An animator makes sense of the trauma he experienced when he was sent to boarding school, and how an imaginary friend helped ...

Seizures are often described as both terrifying and enthralling. Mine gave me a wondrous new take on consciousness and agency ...

In a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction ...

Love is not merely irrational – there’s a sense in which it’s also based on reason, which means we can get better at it ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.