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When my dad entered hospice last fall, I realized how little I knew about dying.
Fragments of Humanity
Fragments of Humanity is a place to collect the tiny fragments of the collective story that makes us human.
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Remembering Our Selves
The Neuroscience of Memory in "Still Alice"
Inching Toward the Sky
Habit and the Neuroscience of Becoming in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
Becoming Indomitable
Jane Eyre, the Central Executive Network, and the Power of Persistence
The Magic Is All Around Us
The Secret Garden, the Salience Network, and the Neuroscience of Letting the World Back In
The Sliver We See
The Salience Network and Ian McEwan's "Atonement"
Unsolvable Fear
The Push and Pull of Disorganized Attachment in Sally Rooney's "Normal People"
Holding Ourselves at Arm’s Length
The Mercy of Dissociation in Jenny Offill's "Dept. of Speculation"
The Seductive Chemistry of Resentment
"The Amateur Marriage" and Negative Sentiment Override
The Dreams That Try to Save Us
What Dostoevsky and Jung Knew About the Language of the Unconscious