John Tierney

The Surprising Benefits of Nostalgia

For nearly five centuries, doctors have classified nostalgia as a disease–even a form a psychosis. John Tierney, science columnist for Takeaway partner The New York Times, says that a  17th century Swiss physician first identified nostalgia as a disorder. In the 19th and 20th centuries, as waves of immigrants settled in the United States, doctors called […]

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