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Most people would agree that wanting exclusivity with your partner is fundamental to commitment, making jealousy a natural fear. New research shows three ways to keep it in bounds.

Modern psychiatry is adopting a biopsychosocial model that blends a humanistic approach with a systems-based model that promises better explanations for mental disorders.

For resilience and wellness programs to be effective, it may be necessary to integrate two powerful public health promotion strategies designed to foster personal power.

With each mass shooting the gun debate ignites again, in an endless circular dance. Some people see such horrific events as evidence in favor of new gun regulation. Others quickly head off attempts to act. Some think it odd that I, an allegedly liberal philosophy professor, am pro-gun. The psychological casual explanation for this is…

Should there be a right to food? Even if you haven’t thought about this question before, you probably find yourself instinctively leaning towards an answer. For some, it’s “of course”. Food is a necessity and given that we have all sorts of rights, surely food must be among them. For others, the suggestion sounds a…

Pressed between the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — a favorite book of my childhood, which my grandmother used to read to me and which still dwells in her immense library — is a single yellow leaf, its curved fan almost glowing against a faded illustration of the White Rabbit gazing anxiously at his…

“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.” “On how one orients himself to the moment,” 48-year-old Henry Miller (December 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) wrote in reflecting on the art…

Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent reckonings. In my nascent adventures in pottery, I have observed with great fascination how two different glazes, when combined, produce…

The Lindsay Clancy trial reveals more than a legal debate, it exposes how we judge motherhood, women’s mental health, and the boundaries of the “good mother.”

Weekend Wisdom: When I set a boundary, I’m not saying, “You can’t do that.” I’m saying, “This is what I will do when you do that.” All I ask for this time of year is a cool… The post 17 household habits to clear mental clutter + the nappuccino appeared first on Be More with…