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The Emotion Pharmacy

Everything you need to receive your prescriptions — music, films, paintings and literature — in one place.

This page is your companion to The Emotion Pharmacy Book. Each prescription in the book comes with four doses — find them here, organized by emotion. Scan the QR code in your book to return here anytime.

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🎶 MUSIC

Emotion	Song	Instruction	Link
Nostalgia	Haeven — Where the Heart Is	Eyes closed, one full listen	Listen
Hiraeth	Experience” – Ludovico Einaudi	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Longing for the Future	Bon Iver — Holocene	Headphones, eyes open	Listen
The Feeling That Time Is Slipping	Ólafur Arnalds — Near Light	One complete listen, eyes closed.	Listen
Seasonal Melancholy	Nick Drake — Northern Sky	Look outside while you listen.	Listen
Objectless Regret	Nils Frahm — Says	Headphones, eyes closed.	Listen
The Sadness of Happy Memories	RY X — Howling	Headphones. Let the voice carry whatever memory has been waiting.	Listen
Longing for a Life You Never Lived	Satie — Gnossienne No. 1	Eyes closed. Let the music be directionless with you.	Listen
Loneliness in a Crowd	Jason Walker – Echo	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Mature Jealousy	Lana Del Rey — Video Games	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Grieving Someone Still Alive	„The Night We Met” – Lord Huron	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Gratitude You Can’t Express	„Promise” – HAEVN	One complete listen, eyes closed.	Listen
Delayed Shame	Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel	One complete listen, headphones, eyes closed.	Listen
The Tension Before an Important Conversation	„Berlin” – RY X	One complete listen before the conversation, not after.	Listen
Incomplete Love	„Only” – RY X	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Betrayal	Freya Ridings — „Lost Without You”	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Waiting Without an Answer	Nathan Ball — „Drifting”	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Illusion of Intimacy With a Stranger	Brian Eno — By This River	One complete listen, eyes open.	Listen
The Impostor	„Bad Liar” – Imagine Dragons	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Objectless Anger	„Enter Sandman” Metallica	One complete listen, headphones, volume higher than usual.	Listen
The Exhaustion of Being Strong	„Behind Blue Eyes” Limp Bizkit	One complete listen, headphones, lying down if possible.	Listen
Guilty Calm	Nils Frahm — Familiar	One complete listen, eyes closed.	Listen
Self-Disillusionment	“Should Have Known Better” — Sufjan Stevens	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Hunger for Change Without Courage	“Running Up That Hill” — Kate Bush	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Missing Your Former Self	Ben Howard — „End of the Affair”	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Body Shame	Radiohead — „Creep”	One complete listen — standing, not sitting.	Listen
The Confusion of Transition	Haeven — Finding Out More	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Incomplete Grief	Linkin Park — „One More Light”	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Absence of the Living	Arvo Pärt — Für Alina	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Feeling of Being Left Behind	Novo Amor — State Lines	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
Nostalgia for Places	Max Richter — On the Nature of Daylight	One complete listen, headphones, eyes closed.	Listen
The Exhaustion of Self-Improvement	RY X — „Bound”	One complete listen, eyes open, no task.	Listen
Losing an Imagined Future	Bon Iver — Re: Stacks	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Grief of Growing Up	Amber Run — 5AM	One complete listen, eyes closed.	Listen
Mono no Aware	Haeven — Till the Morning	One complete listen, eyes open.	Listen
Feliksitas	HFlorence + The Machine — „Dog Days Are Over”	One complete listen, eyes open.	Listen
Sunday Melancholy	Cigarettes After Sex — Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby	One complete listen, by a window.	Listen
The Pleasure of a Perfect Moment Ending	Haeven — Finding Out More	One complete listen.	Listen
Emotional Kintsugi	RY X — Deliverance	One complete listen, headphones.	Listen
The Melancholy of a Sunset	Brian Eno — An Ending (Ascent)	One complete listen, eyes open, facing a window.	Listen

