Social media has altered how many people connect, communicate, and maintain relationships. Yet questions remain around what happens to biological systems, evolved for real face-to-face relationships, when they are activated through screens.... Read more »
Our lives are made up of endings: the end of childhood, of a marriage, a job, a dream. Some are obviously heavier and have more impact—a divorce, the loss of a parent,... Read more »
The phrase “losing control of AI” tends to summon one image: a powerful system ignores its instructions, pursues its own objective, and becomes difficult to stop. Until recently, that belonged largely to... Read more »
We often decide we don’t like someone—a colleague, an acquaintance, an actor or influencer—simply because they “annoy” or “irritate” us. The habit someone has of flicking their hair, or sniffing or swallowing... Read more »
Three quarters of a century ago, the preeminent cultural historian Jacques Barzun wrote, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Baseball favors a measured, pastoral... Read more »
Most often when we hear references to heroes, we think of soldiers, firefighters, or law enforcement. Dictionary entries for “heroism” are typically circular, defining heroism in terms of the qualities of a... Read more »
This is Part 3 of a series on the controversial Lindsay Clancy case. Read Part 2 here. The crucial question of whether Lindsay Clancy was or was not psychotic at the time... Read more »
In our current world, the question isn’t whether a child will get a cell phone. It is instead when to get one and how to support the healthy use of such a... Read more »
Sometimes in therapy, I use the metaphor that our work is like inner architecture. Imagine walking into an old house you’ve just bought. Perhaps there’s a wall cutting awkwardly through the middle... Read more »
No one goes to therapy as their first intervention. When faced with a problem, no one’s first instinct is, “Guess I’ll start counseling.” In the old days, people facing a problem or... Read more »