The world, we might say, is made up entirely of strangeness, but it is covered up by a very thin layer of normality. The fact that we don’t generally go...
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If you were asked to explain - in as few words as possible, and with the minimum ‘beating around the bush’ - what the most basic and essential observable principle...
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The positive psychologist is like a rooster who sits on top of a dunghill, full of himself, crowing his little heart out. He has had to climb up an awful...
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We usually believe that we have the particular pattern of thinking and acting that we do have because this pattern is ‘the right one to have’. We think that we...
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INTRODUCTION Entropy is not an idea that finds much, if any, acceptance within the field of psychology, although most of us would agree that it has a certain intuitive appeal. Of...
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If 'quantitative forgetting' is the regular type of forgetting where we forget this and forget that, where we forget some of the details, then qualitative forgetting is where we forget not...
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Kipple is what we love and loathe at the same time; it entices us and it utterly disgusts us; it draws us in, and then it sickens us for having...
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The power of Babylon is the power to exclude us from an illusory kind of happiness, whilst creating both the impression that this happiness is very real, and that it...
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We live in a world that takes a ‘mechanical’ view of mental health more and more for granted. Everything is about technical manipulation: just as I would take a car...
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INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia, one might say, is very much a problem of interpretation. It is a problem of interpretation for the person concerned, although they may be unlikely to see it in...
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