The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the country have been widely discussed—but what about the impact on New York City, specifically?

Tired of the mechanical, narrowly rational human behavior of the Chicago school, but not exactly comforted by the emphasis on irrational activity in behavioral economics?

Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...

Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Mindfulness is widely embraced in the business and athletic communities as a valuable technique to optimize performance. Author Logan Thompson, an expert in both test prep and mindfulness, says that it's about time the test prep community embraces it as well...

In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings on the virtues and qualities that we most want to pass on to our kids...

Emotional Efficacy Therapy (EET) is a powerful and effective model for working with emotion regulation disorders...

Cribsheet provides the hard science behind so many of parenting questions we all have...

Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction...

Hayes describes how we struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt...

At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.

Relationships are hard, and it’s often because we defend ourselves against the very intimacy we seek by getting locked into problematic patterns of compulsive caretaking...

Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...

Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?

Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....

Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life?

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...

Warren offers an irreverent exploration of the how’s and why’s of meditation...