The psychological benefits – and trappings – of nostalgia
- Written by Krystine Batcho, Professor of Psychology, Le Moyne College
Winslow Homer's 'Boys in a Pasture' (1874).Wikimedia Commons
In his song “Time Was,” counterculture singer Phil Ochs reminisces about a past “when a man could build a home, have a family of his own. The peaceful years would flow; he could watch his children grow. But it was a long time ago.”
To Ochs, simpler times were...
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