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What comes to your mind when you hear the acronym TLC? For some (especially healthcare professionals), the first thought is "Tender...

Since the emergence of social media, debates have been consistently sparked about the line drawn between moderate use and a concerning...

While taking part in online meetings, I started to notice that, for most of the time, I look at myself onscreen. Surely not out of...

Fairy tales provide a framework for how to deal with the challenges and conflicts of growing up...

The total population of the world crossed 8 billion a couple of months ago. Although a clear milestone has been passed, there remain...

Around 10% of the UK population is estimated to be affected by claustrophobia at some point during their lifetime, according to the NHS.

Exploring mental health through art In this article, I share some of my learnings from taking part in The Big Anxiety festival in...

Hospital setting. A child is born and cries at the top of his lungs. The hospital personnel carefully takes the newborn from the mother...

‘Ted Lasso’ is an award-winning show that tells the story of an American-football coach hired to manage AFC Richmond, a British football...

How first experiences impact the infant development Two days after my daughter was born, in Milan, Italy, I was in the hospital nursery...

Most of us think that a cat purrs when it is happy, however, there is much more behind it, from communication to healing properties. As...

An interview with genetic epidemiologist Dr. Ashley-Koch about which genes are correlated with suicidal behaviours and why learning about...

Phew. I’m not alone, it seems, in my enthusiasm for poetry’s healing power. No less an organisation than UNESCO (the United Nations...

If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, your mind buzzing with thoughts — among them why you are not asleep — you are not...

Photo by MLucan on Wikipedia, CC SA-BY 3.0) I am an Italian writer and contributor to Inspire the Mind , and I was born in a country known for the wrong type of political avant-garde. We had the first fascist party in Europe and managed to switch sides in both world wars. The social reform movements that started in the 60s descended into violence in the 70s, taking the country on the brink of civil war. Twenty years later, Berlusconi invented the modern populist political sty

An interview with our new columnist, a psychologist and a mother, Dr Alessandra Biaggi Ahead of the launch of the new column “The...

Running a small independent business is already a challenge with small margins and the ever-increasing inflation. Try doing that under...

There are two types of creatives in this world; those who are hounded day and night by ideas forcing their way into the mind with jagged...

Chat GPT is the AI chat bot that is taking over the internet. At first glance it seems amazing and feels almost straight out of a Sci-Fi...

A prospective interdisciplinary curriculum integrating arts, health, and humanities at King’s College London A group of academics at...

As a stress researcher from Turkey, I was finalizing a manuscript on the long-term impact of trauma when my world turned upside down with...

As a person from Ukraine, living in Berlin, I never understood when people here complained about lousy winter weather. The temperatures...

When you hear ‘eating disorder’, there’s probably a particular image that comes to mind – a white, teenage girl, emaciated, anorexic....

On the morning of February 24th, 2022, I was woken up at 5 am by a phone call from my mother, who simply said: “A full-scale invasion has...