In science fiction automated medical services are common. One example is the autodoc—an autonomous robotic pod that treats the patient within its confines. Medbots, as distinct from the autodoc, are robots that do not enclose the patient, but do their work in a way like a traditional doctor or medic. There are also non-robotic options…
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.” “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it…
My current project is tentatively titled, The Lives We Didn’t Live: The Psychology of Regret. I’m looking for personal accounts on regret. Specifically, tell me if you have any regrets and what your biggest regrets are. Copy and paste the following into the body of your message to guide your answers. No personal identifiers will…
Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from that motive force, the majority of our epoch’s cultural production aiming to render the market maximally known — its profitably proven preferences, its self-interests, its moral fashions…
Break the cycle of stage fright by healing the “critical parent” within through honest, systematic self-analysis.
What is it like to have a toxic friend? Recent research reveals three main emotional experiences.
Yes, gaslighting is real—a really manipulative tactic deployed to warp your reality. Protect yourself by learning to recognize these 10 gaslighting behaviors.
Scientist Oskar Fischer made major contributions to Alzheimer’s disease research, but antisemitism led to his marginalization and tragic murder.
In recent decades, critics have questioned psychotherapy’s effectiveness and broad reach, as well as the proliferating array of available treatments. Has the field gone astray?
