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Amelia Kush

Received her Masters in Philosophy of Science from The University of Toronto. Her main areas of interest are cognitive science and the philosophy/ethics of technology.

Received her Masters in Philosophy of Science from The University of Toronto. Her main areas of interest are cognitive science and the philosophy/ethics of technology.

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Beyond the mental health paradigm

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Is your worldview making you depressed?

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Denise Cullington

Psychoanalysis vs CBT: uncovering the unconscious

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Stephanie Jones

Why courage is critical to morality

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The feedback loop from hell

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Forgetting is more important than remembering

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The truth about the Myers–Briggs personality test

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Reality and mental disorder

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When memory fails, imagination fails with it

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Madness and Genius

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Riccardo Manzotti

There is no problem of consciousness

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Mental health is contagious

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Scott Barry Kaufman

Creativity is not a right brain phenomenon

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Julie M. Albright

Phone addiction is worse than smoking or cocaine

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The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro

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The Bipolar Construct

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Mental Health: Visions of the Future

The End of Psychology?

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Katerina Apostolides

Philosophy, Therapy and the Search for Meaning

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The hidden logic behind emotions

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The difficulty of defining death

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The neurodivergence paradox

Alexandre Baril

More openness around suicide could help prevent it

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Finlay Darlington-Bell

Overcoming illness with your life story

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New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem

Emmy van Deurzen

The existential cure for the mental health crisis

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Omari Edwards,Nadine Dijkstra

The reality gap

Gabriele Ferretti

The man who mistook reality for a fantasy

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Michael Gazzaniga,Bridget Queenan

Is your brain really necessary for consciousness?

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm the brain is not a machine

Neuroscience needs a new paradigm: The brain is not a machine