Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Seven days on the small set of moves that make ordinary emotional life easier, for the adult who was never taught how their inner life works.
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The Body and the Mind
Seven days on what the body actually contributes to psychological life — and on three of the most-read writers in the field, who disagree about where the leverage sits.
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A little more understanding.
Understanding why you do something and being able to stop doing it are different achievements, and the gap between them is where this path lives. Three writers give three answers to the same question — if a mind is stuck, where do you push? One says the body is an archive of what happened to you. One says the body is an engine whose state last night decides what your mind can do today. One says nothing much changes except between two people, slowly, over years. All three are bestsellers, all three carry a credibility complication, and the week grades every claim by the evidence actually holding it up. Not a treatment, and not a diagnosis — the path says so plainly on the first day and again on the last.
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Where the path begins · Lesson 01
Knowing Isn't Changing
Why understanding a pattern so rarely stops it, and the three different answers this path's writers give to the question of where else you could push.
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Knowing Isn't Changing
Why understanding a pattern so rarely stops it, and the three different answers this path's writers give to the question of where else you could push.
What the Body Actually Keeps
The observation that made van der Kolk abandon the model he was trained in, what is genuinely measurable about a traumatised nervous system, and the difference between a mark and a recording.
Does It Work, and Is the Story True
The body-based treatments van der Kolk champions, graded honestly by the evidence behind them — and the difference between a therapy that works and a therapy whose explanation is correct.
The Night Before
What sleep is doing for the mind, the one experiment that shows the arrow pointing from sleep to mental health rather than the other way, and why the most effective treatment for insomnia is not a drug.
When a True Thing Gets Oversold
What happened when somebody fact-checked the most influential sleep book ever written, which claims did not survive it, and the general habit that comes out of watching a correct thesis get wrapped in incorrect numbers.
What a Therapist Can Tell You
The one finding in psychotherapy research that has held across three hundred studies, what a clinician's own account can and cannot establish, and why the week's strongest counter-argument arrives from its softest source.
The Loudest Is Not the Strongest
Where the three writers genuinely cannot all be right, an honest ranking of their three levers by the evidence behind each, and why that ranking comes out close to the reverse of how loudly each one is argued.
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Psychology
Meaning Under Pressure
Seven days with three writers who went looking for what suffering is for — and an honest account of how much of what they found actually holds up.
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Psychology
How Your Mind Actually Works
Ten days on what is actually known about human judgment, which of the famous findings survived being checked, and how to tell the two apart yourself.
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