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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 10/06/2026

If Psyche has helped you know yourself and live well, join the readers who are sustaining our work by donating to Psyche buff.ly/03cf3cg

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 03/06/2026

We're halfway through our donation drive – the perfect time to join our supporters. Whether you're after a deep dive into a Guide or a quick thought-snack, we curate Psyche to fit into your life psyche.co/donate

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 27/05/2026

This moving and powerful Portrait follows Ervin Staub, a Holocaust survivor turned psychologist who has spent his life examining a simple question with vast consequences: how to be good in bad times and encourage altruism in the face of evil buff.ly/V25ZUvX

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 23/05/2026

Psyche offers you guidance, companionship and inspiration in these challenging times. Our editors seek out experts from a diverse range of fields to share their perspectives on living well. Join our donation drive and help us keep this blend of trusted voices free psyche.co/donate

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 20/05/2026

Psyche’s mission is to freely share the guidance, insights and knowledge of experts from many disciplines and life experiences. To support this mission, we’re launching our donation drive this week – support us in continuing to offer Psyche’s diverse resources for free for everyone psyche.co/donate

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 09/02/2026

Psyche audio helps you better understand yourself and others through expert guides, provocative ideas and personal life stories. Listen now on Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/7VZPFcX And Spotify: buff.ly/FtlgaV7

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 06/02/2026

The personal essay can sometimes get a bad rap – too confessional, too self-involved. But Psyche’s Life Stories editor Alizeh Kohari is here to change your mind: personal essays capture something essential about our shared humanity, finding the universal in the personal psyche.co/life-stories

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19/12/2025

Psyche articles are now available to listen to on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen now! buff.ly/MqeYxAB

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 20/11/2025

What can we learn by taking transcendent UFO stories seriously? A filmmaker takes a leap of faith when he decides to risk ridicule and make a serious film about UFO sightings. Watch the full documentary here buff.ly/t0sD89o

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19/11/2025

How do we uphold our commitment to publishing trustworthy essays? Aeon’s senior production editor explains the meticulous editorial processes that safeguard our standards, from rigorous fact-checking and testing narrative coherence to clarifying complex ideas without losing nuance buff.ly/dOdEheS

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 31/10/2025

As Seneca said – ‘we are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality’. During Halloween, we play with fear, turning what is often considered a negative experience into a source of fun and amusement. Discover Psyche’s fear week at the link in our bio.

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 21/10/2025

A fresh investigation of vast numbers of young people from around the world has thrown up some surprising results and raised an important question: Is narcissism really on the rise among younger generations? buff.ly/PtP8V2k

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 08/10/2025

In this layered portrait of life on the streets of Los Angeles, strife is interlaced with moments of joy and solidarity. A film directed by Chung Nguyen. buff.ly/6E7qdPX

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 02/10/2025

A gay man’s ethical angst over sexuality and faith transforms into a revelatory experience that lifts the burden and leaves behind lightness and hope. Read the story here: buff.ly/74LpEtL

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 23/09/2025

As a crime reporter, the author wrote about people behind bars. But she learned much more when she befriended an incarcerated writer buff.ly/OL3rvSY

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19/09/2025

Orgasms are often thought of as ineffable – so what happens when someone attempts to put the experience into words? In Come, the filmmaker Bronwen Parker-Rhodes captures several womentrying to articulate the experience, blending anatomical, metaphorical, and poetic insights buff.ly/m0FcodT

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 26/08/2025

Flirtatious texts are soon forgotten. This Guide from the Psyche archive breaks down how to express your feelings in a beautiful way that will make a lasting impression buff.ly/YckGEFp

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19/08/2025

An encounter with a psychic medium had a remarkable impact on the author and led her to reconnect with her late mother, sparking intense personal reflections about what is real, what is not and the nature of grief, healing, and connection buff.ly/O89b8H9

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 12/08/2025

Two decades of anorexia obscured who the author was beneath her sickness. Then a stranger saw her. Read this Story of Change here: buff.ly/m1R5fJG

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 09/08/2025

For Aboriginal peoples, knowledge is specific to cultures: what is true and relevant for one might not be so for another. On #InternationalDayoftheWorldsIndigenousPeoples, we honour the knowledge embedded in living landscapes that connects land, memory, and community buff.ly/pp0dSOZ

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 01/08/2025

Feeling like life is speeding up? This week's theme on Psyche is 'go slow', featuring a mix of new content and archive gems. Take a breath and explore more on Psyche: buff.ly/egCoHHa buff.ly/yzkCxzK buff.ly/K6olHpI buff.ly/TtAcqFJ buff.ly/J333Kq8

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 25/07/2025

A wolf encounter in the Canadian Arctic taught the author a profound lesson in authentic living and how confronting vulnerability in the wild can redefine your understanding of responsibility buff.ly/SmyhjnU

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 25/07/2025

‘Our pursuits of the good – conceived as freedom from suffering – are doomed to tragic outcomes‘ Nietzsche's philosophy on human entanglement with nature challenges our long-held notions of exceptionalism buff.ly/3Q1jyI0

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 22/07/2025

Research suggests that people who express their gratitude more effusively are judged as lower status and less influential. Read this Note to Self here buff.ly/VmfuwRE

