NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with culture writer Rebecca Fishbein about her article for Bustle on how "therapy speak" may be making us less empathetic.

Everyone is telling one another to “get help,” but few acknowledge that the practice is often flawed.

The Most Important Skill Set in Mental Health What We Found After Analyzing Nearly 55.000 Studies Credit: Nicole Avagliano Why does psychotherapy work? Until relatively recently, many scientists …

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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.

This Mental Health Month, we have an opportunity to focus on our signs, stressors, and solutions. By Arianna Huffington.

21-year-old Mark Metry is the founder of VU Dream and host of the Humans 2.0 podcast. Read about his inspiring journey!

Early life adversity -- including neglect and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse -- is the single biggest risk factor for psychiatric disorders, new research suggests.

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!

Looking for apps to track mood? Try these best mood tracker apps and see the relation between your activities and your mood.

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

Cognitive behavioural therapy has created interventions that truly help people to change. Here are the best of them

Learn how to answer the naysayers in your mind

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.

71U031 is part 1 of Gregory Bateson's 1971 lecture on consciousness and psychopathology.

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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…

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 …