In May 2012, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department for maltreatment of inmates in Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison…
Starting therapy can be an anxiety-provoking experience that is intensified by uncertainty about what happens during the actual sessions. In an interview with two clinical…
You’ve seen it a thousand times: the mysteriously sexy male protagonist…the lone wolf. He saunters into women’s lives, gives them a wink, and they trip…
Nyassa Navidzadeh, a psychiatrist from Montreal, Canada, spent several months overseas, providing aid to the victims of the Ebola outbreak. Based in Foya, Liberia, she…
Hearing voices is usually considered a sure sign of mental illness, but recent studies suggest that hearing voices is more common in the general population…
Smartphone apps like Tinder, Grindr, Down, Tingle and Snapchat have opened up a new chapter in the complicated world of dating and casual sex. Dubbed…
“For a child that has sensory hypersensitivity, every touch is painful. A hug is perceived as a painful gesture.” So says Yael Ohri, a preschool…
Spend five minutes at a park, and soon you’ll hear enthusiastic parents reinforcing their kids with, “you did so amazing” and other statements as a…
In her 2012 TED talk on domestic violence, Leslie Morgan Steiner discusses what she calls “crazy love,” the irrational and often deadly tendency to be…
About two years ago, I personally came face to face with the suicide attempt of my best friend, Bella. Distraught, she had called to tell…
