Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? Or merely help us adjust to an ‘insane’ system? Erich Fromm on mental health in 1960 ...

If you’re like most people, you probably have at least one insecurity or past experience that you keep close to the vest, something you wouldn’t want most people to know. It might be a memory of when ...

In 1985, the author Frank White coined the term ‘overview effect’ to describe something striking that happens to people who have been to space. The term would become the title of White’s 1987 book ...

Many, if not most, long-distance relationships don’t start off long distance. A good American friend of mine met her British husband while they were both studying abroad; it took them six years and a ...

Ashley, a 37-year-old woman whose name we’ve changed to protect her confidentiality, first started dating a man we’ll call John when she was 19. For the first nine years of the relationship, they ...

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 ...

Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need Our species has a remarkable ability to imagine the future. Though birds, bees, ...

As a resident tutor, I’ve seen how students are using AI as more than a tool. It’s a psychological shift we’ll soon all make ‘ChatGPT thinks my crush is sending mixed signals,’ my student said, ...

It’s extremely common to feel lonely when you’re young. Many strategies can help, the key is finding what works for you Loneliness can be defined as a negative emotional reaction to a discrepancy ...

Few things derail a conversation – or even entire relationships – faster than someone going on the defensive. It’s a problem that plays out in many contexts, from the personal to the professional: ...

Picture yourself on a bus. You’ve had a terrible day, your mood is far from ideal. Suddenly, you feel a sharp pain in your foot: someone has just stepped on it with a pair of heavy hiking boots.

In this lecture at the Royal Institution in London, Foulkes presents arguments from her book Losing Our Minds (2021) to make a meticulous yet empathetic case that several serious problems have emerged ...