London, summer 2012. The North Greenwich Arena is alive with applause. Sixteen year old McKayla Maroney walks toward the vault as if the gold medal were already hers. A dominant force in artistic gymnastics vault, she had led the qualifications and entered the final as the clear favorite. That day, however, after a spectacular first…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is widely recognized as one of the most empirically supported psychotherapeutic approaches for emotional disorders, including anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors (Beck, 1976; Hofmann et al., 2012). Its core premise, that emotional suffering is mediated by cognitive interpretations rather than by events themselves, has transformed modern clinical practice. Yet this premise…
Every day, billions of people swipe their thumbs across their screens. This gesture, now reflexive, appears harmless, but it activates specific neural circuits and complex psychological processes. Infinite scrolling is not merely a form of entertainment. It reshapes our relationship to time, attention, and emotions, often without our awareness. Beneath the surface, it combines anticipation,…
“Good” news: AI does not think, but it does speak. “Bad” news: our unconscious speaks, while we imagine that we are thinking. This dual observation, paradoxical at first glance, lies at the heart of what I call Artificial Subjectivity. Let us begin by clarifying what we mean by “thinking.” If by thinking we mean a…
In 1974, the American philosopher Thomas Nagel, a professor at New York University and a major figure in the philosophy of mind, published what would become a landmark paper entitled What Is It Like to Be a Bat?. Behind a question that may appear deceptively simple lies a central problem in the scientific study of…
In a world saturated with information, social pressure, and simultaneous demands, anxiety no longer appears as a purely individual symptom. It reflects an era and a neural architecture constantly forced to adapt. Each brain, exposed to uninterrupted streams of stimulation, becomes the stage for psychic repetitions that seem to escape conscious control. Contemporary neuroscience shows…
Today’s female body carries a silent tension that does not appear in statistics but is inscribed in every muscle fiber, every heartbeat, every held breath. This is not pathology in the strict medical sense. It is a continuous adaptation to a demanding environment, to a society that tolerates neither slowness nor pause. Diffuse, recurrent, and…
More than three millennia ago, Odysseus reached the island of Circe, the sorceress who could turn men into beasts with a single gesture. She did not rely on force or coercion. She enchanted. She shaped an altered version of reality, a seductive mirror in which each person could become someone else, surrendering to an image…
Art is not merely a surface or an object to be admired. It reflects an intimate interplay between the brain, the body, and the unconscious. Repetition is not simply an aesthetic motif. It functions as a silent language that translates traumatic experience into rhythm and form. Neuroscience shows that the human brain encodes repetitive gestures…
It often begins harmlessly. A few videos to soothe a child after a difficult day, a cartoon to prepare dinner in peace, an app said to boost language development. Gradually, and almost without noticing, the screen slips into every moment of daily life. The evening routine turns into a struggle. Sleep becomes possible only after…