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Ideas

Thought-provoking articles about human nature from diverse thinkers

You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip | Psyche

Engagement and activism

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You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

by Claudia R Schneider

Music

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True musical virtuosos are minimalists who put roll before rock

by Mike Edison

Slow medicine, like slow food, puts people ahead of profit | Psyche

Therapeutic relationships

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Slow medicine, like slow food, puts people ahead of profit

by Mariam Tokhi

The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus | Psyche

Stories and literature

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The plague novel you need to read is by Bachmann, not Camus

by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world | Psyche

Personality

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Introverts are excluded unfairly in an extraverts’ world

by Noa Herz

In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work | Psyche

Work and vocation

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In an unstable economy, I found freedom and security in sex work

by Tamara MacLeod

There are many reasons why therapy can be more effective outside | Psyche

Psychotherapy

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There are many reasons why therapy can be more effective outside

by Sam Cooley

Much ado about uncertainty: how Shakespeare navigates doubt | Psyche

Theatre and performance

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Much ado about uncertainty: how Shakespeare navigates doubt

by Lorenzo Zucca

Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it | Psyche

Parenting and families

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Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it

by Arianne Shahvisi

Are mental health patients entitled to see their medical notes? | Psyche

Therapeutic relationships

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Are mental health patients entitled to see their medical notes?

by Charlotte Blease

Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one? | Psyche

Ethical living

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Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?

by Roman Krznaric

The self

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The self of self-help books is adrift from social and economic facts

by Craig Schamel