evskv") a more direct communication with the implied reader.3 fered and am suffering from this: I haven't known at all, up to now, I haven't learned how to get control of my means. I have squeezed ...

Reflecting on your own "hero's journey" narrative boosts your resilience and sense of meaning in life. Locating this ...

Human culture is a bewildering array of complex yet intuitively consistent, mutually beneficial arrangements. Humans are champions of cooperation, from the reproductive division of labour and ...

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Every civilization believes its story is self-evident. It rarely notices when that story begins to fail — not because the ...

The stories we construct about our lives don’t tell our identities — they create them. The science of narratives is profound, my recent narrative research published in the Journal of Community Safety ...

"I do not think that the vocation of writer is superior to any other," writes Melissa Febos in her newest essay collection, "but I do believe it is the most useful life for me, the one in which I can ...

In 2014, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Indian-born Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistani-born Malala Yousafzai in recognition of their struggle against the suppression of children. They ...

Narrative psychotherapy aims to help people understand mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, in the context of the person’s life story. This form of mental ...