Life is filled with a lot of big questions: What’s the point? What’s the meaning? Why am I here? Existential theory tries to answer a lot of those questions to help people find meaning and ...

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Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people find a sense of meaning in their lives. It is less rigidly structured than other types of therapy and focuses on exploring a ...

At several points in human history, there have been great transitions that accelerated our progress and shaped everything that would follow. Ten thousand years ago, the first Agricultural Revolution ...

Is AI on the verge of wiping out humanity? Or does the existential threat come from something — or someone — else? Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks following OpenAI’s launch of ...

In a recently released book collecting new and old entries from her advice column, “Ask Polly,” Heather Havrilesky fields a seemingly impossible query. It arrives like a parody of privileged ...

JRPGs often explore existential themes like identity and fate, challenging players with cosmic horrors and gods. Titles like Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy 7, and Nier: Automata delve into deep ...

If you find that thoughts of reality or life after death distract you from everyday life on a regular basis, this could be a symptom of existential obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Share on ...

Sometimes in life, we feel stuck, we don't know where to go, or we just feel confused. Therapy is a great place to start when tackling big - or little - life questions! A good working relationship ...

Fancy words go in and out of fashion, positing an existential temptation to overuse. The late 1990s gave us “literally.” People literally used “literally” to emphasize almost any point — even one that ...