A collection of 94 posts
Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders.
Spending time with friends and family, exercise, and volunteer work are often more helpful than long conversations about one’s anxieties and grievances.
The popularity of a trend does not necessarily make it ethical.
A new book explains how parents can help gender-distressed children who’ve come to believe they were ‘born in the wrong body.’
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
I have known Klaus Fiedler for over forty years, and he is one of the most fair-minded and decent scientists I have ever met.
In its panicked dismissal of Klaus Fiedler, the APS has failed to deliver procedural justice
In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars.
Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?
What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives.
We’ve lost the ability to navigate our inner worlds, to sit with or navigate anything uncomfortable. We avoid, push away, or lash out because we don’t know how to handle discomfort.
Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.