“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” —The Beatles, “Eleanor Rigby,” 1966 Loneliness has been a problem throughout human history. In recent times, population growth, migration into ...

The masks Black women wear to survive stereotypes come at a cost. Learn how therapists can help clients reclaim their ...

Katharine Mershon examines how stories about human-dog relationships are actually very much about ourselves—​who's rescuing ...

A client struggling with gender identity asks for conversion therapy. You know it is harmful but a court decision seems to permit it. Do you honor or refuse the client's request?

Anyone should be willing to help anyone who’s stuck in a life-threatening situation. New research on moral dilemmas shows ...

Rejected one minute, needed the next. If you're the parent of a struggling adult child, this painful pattern hits even harder ...

Tolyamory is a portmanteau of "tolerate" and "polyamory," where you know that your partner is being unfaithful to you but you ...

Perimenopause can turn ongoing challenges into daily overwhelm and burnout leading many women to seek a diagnosis to make sense of their experience and get the right support.

We’ve long recognized the importance of buildings in meeting a basic human need: shelter. Now, research shows how buildings can improve our overall brain health.

When life lacks stable pathways to meaning, people may rely on existence itself as a basis for worth. This can reshape how ...

First, it was the loss of physical newspapers. Then it was phone prompts instead of real people. Now add GPS, digital books ...

When Voltaire said “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,” he highlighted a quirk of our psychology: we're rather slow to update our first impressions.