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Psyche audio helps you to better understand yourself and others through expert guides, provocative ideas and personal life stories. We address psychological questions and puzzles from a range of perspectives including philosophy, history, anthropology and more. You will discover practical knowledge and insights to help you navigate everyday challenges, overcome difficulties and find meaning, wonder and spirituality. Psyche is a nonprofit digital magazine. With a dedication to pluralism and openness, Psyche is a companion on your journey to better knowing your self and living well. Free to read and now free to listen. Discover articles and videos at psyche.co. Psyche articles are only ever written and edited by human experts. We use AI for audio narration only.

Episode Date
Letting friendships die
May 19, 2026
How to come back to your senses
May 18, 2026
The unravelling
May 17, 2026
How to be the archivist of your own family
May 16, 2026
Talk to strangers
May 15, 2026
Music speaks louder than words through what it leaves unsaid
May 14, 2026
How to navigate your menopause
May 13, 2026
True resilience is not about bouncing back
May 12, 2026
The ghost in the image was me
May 11, 2026
Reality shifting opens portals to the weirdness of our world
May 10, 2026
A psalm for lost spaces
May 09, 2026
Good apologies don’t close the book: they open a new chapter
May 08, 2026
Not fight, flight or freeze, but fawn
May 07, 2026
After the cod
May 06, 2026
How to bring up pet peeves in your relationship
May 05, 2026
The uncanny feeling that a dead person is still close by
May 04, 2026
How to stop your life playing on repeat
May 03, 2026
The kids forgotten by calls to ban phones
May 02, 2026
Have online worlds become the last free places for children?
May 01, 2026
How to practise a musical instrument
Apr 30, 2026
A prescription for randomness
Apr 29, 2026
Romila Thapar: doyenne and dissenter
Apr 28, 2026
Why it’s so hard to agree on what counts as true
Apr 27, 2026
The empathy lie
Apr 26, 2026
What rituals from the past teach us about panic and anxiety
Apr 25, 2026
When we experience FOMO, what are we really afraid of?
Apr 24, 2026
Reclaiming the skull
Apr 23, 2026
How to thrive as an adoptee
Apr 22, 2026
Turn off your sleep tracker
Apr 21, 2026
We’ll soon find out what is truly special about human writing
Apr 20, 2026
Fight like a mother
Apr 19, 2026
Vintage clothes: a balm for my perfectionism
Apr 18, 2026
What the therapy buzzword ‘cycle-breaking’ really involves
Apr 17, 2026
Mostarska Škola
Apr 16, 2026
Try seeing your personality as dimensional
Apr 15, 2026
The cure for body dissatisfaction that doesn’t involve the body
Apr 14, 2026
How to nurture confidence in a child with dyslexia
Apr 13, 2026
The Ozempic era should change how we think about self-control
Apr 12, 2026
How to deal with doubts about your therapist
Apr 11, 2026
Not all procrastination is created equal
Apr 10, 2026
Circular 108
Apr 10, 2026
If we avoid sadness in life, why do we seek it in art?
Apr 09, 2026
How to get to know your neighbourhood
Apr 08, 2026
Intimacy is risky, but it’s the only way to true acceptance
Apr 06, 2026
My cousin Anna
Apr 05, 2026
Stronger
Apr 04, 2026
We should invent new names for feelings
Apr 03, 2026
I tested whether cannabis really can boost the runner’s high
Apr 03, 2026
How to give a compliment
Apr 02, 2026
Why chatbot therapists can’t offer what we need
Mar 31, 2026
She found the Mother Tree
Mar 30, 2026
Defensible space
Mar 29, 2026
How to use AI chatbots to make you smarter, not dumber
Mar 28, 2026
The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held
Mar 27, 2026
How to recognise a phobia (and get help)
Mar 26, 2026
What could have been?
Mar 25, 2026
You can’t revoke my autism
Mar 24, 2026
Are morally good people any happier or sadder than others?
Mar 23, 2026
A lesson from the Son of Man’s manhood
Mar 22, 2026
Do you weave historical events into your own life story?
Mar 21, 2026
Stargazing really is good for the soul
Mar 20, 2026
When we fear the past we’re actually still looking ahead
Mar 19, 2026
How to write yourself every day
Mar 18, 2026
You can use music to escape your negative thought loops
Mar 17, 2026
Want to colour?
