Psyche Magazine
A magazine to help you understand yourself and live well.
- In this delightful animation, the US photographer and filmmaker Josephine Sittenfeld digs into a curiosity many of us can likely relate to: who is her therapist Linda outside of her treatment room? Here are the small hints at Linda’s private life that she’s collected
- To study the nature of transcendent spiritual experiences, the psychology researcher Mohammadamin Saraei radically re-designed his research to move away from the lab and out into the world. His findings widen our lens on spirituality from the brain to a whole community
- The personal essay can sometimes get a bad rap – too confessional, too self-involved. But Psyche’s Life Stories editor Alizeh Kohari is here to change your mind: personal essays capture something essential about our shared humanity, finding the universal in the personal psyche.co/life-stories
- Having cruised through her teenage years with remarkably clear skin, the writer Krystal Sital viewed makeup as frivolous and vain. So it came as a surprise to everyone – and most of all herself – when she found herself turning to the beauty aisle for comfort after her lupus diagnosis
- Snorkelling at the most unassuming of beaches can teach us about slowing down and noticing the small spectacles unfolding everywhere
- This Guide by psychologist Julie K Norem identifies some of the most common planning pitfalls, and suggests that the strategy of ‘defensive pessimism’ can help you plan more realistically and effectively
- In this tenderly shot portrait of the acclaimed Latin American ballet dancer Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, the Berlin-based film maker Veronika Pokoptceva captures what goes into the seemingly effortless perfection of a ballet performance
- One evening, Kathleen Donohoe looked into her grandfather’s blue eyes, the two of them joined by her dog Mindy in her bedroom. This seemingly unremarkable scene is so indelibly etched into her memory because of one detail: her grandfather had been dead for over ten
- We’re often told that speaking up is the path to healing. In this Idea, a philosopher of psychiatry asks us to pause and reconsider that assumption. He explores when talking helps, when it harms, and why making space for quiet can be an act of care in itself
