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Why Knowing Your Limits Can Be Your Major Advantage

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Lixing Sun Ph.d

Is Romantic Curiosity a Virtue?

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Aaron Ben-Zeév Ph.d

Hanging On to Hope, Even in the Face of Disappointment

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Mary Mcnaughton-Cassill Ph.d

No One Asked, But You Delivered: You Pre-Interviewed Yourself

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Anna Braverman Psy.d

Adding Comfort and Dignity to the Breast Cancer Journey

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John Mccarthy Ph.d

Surf Therapy for PTSD Recovery

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Jaimie L Lusk Psy.d

Is What We Remember True?

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Samantha Stein Psy.d

What Brings Out the Secret Snob in You?

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Gina Barreca Ph.d

How Serious Games Tackle Serious Problems

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Simon Makin Ph.d

A Surprising Reason to Stop Working on Your Marriage

Why shifting from correction to connection is so powerful.

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Sheila Robinson-Kiss Msw

The Danger of Cognitive Hybrid Fluency

Smooth answers don't equal deep understanding.

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Cornelia C. Walther Ph.d

Our Brains on Smartphones and Social Media

What is the toll on our mental health?

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Nicole A. Tetreault Ph.d

Supporting Someone with BPD: Tips for Family Members

Focus on your relationship and emotion regulation skills, not your loved one's.

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Karyn Hall Ph.d

ADHD and the Motivation That Never Comes

Personal Perspective: My strategies to combat ADHD.

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Sophie Riegel

The Fall of Imagination

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John Nosta

Helping All Moms Survive Labor and Delivery

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Vanessa Lobue Ph.d

The Third State of Knowing

How AI expands the domain of human understanding.

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John Nosta

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

“Wonder drugs” for opioid use disorder look different on the streets than in medical journals.

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Ted Beauchaine Ph.d

Introspection and Consciousness: The Illusionism Debate

On illusionism, cartesians, and qualia.

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Walter Veit Ph.d

Venezuela and the Rare Skill of Holding Conflicting Views

Why tolerating uncertainty matters more than taking sides in unresolved crises.

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Jon Rosemberg Mapp

The Birth Order Hoax

Why your place in your family doesn't define who you are.

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Sam Goldstein Ph.d

The Venting Trap: Why Letting It Out Makes It Worse

Decades of research show catharsis strengthens anger, rather than relieves it.

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Mark Lipton Ph.d

My Dad Got Sick—Doctors Dodged, AI Didn't

Personal Perspective: Artificial intelligence gave me clarity to face what was coming.

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Becky Diamond

4 Emotionally Intelligent Ways to Handle Unpleasant Interactions

Don’t be blindsided and paralyzed by rude, backhanded comments. Have a plan.

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Erin Leonard Ph.d

What a 1939 Experiment Teaches Us About Political Leadership

Will Americans promote the kind of leadership that democracy actually requires?

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Peter T. Coleman Ph.d

An "Awkward Grief" for Her Half-Brother—in Life and in Death

In a poignant essay, Patti Davis describes disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss.

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Fern Schumer Chapman

When and Why “Management” Became a Dirty Word

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Ronald E. Riggio Ph.d

A Key Technique Therapists Use to Figure Out Kids

Here's one way that therapists decipher children’s hidden feelings.

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Evan Shopper

What Happens When We Can't Retire?

Involuntary delayed retirement poses physical and mental health risks.

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Michael Shelton Ms

Why Childhood Neglect Still Shows Up in Adult Relationships

Identity diffusion, emotional neglect, and how couples therapy supports healing.

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Joanne Bagshaw Ph.d

Managing January Meltdowns

Guidance for navigating the post-holiday slump.

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Kyle D. Pruett M.d

How Therapists Can Heal Our Attention

Therapy is a stronghold against human fracking and the war to control attention.

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D. Graham Burnett

Patriarchy, Religion, and the Myth of “Real Sex”

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Joe Kort

What Happens If One Partner Pushes and the Other Pulls Away?

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Leon Garber Lmhc

Was Barbie Always Autistic?

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Amy Marschall

Genius Dogs or Not?

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Juliane Bräuer Ph.d

The World Is Progressing and Making Men's Lives Challenging

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Gary Wenk Ph.d

How and Why We Use, Downplay, or Ignore Evidence

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Glenn C. Altschuler Ph.d

Tools for Emotional Regulation When Life Hurts

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Nan J. Wise Ph.d

How to Recover From Messing Up

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Alice Boyes Ph.d

The Truth Behind Red Wine’s Effect on Health

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Kristen A. Carter Ms

How Probiotics Reduce Inflammation

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Scott C. Anderson

10 Things a Hitman Thought Before Pulling the Trigger

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Sigifredo Castell Britton Ph.d

Why Connecting With the Inner Child Feels So Challenging

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Friedemann Schaub M.d

How to Make a New Year’s Resolution That Actually Lasts

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Lauren Palumbo

Boundaries and Knowing What You Need to Show Up

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Mark Oconnell Lcsw-R

How to Use the '5-Date Rule' in Dating

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Bruce Y. Lee M.d

The "Not Good Enough" Lie

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Anna Katharina Schaffner Ph.d

The Key to a Better Life

Be more curious, less judgmental.

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Steven Stosny

Forgiveness Is an Inside Job

Forgiveness: How mercy opens the door, but honesty gets us through it.

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Yvonne Castañeda