July 2006

Crack Me Up

Humor in relationships is touchy: Laughter can bring you closer, or it can pack a cruel punch. How to avoid the pitfalls and use humor to strengthen your bond.

Tortured Love

Linda Carroll's unorthodox relationship with her famous mother and infamous daughter forced her to reevaluate love, loss and the control we have over the people we most want to protect.
Extreme Psychology

For a small band of shrinks, intervening in catastrophic situations is an everyday event. But their experience at the edge has deep consequences for us all: It is altering our understanding of the true nature of human nature.
Lost Love: Guess Who's Back?

Old flames still smolder, especially when they're early love affairs, which leave a particularly vivid mark in our minds. Reawakening such a romance can be an incendiary experience—intensely passionate and dangerous to trifle with.
What's Your Humor Style?

Are you a joker? A teaser? A clown? How you deploy your sense of humor says a lot about how you relate to others and to yourself.

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The Art of the Tease

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How Do You Use Humor?

How do you use humor? Take the quiz.

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Crack Me Up

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Can't Buy Me Love

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Fear of clowns.

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Word Watch: Attack of the Clones

Inaccurate idioms can be badges of social literacy.

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How Can I Deal With an Unfair Will?

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by Louise Dobson

Extreme Psychology

Meet the psychologists at the outer limits of experience.

by Joann Ellison Rodgers

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Emo Philips on Being Funny

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Jealousy: A Voice of Possessiveness Past

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