Articles about Art

Depression is an unwelcome diagnosis but there are many ways to deal with it.

Is it good and right, in the ethical sense, to survive and reproduce and is it bad and wrong not to do so?

The human brain shares many similarities to those of other animals. But what makes it different? Professor Mark Solms considers this question and outlines how a bigger pr...

Few people recognise it but emotion is a sensory modality, like vision, hearing or smell. Professor Mark Solms notes that it differs from other sensory modalities because...

The mind is so central to our existence that we take it for granted. Professor Mark Solms notes that since we are our minds it might be worth considering its purpose....

Professor Mark Solms questions the ways in which psychiatry views mental disorders.

Self-Esteem can be one of the best gifts one can give their child as it allows the child a sense of worth and a drive to reach their goals.

Psychoanalysts are seeing a sharp rise in extramarital affairs among couples. Why do we really have affairs outside marriage, and is social media making them more prevale...

A masterful illustration of the multilayered nature of horrific traumatic experience. Contains disguised session material.

Against the backdrop of South Africa's appalling baby rape statistics; we are reminded that functional adults only develop from properly loved babies.

Society prefers to deny childhood sexuality and punish, instead of guide, sexually active adolescents. Does this protect our young or leave them more vulnerable?

For many, the lives not lived become a source of anguish and bitterness. Yet it is also true that in freeing ourselves from certain anxieties and discovering unknown aspe...