Honoring Your Inner Witch
The portrayal of witches has swung from reverence to persecution through the ages. They exist outside society, figures of power and magic. Why do they continue to fascinate us?
Your Dreams Know More Than You Do: Are You Listening?
Dreams have fascinated us since the beginning of recorded history. What does recent neuroscience research tell us about why we dream and what our dreams could mean?
Using Stories to Treat the “Boy Crisis of 2025”
How storytelling can help boys reframe trauma and build identity: Part two of my conversation with therapist Tyler Schueffner, LPC-IT
Helping Men and Boys Navigate These Changing Times
A conversation with Tyler Schueffner, LPC-IT, about his uniquely varied approach to working with men and boys, especially those from working-class and marginalized communities.
Reawakening Our Responses to Overcome Habituation
Are current events making you feel numb? Habituation is when we have diminished responses to repeated stimulation. It can be overcome. Learn how to “dishabituate” and “resparkle.”
Motherless Sons: The Impact of Loss
How early mother loss shapes a boy’s identity, grief, and emotional connections
Feeling Lost? Try Reading a Poem
Research shows poems not only offer insight but also a healing balm for stress.
When World Events Invade Our Dreams
Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Thomas Singer on how dreams can reflect what’s happening in the world and can sometimes suggest solutions
How Do Personal and Cultural Complexes Differ?
Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst Thomas Singer explores the different ways personal and cultural complexes affect us
Understanding Anxiety: What Our Bodies Are Telling Us
Do psychological disorders have a physical origin?
The Orphan Within: Understanding Why We Feel We Don’t Belong
Why do we sometimes feel alone in the world, bereft of parents? The concept of the "orphan within" may help explain that.
Using Fairy Tales to Find Hidden Parts of Yourself
Fairy tales have enchanted us for centuries, but they can also be useful in clinical practice and for self-discovery.
Perfectionism: Recalibrating the Longing to be Perfect
Is perfectionism always problematic? Does it make a difference whether the drive for perfection is self-directed, other-oriented, or socially driven?
Teen Mental Health: What’s a Parent to Do?
With an emphasis on "teenage flourishing," research psychologist Matt Hirshberg shares some results of his studies on innovative techniques to improve teenage mental health.
What You Need to Know about Personal and Group Forgiveness
An interview with research psychologist Matt Hirshberg about interpersonal forgiveness and how we might apply what we know about it to group forgiveness.
The Changing Faces of Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century
As societal attitudes toward marriage, single parenting, masculinity, gender, and caregiving change, the roles fathers play in a child's development are changing, too.
A World Without Grandmothers: What Would We Lose?
In our collective experience, grandmothers provide wisdom, comfort, and support. What impact will declining fertility rates have on the role and appreciation of grandmothers?
Are We Hard-wired for Poetry?
What neuroscience research—and poets and educators—are saying about the benefits of reading poetry: get more poetry into your life.
Reframing How We Think about Women and Courage
What is courage? Is courage defined differently for men and women? Is courage socially conditioned, innate, or some mixture of nature and nurture? Can courage be learned?