Skeptophilia

In Shirley Jackson's eerie gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle,  the main character -- an eighteen-year-old named Merricat B...

Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower...

Today I have for you two news stories that are interesting primarily in juxtaposition. The first is a press release about a study out of St...

Here's a hypothetical for you. There's a therapeutic practice being proposed for widespread use.  It has the following drawbacks: it...

I'm a big fan of the band OneRepublic, but I don't think any of their songs has struck me like their 2018 hit "Connection....

There's long been an association between creativity and mental illness.  Certainly there's plenty of anecdotal evidence -- people li...

When I was a kid, the high point of school was when we got the monthly Scholastic Book Club listings. The opportunity to pick out a handful ...

If you're fortunate enough not to suffer from crippling depression and anxiety, let me give you a picture of what it's like. Last we...

I think one of the reason I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter is that my feed sounds way too much like my brain. I do a lot of what...

Depression is, at its heart, a completely irrational condition. One of the (many) therapists I've seen during my life told me that the w...