Books & arts
5 September 2024
Gideon Haigh explores a “submerged continent”
Books & arts
28 August 2024
A compelling exploration of mental distress moves beyond psychiatric categories
Books & arts
5 June 2024
What can the psychology of this powerful emotion reveal about political life?
Books & arts
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & arts
27 February 2024
A returned soldier’s belief in American virtue and progress is shaken
Books & arts
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & arts
29 November 2023
A defence of Joe Biden’s record highlights a deeper problem
Books & arts
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & arts
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & arts
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & arts
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & arts
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
Books & arts
6 February 2023
How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens?
Books & arts
10 November 2022
The stories we tell ourselves about our mental distress can have unexpected effects
Books & arts
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
Books & arts
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
Books & arts
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
From the archive
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
Books & arts
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
Books & arts
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Books & arts
30 April 2020
Books | Should we embrace boredom?
Books & arts
23 October 2019
Books | There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
Books & arts
25 September 2019
Books | A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
Books & arts
7 June 2019
Books | Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & arts
14 March 2019
Books | What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & arts
21 October 2018
Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
From the archive
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Books & arts
3 July 2017
Books | When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
Books & arts
27 February 2017
Books | Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future