After his son’s suicide aged 18, Steve Mallen sees the world differently. Along with a growing number...
Mental Health
Although measures of teen and adult happiness dropped during the high unemployment rates of the Great Recession,...
Don’t aim for completion / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kieran Setiya / 01.26.2018 Professor of Philosophy Massachusetts...
Holloway Sanatorium in 1885 / Wellcome Library By Julia Nurse / 08.07.2016 Collections Researcher and Web Content...
Many reasons that weren’t explored may account for the findings that women who drank coffee decreased their...
Social isolation is linked to increased blood pressure and depression. By Dr. Jed Magen / 02.26.2018 Associate...
By Lalita Kaplish / 03.02.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome Library George Shuttleworth was a psychiatrist and an asylum...
St Lukes Hospital, London: patients case book 1912-1916. Wellcome Library reference: H64/B06/015. What did it mean for a...
By Gilbert Ross / 01.05.2018 Is Loss of Sense-Making Threatening Our Existence? We are living in a...
Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and...
James Stewart and Donna Reed in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA By Dr. Dan Romer /...
Even Santa can get worn out, which can lead to getting the blues. / Photo by Stokkete ...
Could understanding canine compulsions help find new treatments for people with obsessive–compulsive disorders too? By Shayla Love /...
Out of the blue, Vanessa Potter lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch...
By Gilbert Ross / 11.24.2017 How to Bounce Back from Adversity Everything in life is in constant...
By Mark Manson / 11.23.2017 Learning to Transmute Our Sufferings A poor, black female in the segregated...
By Jacob Devaney / 11.21.2017 Master Your Fear of Failure None of us enjoy a smack-down from...
Does living at a higher altitude affect your mental health? VAndreas/shutterstock.com By Dr. Hoehun Ha / 11.05.2017 Assistant...
pimchawee By Dr. Jean Twenge / 11.14.2017 Professor of Psychology San Diego State University Around 2012, something...
By Dr. Emma Barrett and Dr. Nathan Smith / 10.30.2017 Barrett: Research Fellow in Psychology, Lancaster University...
Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be...
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II, Engraved by Bernard Baron, 1745 / Wellcome Library By Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner /...
A pair of identical twins. The one on the right has OCD, while the one on the...
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. Detail. Bronze. 160-170s. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori. By Dr. Robert...
07.23.2017 he ability to stay positive is one of the first things to go when we’re going...
By Melody Walford / 07.28.2017 Traumatic Memory and How to Heal it Have you ever been told...
By Toko-pa / 07.18.2017 Learn How Your Sadness can Serve You “My mother slept with an axe...
By Heather Plett / 07.05.2017 How You Can REALLY Help When my mom was dying of cancer,...
What effect does longing have? Is it a useful psychological tool or a perilous trapping? / Photo...
Stephen Hinshaw explores what it meant to be raised by a father with psychosis—and how that experience...