Through vivid, surreal illustrations, a filmmaker captures her fraught relationship with her body after a breakup ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

We all constantly filter a flood of details coming in. This process helps explain what gives some brains a creative edge ...

Feeling worn down, checked out, or bitter about work? The answer is not to ‘just work harder’. Try these steps instead Photo by kunertus/Getty ‘I’m exhausted.’ As a clinical psychologist who ...

is professor of music at Indiana University, US. Her books include The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (2013) and Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval ...

Temptation can be sneaky – a rationalising voice that subtly undermines your resolve. But there are ways to outsmart it ...

While in her early 70s, the English artist Mary Delany (1700-88) noticed a striking resemblance between a red piece of paper sitting on her bedside table and the colour of a geranium. She then cut the ...

Is social media causing you problems? Here are some personal and practical ways to reap its benefits with fewer drawbacks ...

Rare moments of wonder at the mere existence of things – rather than the dramatic or new – involve perceiving with the soul ...