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Psychology and Psychiatry
Explore the changing ways people have explained thought, emotion, behavior, and mental distress. These histories follow psychology from philosophy and early experimentation into a modern discipline shaped by scientific research, clinical practice, cultural assumptions, and ethical debate.
Whether in the form of a discreet titter or a full-on roar, laughter comes with many benefits...
Have you known anyone to enjoy studying? More often than not, studying (or work) can never be...
Every election triggers distress for some people. Here are some ways to possibly cope. Shortly after Abraham...
This is a proven fact. The scientific research which was carried out by the University of Toronto...
Most research comparing gun owners to non-gun owners suggests that ownership is rooted in fear. Originally published...
By Dr. Christina Starmans / 01.06.2017 Postdoctoral Associate in Psychology Yale University When was the last time...
Buddhist Man Meditating / Photo by Jakub Michankow, Wikimedia Commons ‘Mindfulness’ has become a household word, standing for inner...
We talk excitedly about meeting someone with whom we ‘click’ or ‘really hit it off.’ So why do so many of us hesitate...
The irrelevance of the heart to love has been amply demonstrated by cardiac transplant surgeons. In William...
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions,...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
Detail from a coloured etching after C-L. Desrais depicting people gathered around the “baquet” at one of...
We’ll say someone’s brainwashed only when we disagree with their beliefs or actions. lolloj/Shutterstock.com Forty years ago, Rebecca...
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
Javier Zarracina/Vox Subjective experiences, compelling storytelling, and tenacity of conviction do not alone make an idea worthwhile. By...
Mass psychology and nationalism as as a form of degeneration, or a barbarous and cruel regression after the Great...
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills. Patrick Sison/AP By Dr. Michael Robinson / 09.29.2017Assistant Professor of PsychologyWesleyan University It’s difficult to explain...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
Polygraph amplifer / Photo by glacial23, Wikimedia Commons A general overview of the literature and thinking to...
The Triumph of Civilization / Photo by Grizzli, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Wikimedia Commons The enormous contribution of ancient...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
By Dr. Vlad Petre Glăveanu / 08.31.2017 Associate Professor of Psychology Webster University Geneva It is always...
Relativity by M.C. Escher, 1953 / Wikimedia Commons One of the most remarkable human capacities is to...
By Rob Horning / 06.28.2017 Lately I have been reading Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I...
MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on...
Nero didn’t really fiddle while Rome burned – he wasn’t even there. Examining the link between societal crisis...
Wikimedia Commons Looking at the various forms of propaganda in circulation during the Russian Revolution. By Dr. Katya Rogatchevskaia...
Wilhelm Wundt founds the first formal laboratory of psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. / Wikimedia...