How to Stay in Love: Advice for Couples Getting Married
Last month at my nephew’s wedding, a simple card at my place setting asked for advice and wishes. Here’s what I know about staying in love.
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It’s Not the Job, It’s the Boss
The supervisor relationship matters more than most workplace factors and plays a critical role in employee satisfaction, stress levels, and retention.
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Autoimmunity and the Good Girls
I have studied my own health and the health of 1000 other autoimmune-diagnosed women: Self-abandoning “good girl” roles may be igniting a false-identity epidemic of autoimmunity.
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The Architecture of Healing: Neuroplastogens Explained
A new generation of compounds is being studied for its potential to support brain plasticity and adaptive change, potentially reshaping how mental health conditions are treated.
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Best-Practice Support After a Suicide
After a suicide, we often rush to deliver suicide prevention training with the best of intentions, but postvention may be more effective.
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Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity
“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.” “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation,” researcher Rosalind Cartwright reminded us in her fascinating treatise on the science of dreams. “The biggest lie of human memory is that…
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Meme-Brained: How Shallow Culture Creates Shallow Understanding
In a world of reaction images, doomscrolling, and “brain rot,” memes have become one of the primary ways we process reality. But when symbolic shortcuts replace deeper thinking, our understanding of the world can become shallow and reactive. Many of our online interactions center around sharing memes. Friends on social media, message boards, and group…
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Mark Sprevak and Francis Fallon: Intro to the Symposium
Representations are thought to be among the essential ingredients for explaining cognition. In cognitive psychology, behaviour and decision making are modelled in terms of computations performed over representations. In neuroscience, responses of single cells, neural populations, and structural features are claimed to function as representations for the agent in question. …
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Checking “Check Your Privilege”, Revisited
As a philosopher, I became familiar with the notion of the modern political concept of privilege as a graduate student. This occurred sometimes in classes and sometimes when I was lectured by other students about my privileges as a white man. Lest anyone think I was exploiting my privileges, the lectures were always about my…
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Success and Fulfillment: Why High Achievers Can Still Feel Unfulfilled
Success and fulfillment do not always arrive together. Learn why high achievers can feel unfulfilled and how to build steadier meaning. The post Success and Fulfillment: Why High Achievers Can Still Feel Unfulfilled appeared first on https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog.
