans-sensory encounter with Beethoven’s Ninth – in a letter read by Gillian Anderson ...
Inspired by his own experiences, an animator evokes the stormy tides of order and obsession in a striking portrayal of OCD ...