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

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

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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 ...