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,..

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

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

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...

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...