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Relationships

Are You Unconsciously Damaging Your Romantic Relationship?

Suzie Pileggi Pawelski, MAPP and James Pawelski, Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Happy Together

These three harmful habits can ruin your relationship. Here’s what you can do to nip them in the bud.

These three harmful habits can ruin your relationship. Here’s what you can do to nip them in the bud.

Relationships

It Wasn’t Love That Kept You: It Was This

Berit Brogaard D.M.Sci., Ph.D on June 23, 2025 in The Mysteries of Love

Why is it so difficult to walk away from relationships that are mostly making us hurt?

Why is it so difficult to walk away from relationships that are mostly making us hurt?

Therapy

Rethinking Confidence in the Therapy Room

Amir Levine Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Things to Consider

Personal Perspective: Feeling confidence as a practicing psychotherapist isn’t the absence of doubt—it’s learning to lead with honesty, humility, and your authentic self.

Personal Perspective: Feeling confidence as a practicing psychotherapist isn’t the absence of doubt—it’s learning to lead with honesty, humility, and your authentic self.

Anxiety

Why Gen Alpha Is the New Anxious Generation

Ryan Jenkins CSP on June 23, 2025 in The Case for Connection

Gen Alpha’s anxiety is rising fast—and it’s not just because of screens. Discover the hidden culprit and how we can raise stronger, more resilient kids in a tech-filled world.

Gen Alpha’s anxiety is rising fast—and it’s not just because of screens. Discover the hidden culprit and how we can raise stronger, more resilient kids in a tech-filled world.

Cognition

How BEAM Thinking Can Help You Think Like a Human

David Weitzner Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Managing with Meaning

The human brain isn't just a biological computer—it's better. This technique could help uncover and strengthen its innate abilities.

The human brain isn't just a biological computer—it's better. This technique could help uncover and strengthen its innate abilities.

Pregnancy

The Birth Story That Wasn't Promised

Melissa Rampelli Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in The Fainting Couch

What happens when the birth story you're promised falls apart? Erica Stern's memoir, "Frontier," dives into the haunting overlap of trauma, obstetric history, and maternal identity.

What happens when the birth story you're promised falls apart? Erica Stern's memoir, "Frontier," dives into the haunting overlap of trauma, obstetric history, and maternal identity.

Mating

Digital Misogyny

Robert Weiss Ph.D., LCSW, CSAT on June 23, 2025 in Love and Sex in the Digital Age

Online culture is shaping young men’s views on women, replacing vulnerability with entitlement. Therapists face new challenges as toxic narratives take hold.

Online culture is shaping young men’s views on women, replacing vulnerability with entitlement. Therapists face new challenges as toxic narratives take hold.

Emotion Regulation

Why Your Emotions "Leak" and What to Do About It

La Keita D. Carter PsyD., LP on June 23, 2025 in Inside Intimacy

Suppressing emotions doesn't make them disappear—in fact, they're likely to leak out through your body language, tone, and more. Here's how to spot "emotional leakage."

Suppressing emotions doesn't make them disappear—in fact, they're likely to leak out through your body language, tone, and more. Here's how to spot "emotional leakage."

Leadership

Appreciating a Significant Attribute of Effective Leaders

Robert Brooks Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Raising Resilient Children

So, you want to be an effective leader? What is one significant attribute you should especially be strengthening?

So, you want to be an effective leader? What is one significant attribute you should especially be strengthening?

Artificial Intelligence

Is AI the End of Dating Apps?

Liesel Sharabi Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Dating in the Digital Age

Could AI bring the dating refresh that we need?

Could AI bring the dating refresh that we need?

Dissociation

Childhood Dissociation: More Than Zoning Out

Melissa Goldberg Mintz Psy.D. on June 23, 2025 in Connection as Medicine

Childhood dissociation is more than what social media often portrays it to be.

Childhood dissociation is more than what social media often portrays it to be.

Artificial Intelligence

A Behavioristic View of AI

Michael Karson Ph.D., J.D. on June 23, 2025 in Feeling Our Way

AI gets things done while alienating us from our work, our friends, and ourselves.

AI gets things done while alienating us from our work, our friends, and ourselves.

Personality

Do Liberals Protest More Than Conservatives?

John A. Johnson Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Cui Bono

There is no reason to think that conservatives are less upset than liberals about policies they disagree with. Yet 32 of the largest 34 public protests are for liberal causes. Why?

There is no reason to think that conservatives are less upset than liberals about policies they disagree with. Yet 32 of the largest 34 public protests are for liberal causes. Why?

Suicide

A Variety of Factors Contribute to Youth Suicides

John Bateson on June 23, 2025 in Goodbye, Suicide

Childhood abuse, alcohol, bullying, and other factors increase the risk of suicide among youths.

Childhood abuse, alcohol, bullying, and other factors increase the risk of suicide among youths.

