Even after they’re gone, the people who truly see us keep helping us grow. Love, loss, and meaning intertwine to transform ...

We spend our lives waiting for “real life” to begin. This piece explores why we keep deferring joy, how our brains fuel the illusion of “later,” and how to start living now.

The mind under pressure doesn't break—it forks. One stream runs your life; another holds what you couldn't feel then. Here's a way to think about how that works.

Accurate diagnosis transforms confusion into clarity, reducing emotional distress and self-blame. Validation through testing aligns internal experience with objective data. Research shows that ...

When I introduced Steven Pinker, it felt like our worldviews couldn't have been more different. Here's why that dissonance was exactly the point.

Do you ever wonder about what gets better with age? Recent research shows that older people have special qualities as long as they can develop their concern for others.

Frankenstein has inspired collectors to seek out artifacts of the monster and his maker. This group illustrates the ...

Identifying bullying may seem like the job of schools, but therapists can help by learning to make it a compulsory assessment category and save a child from neuroses to psychoses.

The CDC reports that 40 percent of Gen Z feel persistently sad, and doom-scrolling has been linked to clinical pathology, ...

This phenomenon is known as the tall poppy syndrome, where those who “grow taller” than others are cut down to size. It’s ...

In the wake of massive trauma, we may lose, find, or create alternate worlds. Yet there are ways to reopen developmental ...

Jane Goodall’s life included years of detailed field observations and decades of tirelessly advocating for great ape ...