things like limerence, cognitive distortion
From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Amanda J. Sternweiler
Concepts
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Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge
Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors
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How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better
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Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us
Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.
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You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)
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Bluma Zeigarnik’s framework for designing focus and closure.
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The Hidden Document I Return to When I Come Undone
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Crib sheet for the road
On Tom Lehrer, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and collapsed space.
Notes from an Ontological Misfit
Solomon Asch and the unbearable pull of agreement.
Carl Rogers on the painful gap between our true selves and performed selves
Our brains have hidden systems. Here's how to use them...
The Subtle Patterns That Predict Divorce—According to the Psychologist Who Can Foresee It with 93.6% Accuracy
How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self
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In the space between thinking and feeling
Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy
A primer on what's left unsaid
What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about the exhausting vigilance that keeps love at bay
The cognitive pull of the unsolvable
What you avoid asking might be what you need to know most.
The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.
John Sarno and the History of Psychosomatic Illness
