Psychology and Psychologists

January 9, 2025

Defining Depersonalization Derealization Disorder

The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition. Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. […]
December 27, 2024

The President-Elect Comments Often on the Men Around Him

“These guys are specimens.” With all due respect, the look that Prince William sported at the starry reopening of Notre-Dame in Paris this month was nothing […]
October 10, 2024

In Fashion Neurosis Podcast, Bella Freud Analyzes Celebrities

The designer Bella Freud — a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud — is using her podcast to “learn vicariously all the things I’ve secretly wanted to know” […]
January 9, 2024

To Prepare for Psychedelic Therapy, Doctors Breathe Their Way to an Altered State

The instructions were simple: Lying on cots while wearing eyeshades, participants were directed to take deep belly breaths without pause to the beat of fast-paced music […]
November 29, 2023

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Our 34-Year Age Gap Didn’t Matter, Until It Did

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa and Corey Schreppel and Marion Lozano, Carole Sabouraud and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify ‘We were absolutely clear there’s no way […]
June 14, 2023

New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming

Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to lose […]
March 22, 2023

Not Your Daddy’s Freud

In the fall of 2020, Ilan Zechory stepped down as president of Genius, the annotation site he founded with two friends from Yale. After more than […]
February 11, 2023

How Therapy-Speak Took Over Dating

In a time when emotional maturity is highly desirable, almost everyone is “doing the work.” When Lauren Scott was bored, dating became a remedy. It could […]
June 9, 2022

Logan Ury Says You’re Dating All Wrong

From her Oakland commune, a dating coach has made a big business out of her data-driven approach to modern romance. OAKLAND, Calif. — In the backyard […]
March 14, 2022

5 Ways to Calm Your Anxious Brain

Five ways to soothe a mind overstimulated by anxiety, stress and streams of information. Coronavirus cases are receding across the United States, and face masks are […]