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psychology
Books & Arts
Virtual anxiety
Nick Haslam
18 March 2024
Jonathan Haidt probes the causes of young people’s mental distress with refreshing humility
Books & Arts
“An unfathomable, shapeshifting thing”
Zora Simic
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
Books & Arts
Jagged solitude
Nick Haslam
18 January 2024
A German writer’s candid account of the shifting boundary between solitude and loneliness
Books & Arts
The one who told them who they were
Nick Haslam
19 October 2023
A writer and activist explores the changing seasons of grief
Books & Arts
Personality problems
Sidney Bloch and Nick Haslam
11 September 2023
When does a type become a disorder?
Books & Arts
(Don’t) always look on the bright side of life
Nick Haslam
25 July 2023
How best to deal with dark moods?
Books & Arts
The ambiguity of hope
Nick Haslam
15 June 2023
Do positive expectations and a sense of personal control add up to a unique predictor of wellbeing?
Books & Arts
President Wilson on the couch
Nick Haslam
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
Books & Arts
Social fitness
Nick Haslam
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
National Affairs
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
What impact do biographies of living politicians have on their subjects?
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?
From the archive
Not my type
Nick Haslam
8 October 2018
What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
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