Editor, Psyche Magazine psyche.co | SPSP award-winning author of BE WHO YOU WANT | Contributor @sciencefocus | bsky.app/profile/christianja…
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Holocaust survivor Ervin Staub: how to stop evil taking root psyche.co/portraits/holocaus… The latest and very moving Psyche Portrait. Ervin Staub survived the Holocaust as a child. As a psychologist, he spent a lifetime asking how cruelty takes hold – and whether kindness can, too
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How to be defiant psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-d… By @ProfSunitaSah Staying silent often feels like the safe choice, but the costs can be profound. Here’s how to stand up for yourself
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How to navigate your menopause psyche.co/guides/how-to-navi… by clinical neuropsychologist Caroline Gurvich & provisional psychologist Rachel Furey. From coping w/ hot flushes to understanding brain fog, there’s plenty you can do to help yourself through menopause @psyche_the_mag
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True resilience is not about bouncing back psyche.co/ideas/true-resilie… I hate talk of resilience: it places an expectation on people to return to how they were. That’s not how real recovery works. New Psyche Idea by Philip T Starks @TuftsUniversity @psyche_the_mag
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How to practise a musical instrument psyche.co/guides/how-to-prac… New Psyche Guide by @craig_ogden @psyche_the_mag Everything that involves skill requires practice. Use the AIR method – awareness, isolation, repetition – to improve
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Choreography so good. Michael Jackson - Human Nature (Official Video) youtu.be/YNzuiRuQNYY?si=FYEg… via @YouTube
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If you read one thing today make it this by the wonderful @rkarnad on our national treasure Romila Thapar
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"Thapar was in her 50s by the time India’s feminist movement arrived in strength in the 1980s. She is a committed feminist... but never felt a need to ‘write volumes on the status of women’ herself." @rkarnad psyche.co/portraits/romila-t…
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Why it’s so hard to agree on what counts as true psyche.co/ideas/why-its-so-h… New research has mapped people’s contrasting conceptions of the truth. No wonder so many arguments feel irresolvable
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Turn off your sleep tracker psyche.co/notes-to-self/to-s… By @ProfAMGregory for Psyche @psyche_the_mag
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Try seeing your personality as dimensional psyche.co/notes-to-self/the-… First Psyche Note to Self by @a_e_arthur @psyche_the_mag I recently learned the distinction between seeing personality in terms of types vs traits – the latter is liberating
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If we avoid sadness in life, why do we seek it in art? psyche.co/ideas/if-we-avoid-… New Psyche Idea by Tara Venkatesan @UMG Philosophers and psychologists have puzzled over the allure of tragic art. New findings show how sadness can be a comfort
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Why chatbot therapists can’t offer what we need psyche.co/ideas/why-chatbot-… Today’s world is fuelling a craving to be truly seen by another – and that’s exactly what AI therapists can’t ever deliver. Psyche Idea by Wasseem El Sarraj @psyche_the_mag
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The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held psyche.co/ideas/the-capacity… The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude. Psyche Idea by Elizabeth Burns Dyer @psyche_the_mag
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A common misunderstanding about genetics psyche.co/notes-to-self/misu… New Note Self by @ProfAMGregory for Psyche. People’s misunderstanding of terms like ‘heritability’ shows how important it is to communicate science carefully
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How to reconnect with your inner child: psyche.co/guides/how-to-reco… The experiences you had as a child influence your emotional life as an adult. Recognising these dynamics can be healing. New Psyche Guide by psychotherapist Nickan Arzpeyma
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Finding solace in Murderbot psyche.co/notes-to-self/why-… My latest 'Note to Self' for Psyche magazine @psyche_the_mag
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How to reclaim your attention: psyche.co/guides/how-to-recl… By @YousriMarzouki for @psyche_the_mag Psychological minimalism is a way to clarify your life by cutting the mental noise from your environment and routines
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Science, serendipity and a new era for schizophrenia treatment psyche.co/ideas/science-sere… By Jeremy Hall for Psyche magazine. Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed in 70 years, but a mix of chance and ingenuity offers fresh hope
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