psyche.coadded August 2026
Psycheby Rajeev Balasubramanyam10h ago
Two years ago, I attended the funeral of someone I’d known who had taken his own life. He was 40 when he did it. I’d known him since he was 14, his brother one of my closest friends.
Psycheby Celine Nguyen1d ago
The year after I graduated from university – from a degree that I struggled through dutifully and mostly dispassionately – I began to feel that I had missed out on an actual education.
Psycheby Vicky Reynal2d ago
If you’re struggling with debt, you’ll know that it is more than a financial issue. As a psychotherapist, I work every day with people who have ended up in problem debt – debt that is a struggle to...
Psycheby Sarah Emmerson3d ago
‘I’m just not strong enough to handle it. My mother did all this and she had three kids. I can’t even cope with one. I’m pathetic.’ Andrea* looks down, avoiding my gaze.
Psycheby Anandi Mishra6d ago
While I’ve come across various literary and artistic works praising the art of looking, what truly led me down this path was Nirmal Verma’s Ek Chithda Sukh (1979), translated as A Rag Called...
Psycheby Sasi S Senga7d ago
I remember reading the words brain metastases on my phone between surgical cases. As the message arrived, the hospital corridor around me continued its ordinary rhythm. Doors opened and closed.
Psycheby Liam Heneghan8d ago
The grandmother hypothesis is well known. Grandmothers are said to improve evolutionary fitness, helping children survive and families endure across generations.
Psycheby Brandon Yip9d ago
‘Disgusting’ and similar words are flung across political divides quite often today. For example, the US president Donald Trump has used the word to describe his political opponents, journalists...
Psycheby Nancy Averett10d ago
Stanislas Dehaene enters a small library inside the mansion that houses the French ministry of education.
Psycheby HennyGe Wichers13d ago
I’m standing in the pouring rain trying to retrieve a parcel from a locker wall that just won’t open. I call the help desk and am greeted by Matt, a customer service chatbot.
Psycheby Kiki Fehling15d ago
‘It’s such a relief to finally be in a room with people who just get it.’ I heard this message a lot when I was providing group therapy sessions for LGBTQ+ clients.
Psycheby Francesca Righetti16d ago
We tend to talk about our relationships as either satisfying or unsatisfying, healthy or toxic. This either/or perspective shapes a lot of relationship advice, and filters through to the ways many...
Psycheby Keith Kahn-Harris17d ago
I am grateful no one else is in the room with me. In principle, I’ve no problem with my family seeing me cry: but blinking away hot salty tears while watching Ozzy Osbourne?
Psycheby Håkon Evjemo20d ago
In 2021, while working from home at my corporate law gig, I became obsessed with napping. Throughout my working life, the post-lunch slump felt like an unavoidable feature of the 9-to-5.
Psycheby Hannah Seo21d ago
I will confess that, when it comes to sports, I am a fair-weather fan. I like basketball but had little interest in the New York Knicks until they made it to the NBA finals in June.
Psycheby Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston22d ago
An 81-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s is living in a retirement home in Iceland. She hasn’t recognised her family or spoken a word to them in a year.
Psycheby Sandra Lamb23d ago
The phone rang five times, and then it rang some more. I was calling from Charlotte, North Carolina – wedged into the cracked-leather passenger seat of a friend’s Honda, my suitcase still exhaling...
Psycheby Jennifer Farrell24d ago
is a counselling psychologist and co-owner of a private practice in Florida. Her work explores self-awareness, relational patterns, and interpersonal dynamics.
Psycheby Abílio Almeida27d ago
My grandmother, Tina, was born in the 1930s in a small village in northern Portugal. She had a difficult life. Widowed young, she was forced to raise 13 children on her own.
Psycheby Amy Arthur28d ago
Last month, while watching Christopher Nolan’s new epic The Odyssey, I couldn’t help but marvel at the patience of Penelope, who waits 20 years for her husband – the king, Odysseus – to return to...
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