📽️ FILM

Emotion	Film	Instruction	Link
Nostalgia	Amarcord — Fellini, 1973	Opening sequence, first 12 minutes	Watch
Hiraeth	The Remains of the Day — James Ivory, 1993	The final scene, last 10 minutes.	Watch
Longing for the Future	Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola, 2003	The final scene, last 8 minutes.	Watch
The Feeling That Time Is Slipping	Boyhood — Richard Linklater, 2014	Final 15 minutes.	Watch
Seasonal Melancholy	Scenes from a Marriage — Ingmar Bergman, 1973	Episode 2, opening 10 minutes.	Watch
Objectless Regret	Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman, 1957	The opening dream sequence, first 8 minutes.	Watch
The Sadness of Happy Memories	Call Me By Your Name — Luca Guadagnino, 2017	The final fireplace scene, last 6 minutes.	Watch
Longing for a Life You Never Lived	Sliding Doors — Peter Howitt, 1998	The final 10 minutes.	Watch
Loneliness in a Crowd	Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola, 2003	The hotel bar scene, approximately minute 18.	Watch
Mature Jealousy	Amadeus — Miloš Forman, 1984	Approximately minute 34	Watch
Grieving Someone Still Alive	Away From Her — Sarah Polley, 2006	The scene where Grant visits Fiona and she no longer remembers him — approximately minute 52.	Watch
Gratitude You Can’t Express	Good Will Hunting — Gus Van Sant, 1997	The scene where Sean tells Will it is not his fault — approximately minute 98.	Watch
Delayed Shame	Atonement — Joe Wright, 2007	The scene where Briony understands what she has done — approximately minute 40.	Watch
The Tension Before an Important Conversation	Marriage Story — Baumbach, 2019	The argument scene, minute 94.	Watch
Incomplete Love	In the Mood for Love — Wong Kar-wai, 2000	The corridor scene, approximately minute 45.	Watch
Betrayal	Secrets and Lies — Mike Leigh, 1996	The dinner table scene, approximately minute 80.	Watch
Waiting Without an Answer	Approaching the Unknown — Mark Elijah Rosenberg, 2016	The midpoint scene, approximately minute 55.	Watch
The Illusion of Intimacy With a Stranger	Before Sunrise — Richard Linklater, 1995	The first 20 minutes.	Watch
The Impostor	Whiplash — Damien Chazelle, 2014	The final performance, last 12 minutes.	Watch
Objectless Anger	Falling Down — Joel Schumacher, 1993	The opening traffic scene, first 8 minutes.	Watch
The Exhaustion of Being Strong	Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan, 2016	The scene where Lee finally breaks — approximately minute 74.	Watch
Guilty Calm	The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick, 2011	The sequence of ordinary domestic peace, approximately minutes 40-52.	Watch
Self-Disillusionment	A Separation — Asghar Farhadi, 2011	The final courtroom scene, last 15 minutes.	Watch
The Hunger for Change Without Courage	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — Ben Stiller, 2013	The moment Walter steps onto the skateboard — approximately minute 28.	Watch
Missing Your Former Self	Stand By Me — Rob Reiner, 1986	The final scene, last 5 minutes.	Watch
Body Shame	Embrace — Taryn Brumfitt, 2016	The opening 15 minutes.	Watch
The Confusion of Transition	Lost in Translation — Coppola, 2003	Approximately minute 35.	Watch
Incomplete Grief	Blue Jay — Alex Lehmann, 2016	The final conversation, last 15 minutes.	Watch
The Absence of the Living	Nebraska — Alexander Payne, 2013	Approximately minute 65.	Watch
The Feeling of Being Left Behind	Frances Ha — Noah Baumbach, 2012	Approximately minute 48.	Watch
Nostalgia for Places	Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami, 2010	Approximately minute 40.	Watch
The Exhaustion of Self-Improvement	About Schmidt — Alexander Payne, 2002	The final scene, last 5 minutes.	Watch
Losing an Imagined Future	Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance, 2010	The opening scenes.	Watch
The Grief of Growing Up	My Neighbour Totoro — Hayao Miyazaki, 1988	The final 10 minutes.	Watch
Mono no Aware	Still Walking — Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008	The final family meal scene, approximately minute 90.	Watch
Feliksitas	My Dinner with Andre — Louis Malle, 1981	The final scene, last 8 minutes.	Watch
Sunday Melancholy	The Virgin Suicides — Sofia Coppola, 1999	The Sunday afternoon sequence, approximately minutes 30-42.	Watch
The Pleasure of a Perfect Moment Ending	Before Sunset — Richard Linklater, 2004	The final scene, last 5 minutes.	Watch
Emotional Kintsugi	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Julian Schnabel, 2007	The opening 10 minutes.	Watch
The Melancholy of a Sunset	Tree of Life — Terrence Malick, 2011	The creation sequence, approximately minutes 20-35.	Watch

