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Marc Wittmann psychology science and technology science psychedelics culture and society culture neuroscience mental health

The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.

Altered States of Consciousness – from German psychologist and chronobiologist Marc Wittmann, absolutely fascinating read on a how the fringes of consciousness — deep meditation, depression, near-death experiences, creative flow, psychedelics — illuminate the centrality of time perception to what we call the “self.”

Meghan Daum philosophy memoir psychology culture and society thought and opinion

Beautiful read on the paradoxes of how we become who we are.

Rollo May thought and opinion psychology

The great existentialist psychologist Rollo May on freedom and the significance of the pause.

Pema Chodron Buddhism philosophy psychology advice thought and opinion culture and society

Wonderful advice on how to move through times of acute despair from one of the great Buddhist teachers of our time.

William Styron depression mental health memoir lit history and literature psychology

Pulitzer-winning writer William Styron, born on this day in 1925, on what depression really feels like.

Donald Winnicott Mother's Day motherhood psychology culture and society

For Mother’s Day, pioneering psychologist Donald Winnicott’s timeless wisdom on the mother’s contribution to society.

Rollo May philosophy psychology culture and society thought and opinion love

The great existential psychologist Rollo May on love and will in times of radical transition – written half a century ago, spectacularly applicable to our present predicament.

science and technology psychology thought and opinion

The longest personality study of all time … suggests that over the course of a lifetime, just as your physical appearance changes and your cells are constantly replaced, your personality is also transformed beyond recognition.

Findings of a major study that began in 1950 with 1,208 teenagers in Scotland and followed them through adulthood. Of course, Borges knew that nearly a century ago.

Pair with what makes you and your childhood self the “same person” despite a lifetime of biological and psychological change.

Donald Winnicott psychology motherhood culture and society psychoanalysis

Pioneering psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, born on this day in 1896, on the mother’s crucial contribution to society.

Erich Fromm psychology thought and opinion

Erich Fromm’s 6 rules of listening – the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist on the art of unselfish understanding.

Erich Fromm philosophy psychology thought and opinion culture and society

The great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm, born on this day in 1900, on the key to a sane society.

Adam Phillips psychology philosophy love Valentine's Day culture and society thought and opinion

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had.

For Valentine’s Day, the paradoxical psychology of why frustration is necessary for satisfaction in love.

creativity and innovation creativity psychology gender

Inside psychology’s most ambitious and influential study of what makes a creative person, conducted in the late 1950s and foundational to our present understanding of creativity.

(A quarter century earlier, Virginia Woolf made the case that the most creative mind is the androgynous mind.)

Oliver Sacks music 9/11 culture and society psychology

Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and music’s paradoxical power to help us heel by making room for our pain.

Walter Lippmann thought and opinion culture and society Amelia Earhart philosophy psychology history and literature lit

Walter Lippmann’s 1937 meditation on what makes a hero and the true measure of the human spirit is one of the most beautiful things ever written.