On Mistaking Anxiety for Perfectionism

The subtle ways anxiety reorganizes itself as virtue

Peter Levine and the Trembling Cure: On the Body's Buried Intelligence

What a lifetime of research into trauma and instinct reveals about the one place suffering actually lives

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

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

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

A Special Sleep Edition

BECAUSE I'M NOT SLEEPING WELL. ARE YOU?

Ask These Questions to Change Your Mind.

Socrates to the rescue

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

The Second Arrow of Awfulizing

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

What a figure skater who couldn't land her jump revealed about where trauma actually lives

One Year Without Therapy

How it's going

The Slow-Moving Magic of Psychodynamic Therapy

Quick fixes often create more problems.

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

The 100-year-old Japanese School of Morita Therapy

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

Decoding Dissociation, Depersonalization and Derealization

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

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

The Life-Changing Magic of Healing Through Art

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

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

David Grand and his pointed discovery

Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham on the Self You Can't See

How two psychologists cracked the code of self-deception and gave us a tool for seeing what we refuse to see

Why We Return to the People Who Harm Us

What cognitive dissonance, oxytocin, and a 1950s doomsday cult can teach us about why we stay with people who hurt us

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.

Phil Stutz and the Case Against Comfort

Some thoughts on the movie "Stutz"

The Science Behind Why You Pull Away

How your attachment style is choosing your partners

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

On the Grieving Brain

When Your Feelings Themselves Need a Therapist.

Somatic Experiencing Therapy

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

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

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

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

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.