The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin
The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.
Psychology
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Identity Satiation
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.
When Therapy Makes Things Worse
Spending time with friends and family, exercise, and volunteer work are often more helpful than long conversations about one’s anxieties and grievances.
Is Life Coaching Just Modern Sophistry?
The popularity of a trend does not necessarily make it ethical.
Strong Like Teen Spirit
Parents should be more courageous in trusting adolescents’ capacity for joy and resilience.
When Kids Say They’re Trans
A new book explains how parents can help gender-distressed children who’ve come to believe they were ‘born in the wrong body.’
The Extraordinary Life of Tom Nash
“The deep end is the best place to learn to swim.”
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard
Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.
The Ever-Expanding Definition of Trauma
In diluting the word's meaning mental health professionals are creating a generation of victims.
What Does She See In Him?
The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.
Father Absence Has Already Peaked
A Reply to David C. Geary's 'The Rise of Father Absence and Its Attendant Social Ills.'
Nick Cave: “Conservatism Is an Aspiration”
The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.