🖼️ VISUAL ART

Emotion	Picture	Instruction	Link
Nostalgia	Christina’s World — Wyeth, 1948	Five minutes, no context, let the distance be yours	Art URL
Hiraeth	The Fighting Temeraire — J.M.W. Turner, 1839	Five minutes. Notice where your eyes go first	Art URL
Longing for the Future	Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich, 1818	Five minutes. You are not looking at him. You are standing where he stands.	Art URL
The Feeling That Time Is Slipping	The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí, 1931	Five minutes.	Art URL
Seasonal Melancholy	Wheatfield with Crows — Vincent van Gogh, 1890	Five minutes. Look for the light.	Art URL
Objectless Regret	Nighthawks — Edward Hopper, 1942	Five minutes. Notice which figure you are drawn to — and what they seem to be waiting for.	Art URL
The Sadness of Happy Memories	Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte — Georges Seurat, 1886	Five minutes. Wonder what they went home to that evening.	Art URL
Longing for a Life You Never Lived	Room in New York — Edward Hopper, 1932	Five minutes. Notice what you imagine about them.	Art URL
Loneliness in a Crowd	Nighthawks — Edward Hopper, 1942	Five minutes. Wonder what they are thinking about.	Art URL
Mature Jealousy	The Green Violinist — Marc Chagall, 1923	Five minutes. Notice whether you want to be the violinist or the audience — and what that tells you.	Art URL
Grieving Someone Still Alive	The Empty Chair — Vincent van Gogh, 1888	Five minutes. Let the emptiness be specific — let it belong to someone.	Art URL
Gratitude You Can’t Express	Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh, 1889	Five minutes. Let it be the thing you cannot say, made visible.	Art URL
Delayed Shame	The Prodigal Son — Rembrandt, 1669	Five minutes. Stay with the son — with his face hidden, his hands still, his return finally made.	Art URL
The Tension Before an Important Conversation	The Bedroom — Van Gogh, 1888	Five minutes. Let the stillness be the stillness before something necessary happens.	Art URL
Incomplete Love	The Kiss — Gustav Klimt, 1907	Five minutes. Notice that you cannot see their faces.	Art URL
Betrayal	Judith Slaying Holofernes — Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614	Five minutes.	Art URL
Waiting Without an Answer	Woman at a Window — Caspar David Friedrich, 1822	Five minutes. You are not looking at her. You are standing beside her.	Art URL
The Illusion of Intimacy With a Stranger	A Bar at the Folies-Bergère — Édouard Manet, 1882	Five minutes. Meet her eyes. Wonder what she sees.	Art URL
The Impostor	Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace — Frida Kahlo, 1940	Five minutes. She is not asking for your approval. Notice what that feels like.	Art URL
Objectless Anger	The Scream — Edvard Munch, 1893	Five minutes. Let it be what it is. Let yourself be what you are.	Art URL
The Exhaustion of Being Strong	Worn Out — Vincent van Gogh, 1882	Five minutes. You are looking at honesty.	Art URL
Guilty Calm	A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Georges Seurat, 1886	Five minutes. Notice that the painting does not apologize for its stillness.	Art URL
Self-Disillusionment	Self-Portrait — Rembrandt, 1659	Five minutes. This is what honest self-examination looks like.	Art URL
The Hunger for Change Without Courage	The Bedroom — Van Gogh, 1888	Five minutes. The question is whether you are ready.	Art URL
Missing Your Former Self	Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting — Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638	Five minutes.	Art URL
Body Shame	The Large Bathers — Paul Cézanne, 1906	Five minutes. Notice how that feels to look at.	Art URL
The Confusion of Transition	Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog — Friedrich, 1818	Five minutes. You are not lost. You are mid-crossing.	Art URL
Incomplete Grief	The Waiting Room — George Tooker, 1959	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Absence of the Living	Interior with a Woman at the Window — Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Feeling of Being Left Behind	Morning Sun — Edward Hopper, 1952	Five minutes.	Art URL
Nostalgia for Places	The Painter’s Garden at Eragny — Camille Pissarro, 1898	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Exhaustion of Self-Improvement	Water Lilies — Claude Monet, 1906	Five minutes.	Art URL
Losing an Imagined Future	The Oxbow — Thomas Cole, 1836	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Grief of Growing Up	Children’s Games — Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560	Five minutes.	Art URL
Mono no Aware	The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Katsushika Hokusai, 1831	Five minutes.	Art URL
Feliksitas	Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette — Renoir, 1876	Five minutes.	Art URL
Sunday Melancholy	Mystery and Melancholy of a Street — De Chirico, 1914	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Pleasure of a Perfect Moment Ending	Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet, 1872	Five minutes.	Art URL
Emotional Kintsugi	Starry Night Over the Rhône — Van Gogh, 1888	Five minutes.	Art URL
The Melancholy of a Sunset	Regatta at Argenteuil — Claude Monet, 1872	Five minutes.	Art URL

