Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

As the father of twins, I could hardly feel more frazzled. But my brain age might paint a different, more youthful, picture ...

Motivation is notoriously fickle. Here’s why having more fun in the moment helps you stick with your goals for the long haul ...

Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future ...

Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom ...

On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too ...

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD ...

In our education, in working at our occupations, a level of compliance with standards is required of us. But total resignation to marching in step is stifling, mind-numbing, soul-killing. Over time it ...

True contact between beings,’ he wrote, ‘is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that ...

A heartfelt animation portrays the evolving relationship between a daughter and her father, who lives with bipolar disorder ...

Memory lapses are a part of life. How many times has someone said hello as if they know you and yet you couldn’t quite place their face? What about returning home from the store only to realise you ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...