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Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

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Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development: The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are
Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychological Development: The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are

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Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy and the Type of Person to Be Wary of the Most
Winnicott on the Psychology of Democracy and the Type of Person to Be Wary of the Most

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The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning
The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love
How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Withstanding Absence and Missing Someone You Love

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

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Don’t Waste Your Wildness
Don’t Waste Your Wildness

“What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don’t waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In wildness, truth.”

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How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair
How to Triumph Over the Challenges of the Creative Life: Audubon’s Antidote to Despair

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The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive
The Consolations of Chronodiversity: Geologist Turned Psychologist Ruth Allen on the 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive

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The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem
The Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller Poem

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Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth
Rupture Precedes Revolution: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

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