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Born club-footed and orphaned, Philip Carey tries accountancy, painting and medicine, and is nearly destroyed by an obsessive love. Maugham's most autobiographical novel about breaking free.
18 min read
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He calls himself base and vile, yet buys new gloves before taking revenge on an officer. Dostoevsky's underground man speaks for the unlit room in all of us.
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Over 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with ADHD — and about 1.1 million children may be misdiagnosed. Psychiatrist Dale Archer argues many 'symptoms' are strengths in disguise.
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A literature professor joins an MMA gym to ask why humans love violence — and finds the answer in dueling codes, chimpanzee stares and the Colosseum: we codify violence rather than abolish it.
9 min read
Love & Gender
Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy shows why couples fight over trivia: beneath lies the fear of losing each other. Naming the pursue–withdraw cycle and repairing attachment beats winning.
10 min read
Love & Gender
Stephanie Coontz shows that marrying for love is only a few centuries old: marriage began as a peace treaty, a family business and a political alliance before becoming a matter of the heart.
11 min read
Love & Gender
Marshall B. Rosenberg's lifelong method: spot the four faces of violent communication, then speak in observation, feeling, need and request — to express yourself, hear others, even befriend yourself.
8 min read
Love & Gender
Israeli sociologist Orna Donath interviewed 23 women who regret becoming mothers. The book is not an argument against having children — it gives a silenced experience a public language.
9 min read
Love & Gender
Gottman followed 650 couples for fourteen years, named the Four Horsemen — criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling — and distilled seven principles that keep a marriage alive.
13 min read
Love & Gender
Judith and Bob Wright draw on thirty years of marriage and counseling: conflict is not poison but a doorway to each other's desires — 15 fight types, 6 skills that turn fighting into understanding.
8 min read
Love & Gender
Annabel Crabb does the arithmetic: women hold 2–3% of CEO posts, a housewife works 42 hours a week, and her labour is worth $113,568 a year. 'Balance' usually means someone else picks up the slack.
9 min read