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

Ntozake Shange Refused to Pathologize Herself. Here's What She Did Instead.

On mental illness, artistic form, and who gets to decide what's real

Do You Matter?

Five questions that highlight the quality of your connections

What it Means to be a Self.

Where Does the "I" of ME Live?

On the Difference Between Feeling and Emotion

How mislabeling our experience is keeping us stuck

How We Think About How We Think

A Nazi soldier, a Nobel Prize, and the map of human irrationality

Susan Sontag On Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better

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

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves

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

The Overlooked Observation That Keeps Us Coming Back

Bluma Zeigarnik’s framework for designing focus and closure.

The Only Manual For Living You'll Ever Need

The Hidden Document I Return to When I Come Undone

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

The Easiest People to Control

Why Smart, Well-Meaning Citizens Still Fall for Dangerous Leaders

The Con Artist Convincing Millions To Hack Reality

Millions of people are using mysterious numbers to manifest love, money, and healing — but few really know their backstory.

What We Mourn When We Mourn a Celebrity

On Tom Lehrer, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and collapsed space.

Things I'm loving: 2 books, 1 artist and 1 song.

What's getting me through

On Becoming a Person

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

How to Influence Who You Become—Using Neuroscience

Our brains have hidden systems. Here's how to use them...

From Puppies to Panic: ASK ME ANYTHING

Answering readers' questions about mental health!

The Unspoken Grammar of Love

The Subtle Patterns That Predict Divorce—According to the Psychologist Who Can Foresee It with 93.6% Accuracy

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Monday June 9th

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self

What Survives the Years: 7 Books That Shaped My Thinking.

On Reading, Rebuilding, and the Fragility of the Self We Archive

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