Psyche Magazine

Psyche is an online magazine created by Aeon that explores the complexities of human nature through the lenses of psychology, philosophy, and the arts.

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True contact is found in silence

1 week ago | psyche.co | Sam Dresser

In Spanish, I wasn’t the clumsy son of the town amputee. Learning the language catalysed my reinventionby Timothy HamptonIn our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman scepticsby Massimo PigliucciWhen someone insults you or people you care about, this advice can help you figure out whether to speak up and what to sayby Alicia del PradoPsychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages.
Are people less talkative these days?

2 weeks ago | psyche.co | Matt Huston

When someone insults you or people you care about, this advice can help you figure out whether to speak up and what to sayby Alicia del PradoPsychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain itby Chris F Westbury & Daniel KingThe best analogies in poetry and science really crackle, but when do they expand our thinking and when do they constrain it?
After four decades in prison, Big D contemplates the brave new world that awaits him

2 weeks ago | psyche.co | Laura Núñez

https://player.vimeo.com/video/334384841The short documentary Meet Me Halfway captures Darrell ‘Big D’ Wright in a liminal space between incarceration and freedom. After serving 41 years in prison for first-degree murder, Wright finds himself in a hospital bed at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center outside San Francisco, where he’s been transferred for a leg amputation before re-entering a world that has changed in myriad ways while he’s been locked away.
How to plan a pilgrimage

2 weeks ago | psyche.co | Oliver Smith

Whether religious or not, you can undertake a special, meaningful kind of journey that could leave you changed foreverby Oliver Smith, travel writerOn the Camino de Santiago. Photo by Philippe Lissac/Godong/PanosOn the Camino de Santiago. Photo by Philippe Lissac/Godong/PanosOliver Smith is a travel writer who contributes to the Financial Times, The Times and other publications, and previously worked for Lonely Planet magazine.
A way to enjoy more positive mental images

3 weeks ago | psyche.co | Christian Jarrett

To grasp the power of this lauded quality, think of it less as a mountain than as a flexible, even playful way of seeingby Michael UebelA film by Carly Jakins and Jared JakinsFor me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters.
Fieldnotes from my father’s funeral

3 weeks ago | psyche.co | Salman Masood

The first time I witnessed death’s aftermath at work, my world tilted on its axis. It was 2002, and a terrorist attack targeted a Christian hospital in Taxila, a city near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. As I walked through the scene, my head grew heavy and my heart thumped. The smell of blood and explosives seemed to press down on me, making each step feel like wading through water.
Psyche Stories of Change

4 weeks ago | psyche.co | Lindsay Wallace

The first time I tried to breathe underwater, it almost didn’t work. I was beginning my first descent in open water – scuba-diving parlance for sinking, on purpose, into the sea. I was with a guide and another beginning diver, and as we drifted downward, each of my frenzied inhales was accompanied by a burst of bath-warm water. Growing up, I had been worshipful and wary of the ocean’s vastness, the way it went on forever.
Mindie is a talented singer. She also doesn’t have legs. As a teen, it got complicated

1 month ago | psyche.co | Megan Griffiths |Mindie Lind

https://player.vimeo.com/video/1035718633The Seattle-based artist Mindie Lind grew up ‘obsessed with the stage’, and today has a prominent voice in the Pacific Northwest as a musician and writer on disability and beyond. However, as she explores in View From the Floor, it took some time for her to realise that, because she was born without legs, the wider world – and especially media – was often more interested in her as a vessel for ‘inspiration porn’ than her actual talents.
The ancients dreamt the same dreams as us

1 month ago | psyche.co | Sam Dresser

Sleeping Endymion; detail from a group of Roman sculptures depicting Selene and Endymion at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photo by Getty ImagesSleeping Endymion; detail from a group of Roman sculptures depicting Selene and Endymion at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photo by Getty ImagesThere is a special kind of boredom that comes from listening to people talk about their dreams, so I’ll spare you.
The voices that stick in our minds

1 month ago | psyche.co | Matt Huston

The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old woundsby Antonia MalchikScenes from books, movies and games sometimes carry as much weight as events from people’s own lives. We’re finding out whyby Osman Görkem ÇetinIn Spanish, I wasn’t the clumsy son of the town amputee. Learning the language catalysed my reinventionby Timothy HamptonForgetting can be frustrating, even scary. The ancient Greeks certainly thought so.