Narrative psychology came into being for a few reasons. One is that, at our essence, we are the storytelling species. We think in story form, speak in story form, and bring meaning to our lives ...

A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages. First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious ...

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Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio believes that the link between brain and body is the key to understanding consciousness. In his latest book, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious, he explains why.

After writing a book about how using psychedelics in a therapeutic setting can change your consciousness, that's the question journalist Michael Pollan found himself struggling to answer. "There's ...

Here is a 13-point synopsis of a book I published in the U.S. last week: The Hidden Spring. 1. The great 19th-century physiologist Johannes Müller believed that animate organisms "contain some ...

The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...