Reflections on attachment, personality, family systems, and wellness, informed by research and clinical experience.
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy are not just clinical labels. They exist on a spectrum in the general population, shaping how people choose careers, handle emotions, and end relationships. New research reveals how these traits operate in ordinary settings.
Therapy promises self-discovery, but what does that actually look like in practice? New research on internet-delivered psychodynamic therapy reveals specific mechanisms of change, from recognizing defenses to experimenting with new ways of relating, and suggests that the process works even without a couch.
Most people imagine hallucinations as wild, surreal visions. The research tells a different story. People with psychosis overwhelmingly see ordinary humans who look, act, and speak like real people, and that realism is precisely what makes the experience so distressing.
Most people know exercise helps with mood. But the actual science behind why it works is more surprising than you might expect. New research reveals that exercise intensity physically rewires your stress response, and your personality might determine whether you stick with it.
When people talk about veterans struggling after service, the conversation usually lands on PTSD. But the way we talk about it is often incomplete. A rare ten-year longitudinal study reveals that the military-to-civilian transition is not just a mental health challenge. It is an identity crisis.
A month-long experiment blocked mobile internet on people’s phones. The results: better attention than being 10 years younger, mental health improvements larger than antidepressants, and more time spent with actual humans. Here’s what the science found.
Psychedelic research has moved from counterculture curiosity to rigorous clinical trials. A new randomized trial shows psilocybin outperforming nicotine patches for smoking cessation, and researchers are exploring how combining psychedelics with exercise could reshape depression treatment.
One bad night of sleep does more than make you groggy. It triggers a buildup of the same toxic protein found in Alzheimer’s disease, and your ruminating thoughts might be making it worse. Here’s what the research says, and what you can actually do about it.
Men use mental health services at drastically lower rates than women, and it is not because they need them less. New research reveals what is actually behind the gap and what kinds of approaches genuinely reach men in distress.
Psychosis is not what most people imagine. New research reveals that visual hallucinations are vivid, multimodal, and deeply personal, while the psychiatric framing of these experiences may actually make them worse. Here is what clinicians and the public need to understand.
PTSD gets most of the attention when we talk about the cost of military service. But there is another wound that many veterans carry and struggle to name. Researchers call it moral injury, and it operates at the level of identity, not just symptoms.
Ghosting is not just rude. New research reveals that Dark Triad personality traits and insecure attachment styles predict who is most likely to vanish without explanation, and why it says more about the ghoster than the person left on read.
Three personality frameworks, three different lenses on who you are. Here’s an honest comparison of the Enneagram, MBTI, and Big Five, what each one actually measures, where the science stands, and why using more than one gives you the clearest picture.
You might assume that your Big Five personality traits predict your relationship happiness. Two recent studies suggest the truth is more nuanced: personality matters less for love than you’d think, but it matters more for digital stress than you’d expect.
There’s a difference between loving deeply and feeling like you’ll dissolve without someone. New longitudinal research maps how attachment anxiety, emotional dependence, and low self-confidence weave together into patterns that look like love but feel like survival.
Your attachment style doesn't clock out when you close your laptop. New research reveals how anxious and avoidant attachment patterns show up in online surveillance, conflict texting, and the way you scroll through a partner's social media at 2 AM.