Independent
mental health
journalism for
independent minds.
Your therapist is a chameleon. How does that make you feel?
Therapy's great promise was constancy. Not any more.
Healing history
A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.
Trauma is a planetary emergency, not a personal problem
A community battered by trauma is like a cracked cup. Whatever resources you pour into will leak out.
Down with empathy
Human beings don't need to understand each other to do the right thing.
How to give birth to yourself
When does illness become identity, and how do you change the script? A short story.
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People of no nation
Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate life unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.
Monster
A World Cup winning coach tells me why sport's most sacred trait - mental toughness - is also its most dangerous.
No, therapy apps won't kill Freud
Freudian psychoanalysis and cognitive behavioural therapy have been at war over the soul of therapy. Can the rise of technology deliver a winner?
On my sudden love of horror
What in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost is happening to me?
Exorcism
Seventy years ago, my grandaunt was 'possessed' by an evil spirit. The haunting continues all around us.
What Sanity readers are dreaming of
Six readers weigh in on the complex present and ideal future of mental health. Keyword: acceptance.
