Psychology

Learning to be happier

In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the science of happiness. It worked – but why?

Bruce Hood

Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest

11 minutes

A reader’s guide to microdosing

How to use small doses of psychedelics to lift your mood, enhance your focus, and fire your creativity

Tunde Aideyan

People not professionals

Training individuals to support one another through difficult times is a profound step forward in our mental health crisis

Arjun Kapoor & Jasmine Kalha

Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past

28 minutes

The space between us

In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads

James Barnes

Pondering the peculiar one-sided intimacy of the client-therapist relationship

3 minutes

‘When you’re done, you stay human!’ What gender transition means to John

6 minutes

A tender poem doubles as a guide to sitting comfortably in one’s own company

3 minutes

Wry animations expose the gap between anxious aspiration and real life

5 minutes

Hope is not optimism

Even when you know that prospects are grim, hope can help. It’s not just a feeling, but a way to step into the future

David B Feldman & Benjamin W Corn

A unique theatre performance explores what touch means in an age of lockdown

17 minutes

‘Meditation without meditating’ might be possible. Can it also be made ethical?

9 minutes

Rewiring your life

A radical therapy based on eye movements can desensitise painful memories, heal hurts and aid transformation at warp speed

Deborah Korn

The controversial New Age guru who believed self-love healed all – even AIDS

18 minutes