DEPRESSION: Navigating Underwater

Be curious about your pain and you'll find that though it may not be optional, the pain of your reaction is. Learn how meditation can quell suffering and pain.

An excerpt from "Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience."

By Tiffany Harper Meditation is an old spiritual exercise, commonly associated with Oriental spirituality. The method involves mindfulness, relaxation, and breathing patterns. The goal is to achieve a general state of well-being, specifically a psychological one. Today, meditation is a widespread wellness practice. You can find through meditation tutorials in books, on Youtube, or by

The tumultuous experience of being an entrepreneur can lead to self-doubt, imposter syndrome and burnout. Proactive care of your mental wellbeing can help to optimize your talents as an innovator and leader.

An exhaustive, well-powered review may have conclusively debunked the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression.

The chemical imbalance theory has fallen in status from bedrock scientific principle to mere marketing device in the minds of many researchers. A broken heart and a blue, bedevilled brain. They've been twinned, metaphorically, in poetry and song...

In recent years, bacteria have been growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics – our strongest weapon against them.

Evidence-based medicine is valuable to the extent that the evidence base is complete and unbiased. Selective publication of clinical trials — and the outcomes within those trials — can lead to unre...

Long-term use of pills for anxiety and sleep problems may be linked to Alzheimer's, research suggests.

To me, anyone who is too far on one side of the fence -- either wanting to throw a pill at any negative emotion, or wanting to blame medications for all of society's ills -- seems to be missing the point. Instead of taking an extreme view, I strive to take a wise, balanced, and integrative approach.

I blame mainstream Western psychology for a lot of the neoliberal bullshit we’re all inundated with. As I’ve gone further into the field of psychology (I have a Masters in counseling psychology and work with therapy clients regularly), I’ve come to see it as mostly individualized, white-centered, male-led, capitalist propaganda. While this isn’t always true, generally speaking, it’s an issue, and it’s having devastating impacts on our ability > MORE

It continues to come as a great surprise for many people to learn that psychiatry’s leading authorities, including the former longtime director of the

A Harvard historian urges psychiatrists to focus less on making money and more on helping patients

British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful,...

In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach

Mental health has declined as prescriptions for antidepressants and other drugs keep surging

It's no secret that reading is good for you. Just six minutes of reading is enough to reduce stress by 68%, and numerous studies have shown that reading keeps your brain functioning effectively as you age. One study even found that elderly…

Psychological phenomena have long been thought of as universal. But it turns out scientists may have been blinded by their own culture.

One of the great myths of what often gets called “mental illness” is that people who have been diagnosed “lack insight”. The truth is that too many doctors lack the insight …

How a collaborative effort led to a revolutionary tool to save lives

Active imagination technique is a way of using dreams and creative thinking to unlock the unconscious mind. It was developed by Carl Jung between 1913 and 1916

Conversational narcissism is more common than you think. In fact, almost every one of us can act in this manner from time to time.

Every year, psychologists publish a staggering amount of research—it’s impossible to read it all. Still, I gave it a shot—and here are the six papers I found most fascinating. “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science,” from Science This paper isn’t really a study; it’s the outcome of an important movement in the field of psychology.

What do infants know about the world in which they live – and how do they grow and change with age? These are the kinds of questions answered by developmental scientists. This module describes different research techniques that are used to study psychological phenomena in infants and children, research designs that are used to examine age-related changes in development, and unique challenges and special issues associated with conducting research with infants and children. Child development is a fascinating field of study, and many interesting questions remain to be examined by future generations of developmental scientists – maybe you will be among them!

Think all psychotherapy is the same? Learn how interventions differ between methods.