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Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+9

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

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

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+12

A Special Sleep Edition

A Special Sleep Edition

BECAUSE I'M NOT SLEEPING WELL. ARE YOU?

Premium

+2

Ask These Questions to Change Your Mind.

Ask These Questions to Change Your Mind.

Socrates to the rescue

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+6

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

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

The Second Arrow of Awfulizing

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+10

How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

How a Therapist’s Intuition Led to a Revolutionary Trauma Treatment

The Story of Brainspotting: David Grand’s Unexpected Discovery

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

One Year Without Therapy

One Year Without Therapy

How it's going

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

The Slow-Moving Magic of Psychodynamic Therapy

The Slow-Moving Magic of Psychodynamic Therapy

Quick fixes often create more problems.

Concepts

+4

The Ecosystem of the Soul: Dr. Shoma Morita on How to Live With Discomfort

The Ecosystem of the Soul: Dr. Shoma Morita on How to Live With Discomfort

The 100-year-old Japanese School of Morita Therapy

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

Do You Ever Feel Unreal, Like You're Separated From Yourself?

Do You Ever Feel Unreal, Like You're Separated From Yourself?

Decoding Dissociation, Depersonalization and Derealization

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

[ENCORE] I Found Freedom From Suffering in Someone Else's Trash.

[ENCORE] I Found Freedom From Suffering in Someone Else's Trash.

What We Need, We Already Have: Bruce Tift, Buddhism and Psychotherapy.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+4

The Life-Changing Magic of Healing Through Art

The Life-Changing Magic of Healing Through Art

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

Concepts

+4

Where You Look Affects How You Feel: The Story of Brainspotting

Where You Look Affects How You Feel: The Story of Brainspotting

David Grand and his pointed discovery

Tools & Practices

+4

Bonding Over Shared Trauma Isn't Trauma Bonding...

Bonding Over Shared Trauma Isn't Trauma Bonding...

Concepts

+5

Why is the Entire World Out to Get Me?? OR: What happens when we suffer from Cognitive Distortion.

Why is the Entire World Out to Get Me?? OR: What happens when we suffer from Cognitive Distortion.

How and why so many of us feel defective, broken, or just plain wrong.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

The Five Stages of Grief Are A Myth; Grief is a Process.

The Five Stages of Grief Are A Myth; Grief is a Process.

On the Grieving Brain

Concepts

+2

When Your Feelings Themselves Need a Therapist.

When Your Feelings Themselves Need a Therapist.

Somatic Experiencing Therapy

Tools & Practices

+3

Anxiety Disguises itself in Innovative Ways. Perfectionism is Just One of Them.

Anxiety Disguises itself in Innovative Ways. Perfectionism is Just One of Them.

Just when you thought you had a handle on your perfectionism...

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+5

How to Influence Your Thoughts and Finally Feel Better: Aaron Beck & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

How to Influence Your Thoughts and Finally Feel Better: Aaron Beck & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

Concepts

+3

On the Strange and Astonishing Therapy That Became the Gold Standard for Healing Trauma

On the Strange and Astonishing Therapy That Became the Gold Standard for Healing Trauma

How an outlandish-sounding therapy, founded by a doctoral student on a walk in the park, became the gold standard for trauma recovery.

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+9

On the Illusion of Self-Knowledge: How We Overestimate Our Own Awareness

On the Illusion of Self-Knowledge: How We Overestimate Our Own Awareness

You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+7

On Choosing What to Think: Dr. Chansky’s Practical Advice for Ruminators

On Choosing What to Think: Dr. Chansky’s Practical Advice for Ruminators

How to control your thoughts by choosing what to think about

Maladaptive Responses & Behaviors

+8

The Cure for Bad Feelings

The Cure for Bad Feelings

How Morita Therapy Redefines Emotional Struggle

Concepts

+3

The Tragic Muse of Modern Psychology: Christiana Morgan

The Tragic Muse of Modern Psychology: Christiana Morgan

Part 2: The Woman Who Inspired Jung and Vanished Into History

Concepts

+4

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