Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...

Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...

Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as violent and sex driven becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...

Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...

Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us...

Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...

Adams' son is on the autistic spectrum, and her love for him becomes a beautiful and passionate engine that ultimately leads her to start a movement that may just transform how we see camels and how we see and treat autism...

Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...

Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...

Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..

Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...

Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...

Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...