Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’, psychoanalytically: Myth, Simulacrum and Self-Exposure

From Scenic Understanding to Control Vector: Why the ‘Large Behaviour Model’ Threatens Psychotherapy

Homoeroticism in Religion: Celibacy, Mysticism and the Priest’s Body

Echoism and the Echoist: Understanding Narcissism and Toxic Relationships

Evil AI? Why AI companies are warning against their own models

The Uncanny: Why AI Faces Make Us Shudder

The Superego: the inner authority that can never be satisfied

Fight Club, psychoanalytically: the split self and male powerlessness

The Phallus as a Signifier in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject and Gender: Why a Fundamental Psychoanalytic Concept Is Constantly Misunderstood

Narcissus and Narcissism: NPS, from a psychiatric and psychoanalytical perspective: Why nobody chooses grandiosity

‘That is Just the Way I Am’: Why an Entire Culture Loves the MBTI, Even Though Science Rejects It

What is Hedonism? Definition, Consumption and the Neoliberal Obligation to Enjoyment

Cheated and everything better after the affair? What the new study reveals about the psychology of flirting, infidelity and affairs

Quiet Cracking and Job Hugging: Silent Dissatisfaction at Work

Open-label placebos and the power of expectation: Why the honest sugar pill works

Heat and mental health: why heat puts a strain on the mind

Desire Discrepancy: the most common relationship problem for which there is hardly any therapy available

Interrupted Enjoyment: Why adverts in paid streaming services appeal to us so much

Mosting: Love Bombing, Mosting, Ghosting: What’s Behind It

Bed Rotting: Self-care or depression in disguise?

Birds and the Mind: How birdsong boosts well-being

Stopping antidepressants: What the data really says about withdrawal symptoms

Reality TV, Humiliation and Imitations: A Comparison of Rosin’s Restaurants, Farmer Wants a Wife, GNTM and Gordon Ramsay

Neurodiversity Lite: How Neurodiversity Became the Dominant Discourse

Mankeeping: When your partner becomes your only confidante

An emotionally absent father? Attachment, relationship patterns and the danger of oversimplifications in popular psychology

‘Crashing out’: What the viral term reveals about emotional regulation

Rousseau’s Émile: Freedom as a Technique of Domination

Maxxing fatigue: Maxxing with no end in sight, or the end of self-optimisation?

Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, Epstein and the politics of repression

Glamour as a Symptom: Kitsch, Class and the Spectacle

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Psychedelics by decree: Trump speeds up FDA approval

Nonnamaxxing: The trend on TikTok and Instagram for a healthy Italian-style lifestyle – Grandma as an escape fantasy

AI deskilling and cognitive debt: AI use undermines thinking ability after 10 minutes

Gen Z and dating apps: Dating recession and solo-maxxing instead of expensive dates

ADHD: Brain scans reveal three different types

Looksmaxxing and Bone Smashing: discourse creates the trend

Toxic terms in everyday life: therapy-speak & pop psychology relationships

Suicide by Proxy: Indirect Suicide and Infanticide

Body Capitalism: How Body Positivity Became a Needle

Hans Asperger and National Socialism | Spiegelgrund

Enhanced Games, Dark Enlightenment and Tech-Eugenics

The Polyvagal Theory under fire: According to Paul Grossman, it is, on the whole, probably incorrect and has been disproved

Ozempic and Personality: Weight-loss injections and the mind

Emotional incest and enmeshment: When parents turn children into partners

Hikikomori in Germany too: Ways out of social isolation

Bone Smashing: A dangerous self-optimisation trend on Instagram

AI Sycophancy: Why AI chatbots pander to users

AI: Mass hysteria over genetic AI or social progress?