Psychoanalysts and Therapists

The Social Experiment That Changed How We Understand Ourselves

Solomon Asch and the unbearable pull of agreement.

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers on the painful gap between our true selves and performed selves

Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival

The Hidden Language of Healing: 10 Things Every Great Therapist Knows

A primer on what's left unsaid

The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The cognitive pull of the unsolvable

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Albert Bandura on Self-Efficacy: The Science of Confidence and the Belief in One’s Potential

Why Confidence is a Practice, Not a Trait

The Science of Connection: What Four Decades of Attachment Research Reveals About Our Deepest Human Bonds

Understanding the Invisible Architecture of Human Attachment

Art as Liberation: How a Viennese Psychiatric Institute Became a Sanctuary for Creativity

How The House of Artists at Gugging Became a Model for Psychiatric Reform

The Psychology of Catastrophizing: The Hidden Logic of Self-Torment.

The Second Arrow of Awfulizing

All in Your Head: Franz Gall, the Fowler Brothers, and the Science That Wasn’t

Phrenology, Franz Gall & The Fowler Brothers