What do we make of trolling from a psychological point of view? Is it a new unrestrained form of sadism unleashed by the internet? Is it a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, externalized via memes ...

When Ed Gein was arrested in Plainfield, Wisconsin, in 1957, the world learned what America had long been trying to deny — that the grotesque was not foreign or cinematic, but homegrown. The ...

Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy were followed by behaviorism (the second wave), then existential/humanistic therapies (third wave), then CBT and related approaches (fourth), and then many ...

Efforts to suppress or change a child's gender identity and sexuality are ineffective and cause long-term harm, according to new research.

InstagramAt the United Nations General Assembly, President Erdogan blamed Israel for the erosion of human rights in the ...

In 1930, Wessel was murdered by Communists, although the incident resulted from a tangled chain of events involving his unpaid rent and the landlady’s fear that his live-in girlfriend’s notoriety as a ...

The pain: A chamber that locked a woman out is now forced to watch her walk back in. The carpet is the same red; the air is not. Six months of isolation is a long time in a public life. It corrodes ...

When the harms of conversion therapy came to light a decade ago, and a campaign to ban its use on children swept the nation, prominent leaders in the “ex-gay” movement disavowed their work, dissolved ...

We're only a quarter of the way through the 21st century, but it's already given us scores of unforgettable performances, and this list ranks the very best. The performers below all achieve absolute ...

Learning to accept, reframe and regulate your emotions puts you back in the driver's seat of your life. But if this feels hard, remember: no feeling lasts forever. a. Ethan Kross's advice for emotion ...

From the Salem witch trials to McCarthyism and Charlie Kirk’s killing, an exaggerated fear of a particular group has resulted in repression from liberals and conservatives.

Hari Nef’s bookshelf feels like a mirror elegant, intelligent, and quietly subversive. From Woolf’s introspective London to Gaitskill’s haunted New York, every title she recommends examines beauty, ...