Touchy Feely: How Human Senses Compare with those of other Life-Forms
Ashley Ward, Sensational: A new story of our senses | Book Review By Anna Katharina Schaffner Science | Book Review | TLS Did you know:...
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Anna K. Schaffner
I write blogs, journalism, fiction, non-fiction and academic texts. My work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Psychology Today, Positive Psychology, Aeon, Psyche, Die Sueddeutsche, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in other places.
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- Mar 9
- 5 min
Is This It? 4 Key Reasons for Mid-Life Languishing
... and how we can overcome it Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY It is a truth universally acknowledged that happiness is a...
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- Feb 23
- 3 min
Gaining Fluency: What it Means to be Human in a Gendered, Sexist, Classist World
Blutbuch by Kim de l'Horizon | Book Review By Anna Katharina Schaffner Literature | Book Review | TLS Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel,...
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- Jan 13
- 5 min
Why Quiet Quitting is a Dangerous Concept
Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY "Quiet quitting" has generated a flurry of headlines in 2022. Results of a 2022 Gallup survey...
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- Jan 13
- 6 min
World Weary
Mental Fatigue and Physical Exhaustion in History By Anna Katharina Schaffner Social & Cultural Studies | Book Review | TLS When you...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 5 min
Is How You are Working Working for You?
Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Many of my coaching clientscome to me because they believe there is something wrong with how...
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- Nov 19, 2022
- 6 min
Top Ten Books about Self-Improvement
In time for new year resolutions, a cultural historian chooses some of the best guides to making a better life, dating back to some of...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 6 min
Whatever happened to 'Workaholism'?
Why the term has disappeared and why that should concern us Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today Recently I came across a...
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- May 25, 2022
- 7 min
Why Manifesting is Bad for Us
... and what it can tell us about our present cultural moment Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today “Manifesting” is one of the...
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- Apr 28, 2022
- 6 min
The Pursuit of Gender Justice
Two contrasting views of modern masculinity By Anna Katharina Schaffner Social Studies | Book Review | TLS Men have lower life...
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- Apr 12, 2022
- 6 min
Do you feel heavy, exhausted, depleted and weighed down?
Why our Mind-Metaphors Matter Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I have always been fascinated by the metaphors we use to...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 6 min
5 Reasons Why Perfectionism Can Make Us Ill
How Our Inner Perfectionist Can Push Us Into Exhaustion and Burnout Anna Katharina Schaffner | Psychology Today I see the best minds of...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 5 min
What's So Great About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
7 Reasons why I love ACT Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Most of you will already have heard of Acceptance and Commitment...
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Burnout Paradox: Burnout and the Circle of Control
Notes on Exhaustion. Blog #1 Anna Katharina Schaffner | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY There is a huge paradox at the heart of burnout debates: Coaches...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 3 min
Failing on All Fronts
An emotional reckoning on holiday in Lanzarote By Anna Katharina Schaffner European literature | Book Review | TLS “Man mastering...
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- Mar 4, 2022
- 5 min
Citizens of a Happy Moment
Love and idealism in the last days of the GDR By Anna Katharina Schaffner European literature | Book Review | TLS I was eleven when the...
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- Nov 11, 2021
- 11 min
The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths
When it comes to self-improvement, we have much to learn from our ancestors and other cultures. What is more, self-improvement practices...
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- Nov 2, 2021
- 6 min
Can it be that it was so simple then?
A guide to the mindset of our evolutionary past Anna Katharina Schaffner | Book Review | TLS Most philosophers approach the question of...
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- Jul 9, 2021
- 7 min
Define or Be Defined: On Labelling Ourselves
Emerge | Essay Published on 7 July 2021 Hello lovely people. This is the first of a new series of monthly reflections on what is emerging...
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- May 31, 2021
- 12 min
Can Emergence Be our Saving Grace?
Perspectiva | Essay Published in March 2021 Why does the concept of emergence resonate with so many of us, at this particular historical...
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- May 20, 2021
- 13 min
Interview with Minna Salami
EMERGE Philosophy | Interview for Emerge Minna Salami is a Nigerian, Finnish and Swedish writer, feminist theorist and the author of...
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