A brief note to readers: This piece centers on the experiences of parents who are estranged from their adult children. If you have estranged yourself from your parents or other family members,... Read more »
Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a powerful expression of and for humanity. It’s not simply a classic of psychology or a memoir of survival. It’s built upon a deeper authority... Read more »
The verdict delivered on March 25, 2026, holding Meta and Google responsible for purposefully designing social media platforms to be addictive, and knowing it can be harmful, is flawed at multiple levels.... Read more »
Anxious people try to control uncertainty. Because many real-life scenarios, especially important ones, contain irreducible uncertainty, that strategy can fall apart. But there are specific lessons we can learn to handle this... Read more »
Vulnerability and perfectionism are diametrically opposed. And that’s what perfectionists prefer. If we consider the idea of masking as it relates to autism and acknowledge that perfectionism is pronounced in the population... Read more »
I’m a parent. I love being a parent. I grow basil. I love making pesto. Every year around March or so, when winter starts to fade and spring peeks around the corner,... Read more »
Imagine the characters in a separation or divorce, amid overt and covert problems. How people end a marriage, who chatters to whom, what they think and do, and how they resolve differences... Read more »
Yogi Berra, baseball legend and accidental philosopher, once gave his friend Joe Garagiola directions to his house in Montclair, New Jersey. “When you come to a fork in the road,” he said,... Read more »
When people think about sports, attention is often driven to athletes’ physical abilities, psychological endurance, and team-based achievements (Sarkar & Fletcher, 2014). A far less visible but equally significant aspect of the... Read more »
Human-caused climate change is now affecting everyone around the world. Its health impacts are being tracked, focusing on physical health. Tracking climate change’s mental health impacts is far trickier. No long-term, global... Read more »