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A frolic of its own
Daniel Reeders
22 February 2023
In a remarkable turnaround, the TGA has eased restrictions on the therapeutic use of psilocybin and MDMA. But will the benefits be fairly spread?
Books & Arts
On not burning out
Frances Flanagan
16 February 2023
Is the workplace malaise bigger than two organisational psychologists believe?
Books & Arts
Appointment with death
Nick Haslam
6 February 2023
How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens?
Books & Arts
Captains unpicked
Judith Brett
3 February 2023
A biographer explores the impact of biographies of living politicians
Books & Arts
Threshold moments
Nick Haslam
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
Books & Arts
Even amoebas
Nick Haslam
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
Books & Arts
Stranger danger
Nick Haslam
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
Books & Arts
The art of disagreeing
Jock Given
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
Essays & Reportage
Friends with benefits
Alecia Simmonds
2 August 2021
When and why did friendship slide down our hierarchy of relationships?
From the archive
New tricks
Nick Haslam
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
Books & Arts
On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
Nick Haslam
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
Essays & Reportage
Love and fear
Kate Cole-Adams
10 May 2021
With the pandemic under control, Australian researchers have resumed their quest for a psychedelic approach to mental health
Books & Arts
The self-esteem racket, and other quick fixes
Nick Haslam
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
Essays & Reportage
With royalty at Riven Rock
Desley Deacon
18 August 2020
Harry and Meghan’s new home comes with a history of American aristocrats, primate research and the quest for the contraceptive pill
Books & Arts
Decent creatures
Sara Dowse
27 May 2020
Books
| If we were smarter, would we realise we’re better than we think?
Books & Arts
Sick of all my kicks
Nick Haslam
30 April 2020
Books
| Should we embrace boredom?
Books & Arts
Ages of anxiety
Nick Haslam
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
The second mountaineer
Nick Haslam
7 June 2019
Books
| Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
Books & Arts
Fighting for face
Nick Haslam
14 March 2019
Books
| What makes political leaders take their country to war?
Books & Arts
University challenge
Nick Haslam
21 October 2018
Books
| Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
Books & Arts
Not my type
Nick Haslam
8 October 2018
Books
| What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
Essays & Reportage
Love thine enemy
Jill Stark
16 August 2018
What happens when you meet the person you’ve done battle with online?
Books & Arts
Going under
Nick Haslam
3 July 2017
Books
| When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
Books & Arts
No time like the present
Nick Haslam
27 February 2017
Books
| Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future
Books & Arts
Crisis talk
Sara Dowse
9 January 2015
Books
| We need to change, yet we resist.
Sara Dowse
reviews Vincent Deary’s compelling account of the psychological how and why
Books & Arts
Edging through the fog
Graeme Dobell
13 November 2014
A diplomat and a psychologist have produced a remarkable guide to dealing with intransigent conflicts, writes
Graeme Dobell
Books & Arts
Perfect storms
Tom Bamforth
18 February 2013
A new book explores why wars can continue well beyond the point where they seem to have served any purpose, writes
Tom Bamforth
Books & Arts
Perchance to dream
Sally Ferguson
1 December 2012
There’s still a lot we don’t know about sleep, writes
Sally Ferguson
Books & Arts
Memories for the future
Richard Johnstone
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks
Richard Johnstone
Books & Arts
Quiet, please
Jock Given
10 April 2012
Are we so impressed by the power of collaboration that we’ve come to overvalue working in groups, asks
Jock Given
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