Psychology

Bad dreams tend to be associated with children, which is why adults often feel embarrassed admitting to them.…

“Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,” wrote Shakespeare, “A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly.” And this…

Everyone experiences trauma. Parents age and die, marriages suddenly end, and businesses collapse. Life is full of distressing…

Few experiences are so certain or so painful as bereavement. With this fact in mind, the neuroscientist and…

If you are one of those people who jumps when a police siren wails or who cannot watch…

Ideas do not simply appear in a vacuum. Artists, philosophers and writers are often reacting in some way…

Time and again people settle down with someone who turns out to be an emotional mess. Years later,…

For some parents, their child leaving home is a trauma comparable to bereavement. And having friends tell them…