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Articles tagged with mind-and-psychology
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven reminds us of the radical power of collective imagination.
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
How philosophical thinking can make truthfulness possible even when the truth can barely be fathomed.
This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.
Trump is the latest in a long line of politicians who have leveraged the fear of white voters. A new path forward must address the structures and finances that propagate, sustain, and shamelessly benefit from it.
Adhering to a particular sexual or gender identity may mean abandoning the things that make us most unique. So why has identity become the default for talking about who we are and what we desire?
A new book wants us to navigate life’s crossroads with the precision of a military exercise. But personal decisions are more difficult than even the most consequential political decisions.
Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children.
