This video, part of our Bridging Differences for Parents and Teens series, explains how to cultivate awareness of feelings without becoming preoccupied with judging them.
At the end of winter break at the Garlough Environmental Magnet School in West St. Paul, Minnesota, more than 50 students did not return to class. At the time, federal immigration agents were conducting military-style operations throughout the area, detaining...
A new UC Berkeley study finds that oxytocin, often dubbed the "love hormone," is also critical to the formation of friendships. The hormone is released in the brain during sex, childbirth, breastfeeding and social interaction, and helps produce feelings of...
The war in Ukraine has now lasted more than three and a half years. During that time I have supported many Ukrainians coping with the psychological effects of both internal and external displacement. Public attention has largely focused on logistics...
Reflections on Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychoanalytic interpretation, though subject to the analyst’s own biases and limitations, should not be dismissed as merely subjective or arbitrary. While interpretations inevitably arise within the context of specific psychoanalytic traditions—such as Freudian, Kleinian, or relational...
When you question your work with a client, have you considered consulting artificial intelligence? Have you weighed the ethical and legal implications of doing so? If you enjoy this kind of reporting and want more feature stories, analyses and video...
What is happiness? What is gratitude? We each have our own definitions of these, and for the most part, they will probably sound pretty similar. But if we were to take a deeper dive into the two, we would we...
Many people replay the same "what if" scenarios late into the night, hoping worry will somehow prepare them for what lies ahead. Worry often masquerades as planning, responsibility or even love — a protective mechanism against disappointment or perceived danger....
The other day, a client asked: "Isn't it unfair that the people around me still can't tell I'm going through something and that I have to spell it out every single time, even after all these years?
We’ve all been there: replaying a conversation in our heads, questioning a decision we made, wondering what could have been. The list goes on. We overthink things. Overthinking might start with good intentions. It can be the mind’s way of...