Culture

Politics

Healing history

A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.

Culture

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.

Politics

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.

Workplace mental health

Monster

A World Cup winning coach tells me why sport's most sacred trait - mental toughness - is also its most dangerous.

Technology

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?

Culture

On my sudden love of horror

What in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost is happening to me?

Radical Hope

Exorcism

Seventy years ago, my grandaunt was 'possessed' by an evil spirit. The haunting continues all around us.

Updates on Sanity

What Sanity readers are dreaming of

Six readers weigh in on the complex present and ideal future of mental health. Keyword: acceptance.

Culture

It's time to drop suicide from cricket's vocabulary

Suicide cannot be a metaphor to describe (sporting) blunders. The game I love needs to take the lead.

Culture

"It's all in your head": Long Covid raises nightmarish questions about medical gaslighting of women

Long Covid has sparked a culture war between survivors and medical experts over what constitutes 'trustworthy' scientific evidence. This is the story of how it could be disproportionately affecting women, seen through the eyes of a two-time Covid survivor.

Culture

🎂 Happy anniversary, bizarre Covid dreams

Covid changed the way we dream. What lies ahead?

Culture

Maa's meat shelf

How we eat makes us who we are as much as what we eat.