Books on anxiety are proliferating, which is not surprising if we take into account that it is one of the most common psychological disorders. It is estimated that around 5% of the world's population …
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Why do we like the smell of a new book?
Most avid readers, like me, have a common ritual: we buy a book and, as soon as we are alone (so as not to run the risk of appearing strange in the eyes of others), we smell it. We turn its pages and …
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The art of loving: When 1 plus 1 doesn’t make 2
What is love? Perhaps this is one of the questions that at some point we all have asked ourselves but for which we do not have answers. This is precisely the theme that cuts across the world-famous …
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The 3 books to read to understand the pandemic, the confinement and what will come
The improbable has hit us. Suddenly, as usually happens, leaving us with a feeling of disbelief with which we struggle to try to make sense of what is happening to us, to try to fit in this new …
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: The meaning of the nonsense
Without a doubt, "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" has been the most popular book among all the works of Sigmund Freud. But ... where is the key to its popularity? In the style with which it has …
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The mistakes we make reading , according to Thoreau
We know how to read, but each time we process less what we read. We read more, but we reflect less. We have access to more content, but increasingly ephemeral and inconsequential. Why reading if what …
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We live in the burnout society, according to the philosopher Byung-Chul Han
"The burnout society" is one of those books that we must read, absolutely. Written by the South Korean philosopher living in Germany Byung-Chul Han, presents an alternative and interesting vision of …
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