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Dr Pia Callesen is a therapist and metacognitive specialist, managing several clinics in Denmark and providing metacognitive therapy online in English. She has a PhD from Manchester University and ...

is a psychologist and author. She writes regularly about connection for Psychology Today and has been a featured connection expert in publications including The New York Times, The Telegraph and Vice.

But was Leibniz on to something? Could his worldview help us regain a clearer sense of how to be optimistic in the present day? In his day, the idea that the world could be arranged any differently ...