Evans sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful...

Ira shows that psychotherapists approaches to Buddhist traditions are moulded by how they relate to what is and is not religion...

Entering into psychoanalysis takes courage, for patients and analysts alike...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?

Elizabeth Schechter argues that while split brain subjects have two minds and two subjective perspectives, and are two intentional agents...

Baum's book is a genealogy of “psychiatric modernity,” of the invention and reinvention of modern mental illness in Beijing, 1901-1937...

Dr. Moran discusses obstacles to behavior change, taking committed action toward one’s values, and how mindfulness can help people make lasting changes...

Essentialism is a systematic discipline designed to support making life decisions that help you to make your highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter...

Emotional Intelligence involves self awareness, self control, relationship management and social awareness....

Increasing self-compassion and compassion for others, may just be the key to your well-being...

When Susie Orbach set out to depict how psychotherapy sessions really work, she did not want to go the conventional route—that is, taking real case material and distorting and disguising it into a form with minimal resemblance to the original.

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....

Benoît Majerus uses an impressively wide range of visual sources, from religious images and architectural photographs to neuroleptic advertisements and administrative maps.

Much of the debate about the roles of nature vs. nurture in the development of individual people has settled into accepting that it's a bit of both...

Dr. Gelfand examines how the threat environment shapes a nation’s culture, as well as how organizations, such as the military, are shaped by cultural forces...

Dr. Yael Schonbrun takes a dive into evolutionary psychology with professor and author, Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams...

Most of us can be self-critical about our bodies sometimes...

In this this interview, cross-posted from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Diana Hill talks with Dr. Stephan J. Guyenet, neurobiologist and obesity researcher, about the unconscious systems that lead to overeating and weight gain...

What is learning? There is a robust body of literature that seeks to tell us what the most effective classroom techniques and strategies are, but Joshua Eyler goes further...

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...

In this this interview, cross-posted from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Diana Hill talks with Dr. Kelly Wilson about kindness and the common humanity of feeling inadequate and broken...

We’re all familiar with cases where one attributes certain psychological states or capacities to creatures and systems that are not human persons....