Psyche Magazine
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A magazine to help you understand yourself and live well.
Moments of complete absorption – what psychologists call ‘flow’ – are among the most rewarding experiences we can have, and they are more accessible than you might realise. In this Guide, the performance psychologist Susan A Jackson shares practical tools for experiencing more flow
How to enter a state of flow | Psyche Guides
That moment of sweet immersion in the task at hand: that’s flow. With some strategy, you can experience it more often
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By day, Teddy is a security guard – but by night, he is one of only a few male birth doulas in the state of Texas. In this short documentary, the US director Lauren Santucci captures his calming presence
Birth doulas are almost exclusively female. Enter Teddy | Psyche Videos
As a security guard and childbirth doula, Teddy challenges stereotypes of masculinity with knowledge, calm and care
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In today’s Turning Point the writer Evan E Lambert reveals how he became an undercover carnivore while working for an animal rights activist group and what it taught him about himself
My double life came to a head when I pretended to be vegan | Psyche Turning Points
An animal rights group offered a rare job opportunity. How hard could it be to play along?
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Stranded between ‘low’ and ‘high’ art, the middlebrow is often unfairly dismissed. In today’s Idea, the philosophers Aaron Meskin and Jonathan Weinberg explore what middlebrow actually is, how this reputation came about and why we should reconsider it
Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow | Psyche Ideas
Long stranded between ‘low’ and ‘high’ art, to rescue the middlebrow from cultural condemnation, we must first ask what it is
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Far from being a waste of time, the regrets that haunt you reveal more about who you are than your successes ever could. An Idea by Joshua Halberstam
Your deepest regrets help you see yourself more clearly | Psyche Ideas
Far from being a waste of time, the regrets that haunt you reveal more about who you are than your successes ever could
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The chaotic and joyful musical moment in 1978 when two punk bands played a gig at a psychiatric hospital in California.
How two punk bands came to play a California psychiatric hospital | Psyche Videos
The chaotic and joyful musical moment in 1978 when two punk bands played a gig at a psychiatric hospital in California
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The Korean concept of jeong describes a slowly accumulating affection, like the way you might feel toward a cashier at your local shop or an acquaintance at the gym. This Note to Self asks you to appreciate these daily interactions, as they might have a greater impact than you know
In praise of the not-quite-friends who make us smile | Psyche Notes to Self
Learning about the Korean concept of ‘jeong’ helped me understand the importance of my not-quite-friends at the gym
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Today’s Video draws on one woman’s experience of hoarding disorder to challenge the stigma that surrounds the condition and offer practical advice for those suffering
Why people hoard, and how you can help them | Psyche Videos
‘All this stuff is my trauma’: one woman’s experience of the much misunderstood and stigmatised hoarding disorder
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In this captivating portrait, D Watkins takes us behind the incredible career of basketball superstar Carmelo ‘Melo’ Anthony, as someone who first encountered him as a teenage prodigy in Baltimore. After reaching such heights, Melo confronts what remains after the performance
The NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony on life after basketball | Psyche Portraits
For 19 years, the NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony mastered the version of himself the world demanded. Retired from basketball, he confronts a harder question: who is he now?
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In today’s Idea, the philosopher Joshua Halberstam discusses the psychology of regret and explains why it can teach you more about yourself than your successes ever could
Your deepest regrets help you see yourself more clearly | Psyche Ideas
Far from being a waste of time, the regrets that haunt you reveal more about who you are than your successes ever could
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In this short documentary, the US directors Mike Plante and Jason Willis explore the explosive 1970s art scene that led two iconic punk bands to play a show at a Calfornia psychiatric hospital and the lasting impacts of US government efforts to defund and privatise mental healthcare
How two punk bands came to play a California psychiatric hospital | Psyche Videos
The chaotic and joyful musical moment in 1978 when two punk bands played a gig at a psychiatric hospital in California
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In this Idea, a psychoanalyst offers an explanation behind the rise of muscle dysmorphia or ‘bigorexia’ and how he would treat it
Why some men seek refuge in ever bigger muscles | Psyche Ideas
Diagnoses of muscle dysmorphia or ‘bigorexia’ are rising. A psychoanalytic lens offers an explanation – and a healthier path
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Close the intention-action gap and live the way you want, using insights from the cognitive neuroscience of habits. A Guide by @eikekofi.bsky.social
How to become the person you want to be | Psyche Guides
Close the intention-action gap and live the way you want, using insights from the cognitive neuroscience of habits
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The filmmaker Mathias de Panafieu turns an exchange with his grandfather about his memories of the Second World War into an affecting animation.
Jacques recalls the odd calm of marching into battle in wartime France | Psyche Videos
A filmmaker turns an exchange with his grandfather about his memories of the Second World War into an affecting animation
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In this Note to Self, the writer Hannah Seo reflects on society's ridicule of feminine voices, a tendency that dates back to the ancient world
Sexist thinking about feminine voices goes way, way back | Psyche Notes to Self
As a girl, I felt I should change my voice. Anne Carson’s writing on the ancient Greeks shows how old that pressure is
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‘Anxiety doesn’t get smaller, your life gets bigger first.’ In this insightful and practical video, the clinical psychologist Ali Mattu presents five strategies for engaging with, rather than avoiding, life as an anxious person.