Relationships

What Is Your Psychological Relationship With Money?

Ira Israel LMFT on June 23, 2025 in Authenticity 101

Money shapes our lives in ways we seldom recognize, affecting our happiness, our relationships, and even our sense of self.

Money shapes our lives in ways we seldom recognize, affecting our happiness, our relationships, and even our sense of self.

Therapy

Therapy With a Real-Life Human Therapist Is Irreplaceable

Jennifer Gerlach LCSW on June 23, 2025 in Beyond Mental Health

A Personal Perspective: A therapist responds to the infiltration of AI into the mental health world.

A Personal Perspective: A therapist responds to the infiltration of AI into the mental health world.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness Around the Global Flourishing Study

Tyler J. VanderWeele Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Human Flourishing

Launching a Global Forgiveness Movement.

Launching a Global Forgiveness Movement.

Artificial Intelligence

AI and Emotional Intelligence

Jan Bonhoeffer M.D. on June 23, 2025 in Heart of Healthcare

As artificial intelligence rapidly infiltrates our daily lives, what happens to human connection?

As artificial intelligence rapidly infiltrates our daily lives, what happens to human connection?

Artificial Intelligence

I Asked AI Why I Was Afraid to Post, and It Got Real

Jeremy G. Schneider LMSW, MFT on June 23, 2025 in Human-Centered Technology

A Personal Perspective: Artificial intelligence helped me realize how fear was standing in my way, so I could deal with it and move forward.

A Personal Perspective: Artificial intelligence helped me realize how fear was standing in my way, so I could deal with it and move forward.

Therapy

Poetry as Medicine: Using Verse to Support BIPOC Mental Health

Shreya Mandal JD, LCSW, NBCFCH on June 23, 2025 in BIPOC Mental Health

Poetry therapy reminds us that when trauma and grief steal our words, verse can gently lead us back home.

Poetry therapy reminds us that when trauma and grief steal our words, verse can gently lead us back home.

Trauma

Your Body Remembers Trauma, Even Decades Later

Kaytee Gillis, LCSW on June 23, 2025 in Invisible Bruises

Trauma memories can stay stored in our body, even long after we thought the trauma had passed.

Trauma memories can stay stored in our body, even long after we thought the trauma had passed.

Evolutionary Psychology

Humans Are Fast Evolving Into an Astonishing Lifeform

Eric Haseltine Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Long Fuse, Big Bang

In your lifetime, we will become something larger than ourselves.

In your lifetime, we will become something larger than ourselves.

ADHD

Why ADHD Brains Thrive on Last-Minute Pressure

Ugochukwu Uche MS.,LPC on June 23, 2025 in Promoting Empathy With Your Teen

Many with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rely on urgency to focus, but this habit leads to burnout. Here's why it happens—and how to retrain the brain.

Many with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rely on urgency to focus, but this habit leads to burnout. Here's why it happens—and how to retrain the brain.

Bias

Keeping an Open Mind in an Increasingly Opinionated World

Sam Goldstein Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Common Sense Science

Open-mindedness, empathy, and curiosity can assist individuals in resisting polarization, overcoming bias, and fostering meaningful dialogue in today's divided world.

Open-mindedness, empathy, and curiosity can assist individuals in resisting polarization, overcoming bias, and fostering meaningful dialogue in today's divided world.

Forgiveness

The Healing Science of Forgiveness

Mitchell B. Liester M.D. on June 23, 2025 in The Leading Edge

Think forgiveness means being a doormat? Think again. Research shows it's an aggressive act of choosing peace over revenge—and it might be exactly what our divided world needs.

Think forgiveness means being a doormat? Think again. Research shows it's an aggressive act of choosing peace over revenge—and it might be exactly what our divided world needs.

SSRIs

Are You on the Right Antidepressant?

Lori Plutchik, M.D. on June 23, 2025 in The Colors of Contemporary Psychiatry

Finding the right antidepressant early in treatment may improve response rates, reduce time wasted on trial and error, and reduce the rates of recurrences.

Finding the right antidepressant early in treatment may improve response rates, reduce time wasted on trial and error, and reduce the rates of recurrences.

Behavioral Finance

Should You Die Broke?

Max Alberhasky Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Psychology, Money, and Happiness

Is it irrational to die rich?

Is it irrational to die rich?

Anxiety

Can ChatGPT Drive You Crazy?

Justin Garson Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in The Biology of Human Nature

A new social panic is taking hold. Should we be concerned?

A new social panic is taking hold. Should we be concerned?

Jealousy

"Alexa, Should I Siri-ously Be Jealous of AI?"

Martin Graff Ph.D. on June 23, 2025 in Love, Digitally

What emotions do we experience at the thought of our romantic partners using AI and sex robots? Does this differ between men and women?

What emotions do we experience at the thought of our romantic partners using AI and sex robots? Does this differ between men and women?