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Protecting yourself from the feelings that drive you may give you a sense of control – but it comes at a cost. Working through them allows you to lower your defences

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world, honoring groundbreaking achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts for peace. Over the years, it has been awarded to some of the greatest minds and most influential figures in history—but not everyone who is deserving has…

For a show so solidly based on incest, when will be stop being surprised?

A Jewish boy’s life splits in two and follows two different paths in this novel of trauma and enduring love in Nazi Europe

A brisk and engaging biography of Baruch Spinoza, the man who inspired many secular Jewish thinkers, is least convincing when it offers him as an example of ‘cancel culture’

Camille Pissaro’s stolen work, the London Art Fair and explosions of fauvist colour – all in your weekly dispatch

Talk about a dream, kill a conversation. But not in the case of graphic novelist Roz Chast. Even her subconscious emanations present deliciously skewed takes on life's absurdities and fraught moments.

Gabor Maté is the physician and trauma expert whose interview with Prince Harry made him a star. He talks therapy, pain, our toxic culture and his latest seminal book, The Myth of Normal, with Evgeny Lebedev

Freud described dreams as windows into our repressed desires. Today, researchers are using them to boost athletic performance and help veterans with PTSD, unlocking huge benefits for us all