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Does Nostalgia Have a Psychological Purpose? with Krystine Batcho, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

CHAPTER

Nastasia Is Bitter Sweet

Can nastalgia hold us back by keeping us dwelling on the past? Can it really, you now, impede what is happening at the current moment and in the future? When i began collecting data, that was the prevailing belief among theorists. But generally speaking, that is not what happens. Nastasia is bitter sweet. So the sweetness entices us to revisit our ast but once were there, the bitterness of knowing that actually it no longer exists reminds us that we must return to the present. And that makes us want to return to thepresent. It's general y healthy.

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