The way you relate to other people emotionally – your attachment style – matters greatly in life. Studies that have followed the same individuals for decades have found that the ability to initiate ...

Many situations in life that are supposed to be fun also involve a high degree of uncertainty: dates with strangers, rollercoasters with unpredictable twists and turns, unrehearsed karaoke. For those ...

Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity ...

Unemployed and isolated, the residents of a hikikomori rehab centre hold up a mirror to a society that’s failing them Chujo has been a hikikomori for two years. He dreams of becoming an opera singer, ...

Worry is one of the most common ways that anxiety shows up in life. It fills our minds with nerve-wracking thoughts about the future. What if I forget what to say during my speech? How will I make ...

Therapy is a place where you can open your life to a stranger whose role is to help you come to terms with, evaluate and change how you understand yourself and how you live. Therapy can begin a ...

‘I’m so tired of hearing about she/they/them.’ ‘Those people had it coming.’ ‘You’re too fat to date.’ As a counselling psychologist, I have listened to thousands of people struggle with the difficult ...

Contrary to classic habit science, certain behaviours never become easy. Recognising this can help you stick with them ...

Psychologists once thought of ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) as a disorder that mainly affects children, but we now know that at least 60 per cent of ...

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...

But his most memorable job remains making bread with those labeled unfit to live in society. At 5 am, a correction officer ...

The other day, I found out that one of my close friends had an extra ticket to a football playoff game, and he invited another friend instead of me. Hurt by this apparent slight, I thought I must have ...