📚 LITERATURE

Emotion	Book	Instruction	Where to find it
Nostalgia	Speak, Memory — Nabokov, Chapter 1	First four pages, read the last paragraph twice	Amazon
Hiraeth	Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas	The opening monologue, first three pages.	Amazon
Longing for the Future	Rilke — Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Four	The passage about living the questions.	Amazon
The Feeling That Time Is Slipping	Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf, opening pages	First four pages only.	Amazon
Seasonal Melancholy	The Autumn of the Patriarch — Gabriel García Márquez, opening page	One page only. Read it as weather, not as story.	Amazon
Objectless Regret	The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy, Chapter 9	Read it once for the story. Read it again for yourself.	Amazon
The Sadness of Happy Memories	One Hundred Years of Solitude — García Márquez, Chapter 1	The opening paragraph only. Read it three times.	Amazon
Longing for a Life You Never Lived	The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost	The whole poem. Four stanzas.	Amazon
Loneliness in a Crowd	Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf, party scene	The final pages. Read it slowly.	Amazon
Mature Jealousy	Stoner — John Williams, Chapter 4	The passage where Stoner watches a colleague receive what he has always wanted.	Amazon
Grieving Someone Still Alive	The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion, Chapter 3	Chapter 3. Read it slowly.	Amazon
Gratitude You Can’t Express	Gilead — Marilynne Robinson, Chapter 12	Read it as if you wrote it.	Amazon
Delayed Shame	Crime and Punishment — Dostoevsky, Part 2, Chapter 1	Part 2, Chapter 1	Amazon
The Tension Before an Important Conversation	A Farewell to Arms — Hemingway, Chapter 41	The final conversation.	Amazon
Incomplete Love	Stoner — John Williams, Chapter 9	Read it slowly.	Amazon
Betrayal	Othello — Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 3	Read it not as tragedy but as anatomy.	Amazon
Waiting Without an Answer	Waiting for Godot — Beckett, Act 1	The first twenty pages.	Amazon
The Illusion of Intimacy With a Stranger	The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Kundera, Part 1, Chapter 2	The passage about the woman with the book at the café	Amazon
The Impostor	Letters to a Young Poet — Rilke, Letter One	Read it as if Rilke wrote it knowing you would need it today.	Amazon
Objectless Anger	The Grapes of Wrath — Steinbeck, Chapter 14	Read it aloud.	Amazon
The Exhaustion of Being Strong	The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath, Chapter 1	The opening pages. Read it slowly.	Amazon
Guilty Calm	Gilead — Marilynne Robinson, Chapter 6	Read it as instruction, not as consolation.	Amazon
Self-Disillusionment	Notes from Underground — Dostoevsky, Part 1	Read it not as pathology but as courage.	Amazon
The Hunger for Change Without Courage	The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho, Part 2, opening pages	Part 2, opening pages	Amazon
Missing Your Former Self	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — Joyce, final pages	final pages	Amazon
Body Shame	The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk, Chapter 6	Read it as if your body is listening.	Amazon
The Confusion of Transition	Letters to a Young Poet — Rilke,	Letter Four	Amazon
Incomplete Grief	A Grief Observed — C.S. Lewis,	opening pages	Amazon
The Absence of the Living	The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro,	final pages	Amazon
The Feeling of Being Left Behind	Stoner — John Williams,	Chapter 3	Amazon
Nostalgia for Places	Dubliners — James Joyce, The Dead,	final pages	Amazon
The Exhaustion of Self-Improvement	The Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu,	Chapter 16	Amazon
Losing an Imagined Future	Great Expectations — Dickens,	final chapter	Amazon
The Grief of Growing Up	To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee,	final pages	Amazon
Mono no Aware	The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu,	Chapter 1	Amazon
Feliksitas	Gilead — Marilynne Robinson,	Chapter 18	Amazon
Sunday Melancholy	Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf, the park scene	Read it at the pace the prose demands.	Amazon
The Pleasure of a Perfect Moment Ending	The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald,	final page	Amazon
Emotional Kintsugi	Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl,	Part 1, final pages	Amazon
The Melancholy of a Sunset	Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Section 52	The final section.	Amazon

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📽️ FILM

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📚 LITERATURE

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