Articles, Films and practical Guides on the nature of reality, part of Psyche’s coverage of creativity and the arts.

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future ...

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD ...

Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom ...

The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too ...

True contact between beings,’ he wrote, ‘is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that ...

Motivation is notoriously fickle. Here’s why having more fun in the moment helps you stick with your goals for the long haul ...

As the father of twins, I could hardly feel more frazzled. But my brain age might paint a different, more youthful, picture ...