Towards the end of every year, many parents find themselves fielding difficult questions, such as: how does a man fly across the entire world in a single night to deliver presents? How does he fit ...

Millions are preparing for doomsday, not together, but by closing the hatch. It’s a logical response to a hollowed-out state A family of six pulls up to the Be Prepared Expo in Farmington, Utah. They ...

You’re in the crowd at the cup final, supporting your football team, when your side suddenly scores. Instantly, you join thousands of others in the stadium roaring with joy: you hug the stranger ...

‘You’re not always like this now,’ I said. I’d seen sober Charlene leave the ER in full high spirits, giggling and flirting ...

Margaret is 67 and, by most measures, doing well. Since leaving her senior role two years ago, she has stayed busy: joining a community board, taking on consultancy work, signing up for courses and ...

More people than ever are going solo. We identified a gender difference that hints at the ingredients needed to enjoy it ‘You’ll be single for the rest of your life’ is the sort of foreboding comment ...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is a notoriously difficult thinker, and students sometimes ask me how I came to be interested in his philosophy, which I have now been studying and writing about for more ...

For Donald Winnicott, your psyche isn’t just in your head – it emerges from your relationships with others and the world Originally a British paediatrician by trade, Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) ...

You know this moment. Your team is heading toward a decision you know is flawed, but everyone else seems aligned, so you stay quiet. A doctor recommends a treatment you have doubts about, and you nod ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

Physics tells us that time doesn’t flow like a river, as Heraclitus claimed. Why then do we feel like we’re swept along? What could be more universal and obvious than this flowing? And yet things are ...

If you’re struggling with debt, you’ll know that it is more than a financial issue. As a psychotherapist, I work every day with people who have ended up in problem debt – debt that is a struggle to ...