I hate to beat the drum of obviousness, but everything we think, feel or do has a neurobiological correlate.
If you run for 20 miles, most of us are going to be out of breath and heave air in and out of our lungs as they try and supply enough oxygen to our body. If you [...]

Psychotherapy is a complicated process, fraught with its own difficulties that a person doesn’t always understand or appreciate. One of those difficulties is understanding the boundaries between you and the therapist, and how to keep them intact all the while the therapist is asking (or demanding) that you “open up” more and be completely honest.
Sonia [...]

A lot of times, I write about the results of some new psychology research study or scientific analysis. I boil the results down to digestible findings and try and wrap the whole thing up in simple, common-sense terms.
But sometimes what I don’t write about is often more fascinating than what I do.
The science of [...]

If you’re a fan of the show, House MD, you probably enjoyed last night’s 2-part season opener with Dr. Gregory House finding himself in a psychiatric hospital. If you haven’t yet seen the episode and intend on watching it, you may want to skip reading any further, as I’m going to discuss plot components that [...]

Back in July, John Cloud wrote a piece for “Time” Magazine called “Yes, I Suck: Self-Help Through Negative Thinking.” In the article, Cloud lays out the research why “cognitive restructuring,” the process of retraining your thoughts–of changing self-defeating attitudes to constructive ones–simply doesn’t work.
Actually, it’s worse than that.
Sometimes when we tell ourselves statements that we [...]

USC law professor Elyn Saks is one of the recipients this year of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grants” of $500,000 — no strings attached. You may remember her as the author of the book, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, her story of living with schizophrenia which was published in 2007. She’s led [...]

An article in the Boston Globe yesterday demonstrated how social networks like Facebook can “leak” privacy.
Devising a simple algorithm, two MIT students came up with a method for analyzing a person’s network on the social networking website Facebook. They discovered that they could fairly reliably determine whether a man was gay or not by the [...]

Carl Jung is a fascinating character in psychology’s history.
Mentored by Freud himself, Jung broke off from Freud to found his own theory of human behavior, nowadays generally referred to as Jungian psychology. The Jungian theories place more emphasis on the spiritual side of our inner psyche, and the belief that all of humanity shares [...]

Recently I had the honor of interviewing Owen Stanley Surman, M.D., a practicing hospital psychiatrist known internationally for his work on psychiatric and ethical aspects of solid organ transplantation. Following the death of his wife, Dr. Surman devoted six years to writer a memoir, “The Wrong Side of an Illness: A Doctor’s Love Story,” which [...]

I’m pleased to announce the introduction of a new Psych Central blog, Healing Together for Couples. This blog will explore helping couples in a committed relationship learn how to heal from their hurts and past trauma, and is based in part on the book, Healing Together, by Suzanne Phillips and Dianne Kane.
Suzanne B. Phillips, Psy.D., [...]