To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

For a moment I thought I’d misheard him. The same clinical psychologist who’d given me that diagnosis a few years earlier was ...

A trip to the telescopes of the Atacama Desert led me to research showing the benefits of feeling connected to the night sky ...

I envy voracious book readers. They seem worldly and wise. Also, whatever is happening in their lives, they’re never completely on their own – they always have their books. My mother is one of these ...

The British author and adventurer Lucy Irvine found herself, from an early age, at odds with the expectations and conventions into which she was born. Uninterested in the structure of schooling, and ...

People tell stories all the time: at parties, at dinner with family or friends, at work, in job interviews, on blind dates. Storytelling is pretty much everywhere. But somehow the skill of ...

Huston Smith (1919-2016) was one of the preeminent US scholars of religion and comparative philosophy during the 20th century. His distinguished career, which included serving as professor of ...

It is the question I am most often asked at the playground when other parents find out I am a professor of ancient Chinese philosophy: ‘Does Chinese philosophy influence your parenting?’ It’s a fun ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung ...

After a stressful morning at work, Jamie enters the canteen for lunch and looks around for colleagues. Across the room, two women begin to whisper. Although Jamie can’t hear what the women are saying, ...

When Megan Davies was around 11 years old, family dinners became acutely torturous. It was the sounds her parents and six siblings were making: the chewing, slurping, smacking noises that accompany an ...