After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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If experience is a song, mood is the bassline. As your thoughts and sensations flow by, it’s your mood that provides the emotional undercurrent. It predisposes you to respond in certain ways to a ...