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Friday essay: long in the shadow of Freud, Carl Jung’s ideas are finding fresh relevance today

Friday essay: long in the shadow of Freud, Carl Jung’s ideas are finding fresh relevance today

An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and emphasis on archetype and...

06.03.2026 10

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Nick Haslam

Our memories are unreliable, limited and suggestible – and it’s a good thing too

Memories are constantly revised in acts of recollection. They are moulded by new information, beliefs and emotions, and other people’s versions of...

02.07.2025 5

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Let Them Theory: TikTok and Oprah love the ‘deeply individualistic’ self-help trend. Can it help you? We asked an expert

The Let Them world is far removed from the interconnected reality of social life, writes Nick Haslam. But books such as this may be useful.

24.04.2025 10

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Australia and New Zealand are plagued by ‘tall poppy syndrome’. But would a cure be worse than the disease?

A tendency to drag down those who set themselves above others, the syndrome supposedly reflects values of equality, humility and the storied ‘fair...

03.04.2025 9

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Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of...

25.03.2025 10

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Nick Haslam