Mar 16, 2026
Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation
Mar 15, 2026
Let the mystery be
Mar 14, 2026
A common misunderstanding about genetics
Mar 12, 2026
How to reconnect with your inner child
Mar 12, 2026
On loving a clone, or why love can’t be rationally justified
Mar 11, 2026
The chocolate edible
Mar 10, 2026
Why AI’s hallucinations are like the illusions of narcissism
Mar 08, 2026
Experiments in resistance
Mar 07, 2026
IQ scores are falling but, no, we’re not growing more stupid
Mar 05, 2026
How to date again after an abusive relationship
Mar 04, 2026
Body of water
Mar 03, 2026
I’m a philosopher trying to make sense of my dad’s delusions
Mar 02, 2026
How will the future judge us?
Mar 02, 2026
How to tolerate annoying things
Mar 01, 2026
What I found in one of the tiniest languages
Feb 28, 2026
There are times when we shouldn’t be ashamed of public shaming
Feb 27, 2026
‘Each of us has a song’
Feb 26, 2026
What helps you feel better might depend on where you grew up
Feb 25, 2026
Finding solace in Murderbot
Feb 24, 2026
How to reclaim your attention
Feb 23, 2026
A memory hack to help you face your fears
Feb 22, 2026
True courage isn’t being fearless, it’s fearing well
Feb 21, 2026
Why we’re falling out of love with our AI confidants
Feb 20, 2026
Mosque and state
Feb 19, 2026
How to know if your meditation is working
Feb 18, 2026
How I became more facially expressive
Feb 18, 2026
Science, serendipity and a new era for schizophrenia treatment
Feb 17, 2026
Living off a dying sea
Feb 16, 2026
Arachnophobia
Feb 15, 2026
How to overcome a fear of fear
Feb 14, 2026
How to network when you’re socially anxious
Feb 13, 2026
Why the search for proof can’t be separated from faith
Feb 12, 2026
Existential crisis? Try reading Wordsworth
Feb 12, 2026
The hard art of comfort
Feb 11, 2026
Why we should embrace ‘nepantla’ – the in-betweenness of life
Feb 10, 2026
The cage
Feb 09, 2026
Dog day blues
Feb 08, 2026
The lost art of making a petroglyph
Feb 07, 2026
Spirituality can’t be reduced to what’s happening in the brain
Feb 06, 2026
‘We are all always coming and going’
Feb 05, 2026
Painting myself back to life
Feb 05, 2026
Want things to go well? Plan like a defensive pessimist
Feb 04, 2026
Snorkelling taught me stillness
Feb 04, 2026
A haunting in Brooklyn
Feb 03, 2026
For some with mental illness, it’s not always good to talk
Feb 02, 2026
At what point does the Santa myth become a harmful deception?
Feb 01, 2026
How to start making music
Jan 31, 2026
Who’s responsible for your attachment style?
Jan 30, 2026
In the bustle of the city, we need more pockets of serenity
Jan 29, 2026
How cultural outsiders cope with the pain of feeling different
Jan 27, 2026
How to rest well
Jan 25, 2026
What happens to our cognition in the darkest depths of winter?
Jan 24, 2026
Thicker than blood
Jan 23, 2026
No, willpower isn’t a muscle – here’s a better way to think of it
Jan 22, 2026
The mudlark
Jan 21, 2026
Try everything twice
Jan 21, 2026
How to build team spirit
Jan 20, 2026
The family cancer
Jan 16, 2026
How to cope with disruptive change
Jan 15, 2026
My life as an alien
Jan 14, 2026
So what if Nike’s neuro shoes are a placebo?
Jan 14, 2026
Is choosing food and medicine based on naturalness a good idea?
Jan 13, 2026
Why being ghosted is inevitable and being a ghoster is too
Jan 12, 2026
Muscle memory
Jan 09, 2026
Heidegger knew that we are always outside, weathering the storms
Jan 08, 2026
Aftershock
Jan 07, 2026
Forever compelled
Jan 07, 2026
How to think differently about procrastination
Jan 06, 2026
What your mind’s blank moments reveal about consciousness
Jan 05, 2026
Curious about a digital ‘detox’? Here’s what you should know
Dec 24, 2025
Learning to inhale
Dec 24, 2025
How to start learning dance
Dec 23, 2025
It’s a gift to share reality with someone
Dec 23, 2025
My chatbot therapist
Dec 22, 2025
The Teds
Dec 19, 2025
A painting that captures perfectionism
Dec 18, 2025
How to talk to someone who’s grieving
Dec 18, 2025
Your purpose isn’t something to find, it’s something you form
Dec 17, 2025
Trafficked
Dec 16, 2025
We’re losing trust in civic institutions – can we get it back?
Dec 15, 2025
Tolerance isn’t just nice, it’s a civic virtue we all can build
Dec 12, 2025
Why kama muta is an emotion worth seeking
Dec 12, 2025
The long goodbye
Dec 11, 2025
How to talk to yourself
Dec 10, 2025
Loafing around at Rikers
Dec 10, 2025