If you have spent any time reading about the neuroscience of depression, you have probably encountered the same effects in the same brain regions again and again: The hippocampus shrinks. The ...

Inside a virtual reality headset, the body becomes negotiable. Look down and the torso may not resemble your own. Lift a hand and another hand rises in synchrony. Turn to a mirror and the stranger ...

The singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco has a song lyric that reads: “Buildings and bridges/Are made to bend in the wind/To withstand the world/That’s what it takes.” I’ve always liked this lyric, as it ...

Here's a question I sometimes ask parents of struggling adult children. Before I give you that question, I want to add that it usually stops these parents in their tracks. That's because this question ...

Quite some years ago, a colleague dragged me to a mindfulness training for mental health professionals. At that time, mindfulness was not considered a fully valid concept in psychology. As a ...

Could your anxiety be teaching your child to be anxious too? Learn how small changes in the way you respond to fear can help break the cycle and build your child’s confidence.

This post is co-authored by Emily Irving and Jeff Wetzler. Imagine you're wrestling with a difficult organizational decision and decide to stress-test your thinking with an AI assistant. You explain ...

No man can resist the song of the sirens. Their music is so enchanting that every sailor who hears it steers toward the rocks and is destroyed. Odysseus knew this. So when his ship approached their ...

While watching my students struggle to find compatible partners on dating apps, I began noticing the same mistakes again and again. Some profiles revealed almost nothing; others revealed too much.

Psychiatric medications are widely used in the treatment of mental health conditions. They include antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and other medications used to treat psychiatric ...

For nearly a decade, I was consumed by a shame I could not name and so could not master. I understand now that it was the shame of a sick man who did not know he was sick. I knew only its crushing ...

What happens when mothers become afraid to reveal their darkest thoughts? My postpartum journals show why creating safe spaces for honesty can be part of recovery.