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 14/07/2025

Swapping office work for the herding life, Adham finds a sublime freedom in the rugged terrain of the Pyrenees. Watch this Psyche-exclusive short documentary directed by Jake Joynson here: buff.ly/BOQtGwB

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 04/07/2025

Scientists offer a new way to compare and contrast social ties – like a ‘Big Five’ for relationships. What are those five dimensions? buff.ly/LSeYjQ5

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 02/07/2025

Two puny words shoulder a substantial, if diffuse, philosophical outlook: ‘as if’. The phrase captures the latent but necessary hopes that get us over the obstacles to living well buff.ly/eRA76Nt

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 30/06/2025

In this Animation, the psychologist Alison Gopnik makes a case that caring for the vulnerable puts us in touch with our deepest humanity @alisongopnik.bsky.social buff.ly/ikQ2g1E

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 27/06/2025

‘My reservations about quitting were just a product of a brain seeking spikes of dopamine’ Read Michael’s reflections on hitting rock bottom, the long road to recovery, and the clarity, creativity and connection he found beyond alcohol here: buff.ly/S5kjTjh

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 26/06/2025

This little-known story of the philosopher and the president is remarkable: it is perhaps the most important diplomatic intervention by a philosopher, and a reminder, as if we needed it, of the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings buff.ly/ckC9Ghc

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 26/06/2025

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling buff.ly/4kn97zf

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 25/06/2025

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, Johnson Weree creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands. Watch the full Psyche exclusive video here: buff.ly/U8u8Egf

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 24/06/2025

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self buff.ly/6vT8CUj

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 23/06/2025

‘I had written many pages about dog personhood and agency prior to this – but now I could feel their personhood, the certainty of it, like never before.’ What happens when a philosopher of animals gets attacked by a dog? buff.ly/bagcDuR

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 21/06/2025

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung at the age of 84, just two years before his death, surveying his life and reflecting on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future buff.ly/JaWHvbS

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 20/06/2025

Mind-wandering, far from being mere distraction, is potentially a key part of how we connect our sense of self with the world around us. While some people tune into bodily sensations when daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD buff.ly/PqXMmrP

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 20/06/2025

When her daughter was bullied at school, one mother made a bold choice: to take education into her own hands. 'Why hadn’t any of my chemistry teachers highlighted the beauty of this? That there is a name and a place for every element – known and unknown' buff.ly/61U91Re

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 18/06/2025

A growing body of research suggests there are myriad psychological benefits to feeling small in the face of nature’s vastness: it dampens the ego, and fosters feelings of humility, reciprocity and generosity buff.ly/qHvUdeR

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 17/06/2025

If eating certain foods or having ‘too much’ triggers guilt and self-blame, it’s time to explore a less punishing mindset buff.ly/TrwzR4n

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 17/06/2025

‘True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer’ buff.ly/wUL1uoT

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 16/06/2025

‘This was the first time that I had ever felt a disconnect between what a Christian adult was telling me and what I saw with my own eyes.’ Confessions of a teenage fundamentalist buff.ly/w7go2OU

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 14/06/2025

Internal family systems (IFS) therapy offers some surprising ways to think about who you are and work towards greater self-acceptance. In today’s Guide, the late certified practitioner Derek Scott shows you how to get started buff.ly/IGgOPVd

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 13/06/2025

What if ‘stress reduction’ is the least interesting thing mindfulness does? Understood through complexity science, sati offers a way of recovering the lost depths of this modern technique buff.ly/kI81Uyf

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 12/06/2025

A heartfelt animation portrays the evolving relationship between a daughter and her father, who lives with bipolar disorder buff.ly/St1zape

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 12/06/2025

‘Psychoanalysts listen for things ordinarily hidden from awareness that emerge in the margins of our everyday lives ... The idea is that, by taking the “unconscious” seriously, we might discover parts of ourselves seeking expression.’ buff.ly/MF4OCrT

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 12/06/2025

The most fascinating breakthroughs in understanding ourselves often begin with a single powerful idea. Our new Ideas section brings together provocative, research-backed perspectives from leading thinkers exploring the depths of human nature buff.ly/piICZ2M

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 10/06/2025

‘Throughout his work, Monet demonstrates the power of atmospheres and how they can be crafted. I think there is a lot to learn from him about how we experience the world, because our lives are a constant journey through ever-changing atmospheres’ buff.ly/DmRVKSi

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 09/06/2025

The practice of pilgrimage is grounded in a deeper truth: that, on every journey, we can find lessons to guide us on the far longer path of a lifetime. This Guide shows you how you can plan your pilgrimage buff.ly/Fk3mx2e

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 07/06/2025

Do birds of a feather flock together? Or do opposites attract? Folk wisdom abounds on the role of differences and similarities in relationships, and anyone can probably generate examples from their life to reinforce either of those aphorisms. But what does science have to say? buff.ly/w0923Ee

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 06/06/2025

In this lyrical meditation on freedom, Big D contemplates the mysterious, free world outside after four decades in prison. Short documentary Meet Me Halfway directed by Laura Tejero Núñez buff.ly/XKbpzYp

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