Five research-backed strategies for living fully with anxiety | Psyche Videos
Your anxiety may never fully recede. Here’s five research-backed strategies to help you live a life bigger than your fear
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The ubiquity of smartphones has disrupted the way we witness horrific events and graphic content. If one cannot avoid the stream, the question is how to witness differently – recognising what can be meaningfully held and acted upon, within our cognitive and emotional limits
Don’t turn away from tragedy, but do witness intentionally | Psyche Ideas
Chronic exposure to the world’s horror has a mental cost. Being an effective witness requires a more sustainable approach
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My first foray into public scientific writing published in @psyche.co. Based on this paper with @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, @marcoaqil.bsky.social, and Selen Atasoy. Hope you enjoy 🙂
Psyche Magazine@psyche.co · 3w agoCarl Jung’s archetypes have long been dismissed as unscientific – but what if they are real, having emerged as part of our evolutionary journey? In this bold Idea, the researcher Hugh McGovern lays out the results from recent trials exploring archetypes through psychedelic drugs
In today’s Guide, the cognitive neuroscientist Eike Buabang dispels common misconceptions about habit formation and offers a step by step approach to building better habits and breaking undesirable ones
How to become the person you want to be | Psyche Guides
Close the intention-action gap and live the way you want, using insights from the cognitive neuroscience of habits
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In this Video, the French filmmaker Mathias de Panafieu turns an exchange with his grandfather about his memories of the Second World War into an affecting animation
Jacques recalls the odd calm of marching into battle in wartime France | Psyche Videos
A filmmaker turns an exchange with his grandfather about his memories of the Second World War into an affecting animation
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In this intriguing Idea, the medical researcher William McCarthy interweaves clinical research, contemporary testimony from local Indigenous peoples and an analysis of millennia-old rock art to explore what these rituals can teach us about using psychedelics for medical purposes today
Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are | Psyche Ideas
Psychedelics and neuroscience seem to support his ideas about ancestral dreams and fears – but with an evolutionary twist
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In today’s Turning Point, Devin A Giordano, an incarcerated writer reflects on how the stillness of prison forced him to stop avoiding his thoughts and become comfortable living in the present
In the stillness of prison, I learned how to be alone | Psyche Turning Points
I wanted to outrun my thoughts. But in the stillness of prison, I had no choice but to face myself
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No rent, no mortgage: rejecting easy comfort, a revolutionary homebuilder has found his own version of a successful life.
The ‘godfather of tiny homes’ has spent a lifetime changing his mind | Psyche Videos
No rent, no mortgage: rejecting easy comfort, a revolutionary homebuilder has found his own version of a successful life
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As a child, you knew the thrill of conjuring with a pencil. Reclaim that pleasure with these activities (no talent needed). A Guide by Andrea Kantrowitz
How to rediscover the joy of drawing | Psyche Guides
As a child, you knew the thrill of conjuring with a pencil. Reclaim that pleasure with these activities (no talent needed)
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Carl Jung’s archetypes have long been dismissed as unscientific – but what if they are real, having emerged as part of our evolutionary journey? In this bold Idea, the researcher Hugh McGovern lays out the results from recent trials exploring archetypes through psychedelic drugs
Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are | Psyche Ideas
Psychedelics and neuroscience seem to support his ideas about ancestral dreams and fears – but with an evolutionary twist
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Amid the countercultural movement flourishing in San Francisco in the 1960s, Lloyd Kahn forged his own path as a homebuilder. This short documentary finds Kahn at his hand-built homestead in California, where he reflects on what makes an ideal shelter and a successful life
The ‘godfather of tiny homes’ has spent a lifetime changing his mind | Psyche Videos
No rent, no mortgage: rejecting easy comfort, a revolutionary homebuilder has found his own version of a successful life
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The trauma therapist Hope Bastine has seen first-hand in her work the consequences of being raised by authoritarian parents. In this Idea, Bastine explores why so many fall into this parenting style and what a healthier alternative might look like
What draws well-meaning parents to authoritarian parenting? | Psyche Ideas
In my therapy room, I’ve seen the costs of the controlling impulse. Winnicott and Rogers show us healthier alternatives
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As children, we draw and doodle all the time, but few of us put pencil to paper as adults, often for fear of not being ‘good enough’. In this delightful Guide, the artist and educator Andrea Kantrowitz helps us rediscover the inherent joy of drawing beyond dichotomies of good and bad
How to rediscover the joy of drawing | Psyche Guides
As a child, you knew the thrill of conjuring with a pencil. Reclaim that pleasure with these activities (no talent needed)
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We can never truly predict how major life events will go, or who we will be after they happen. In this short video, the professor of philosophy and cognitive science L A Paul makes a case for what she calls ‘epistemic humility’ when leaping into the unknown
Why major life decisions should be approached with ‘epistemic humility’ | Psyche Videos
At a crossroads in life? No matter how much you deliberate, one unknowable remains: the person you will be on the other side
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Reminiscing with her brother’s bandmates, a filmmaker pieces together a life of music, friendship, dreams and addiction.
Tracing the making and unmaking of four friends’ rockstar dreams | Psyche Videos
Reminiscing with her brother’s bandmates, a filmmaker pieces together a life of music, friendship, dreams and addiction
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