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Psychiatrist Says People Don’t Need Information but Transformation
The renowned child psychiatrist Robert Coles told this story in a graduate class at Harvard University many years ago: “A highly regarded psychiatrist ...
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Expert on Happiness Takes His Own Life
More than 40 years ago, a scholar and researcher in the psychology of happiness named Philip Brickman helped publish one of the first scientific studies ...
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Physicists Ask ‘What’s the Point?’ If Mankind Becomes Extinct
In a recent Scientific American article, writer John Horgan challenges the far-fetched ideas of atheistic physicists and scientists. Their existential ...
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Why It’s So Lonely at the Top
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” This is the most famous line in William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, Part 2, spoken by the ...
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Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health
So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time. The economy is cratering. Still, you ...
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Solzhenitsyn Finds Strength to Go On
There's a great story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer who spent years in a Siberian prison. At one point he had become completely ...
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Woman Pronounced Dead Later Found Alive in Funeral Home
A 20-year-old woman with cerebral palsy was pronounced dead by paramedics, and placed in a body bag. Three hours later, she was found alive. The ordeal ...
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The New 'I Wish I'd Never Been Born' Movement
In recent years a new “I wish I'd never been born” movement has been emerging in different parts of the world. For example, a 27-year-old ...
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Little Nagging Fear
The morning after winning Emmys for being the producer and star of VEEP, Julia Louis-Dreyfus said that her doctor called to tell her she had breast cancer. ...
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Writer Searches for Reassurance During Pandemic
Stressed out by the overwhelming events caused by the coronavirus in her city, New York City resident Gabrielle Bellot has a thirst for reassurance that ...
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