Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist (2024)

Discover how active listening, empathy, and embracing diverse perspectives can transform your workplace into a culture of respect, wellness, and genuine connection.

Our modern lifestyle causes us to lock our eyes more frequently on screens than on human faces, which has significant implications for developing our social skills.

Goal achievement and productivity aren't just about reaching the goal. It's also about celebrating the wins along the way. Many want to skip this step, resulting in burnout.

Like almost anything else, hope can be good or bad. When excessive, hope is addictive, leading to decisions that don't elicit desirable outcomes.

Want to transform your child's learning experience into a journey of joy and deep engagement? Here's how to do it by unlocking flow.

Want to know why you're addicted to this show? A co*cktail of neurotransmitters is to blame.

Being highly motivated to get things done can be richly challenging and energizing or disheartening and physically and mentally exhausting. This is what makes the difference.

Missing your loved one this Father's Day? Here are some unexpected ways loss can shape your life.

New research finds that patients with Long COVID brain fog or cognitive impairment have the biological signature of acute COVID-19 infection in their brain.

Consider these 10 tips to embrace true well-being, positivity, and joy this summer.

Have we gone too far to the social, political, and legal extremes? Recent science on left-wing authoritarianism may hold some answers.

"Citing up" likely stems from implicit bias toward what researchers are familiar with as established and credible, and new research may be more forgettable unless impactful.

Stalking victims are sometimes blamed for "encouraging" their stalker or asked what they did to "lead them on." But research finds that most stalkers need little to no encouragement.

Your first sexual experience may be long past, but it could still affect you.

Many Western nations are becoming increasingly unhappy. It's time to define happiness in a way that is sustainable.

Personal Perspective: For more than six decades, the poet Rumi has inspired me psychologically, spiritually, and transformatively. Here is why we need his timeless poetry now.

Understanding the "as-if" personality and the conundrum of being real.

Michelle Slater's 'Soulmate Dog' combines science, philosophy, riveting stories and unbounded care into a heartfelt examination of the nature of love and the inevitability of loss.

What we have lost or gained in the shift in therapeutic terminology?

Adult children don't always like or appreciate each other. Blood ties and a common history aren't always enough to maintain a connection.

It's important to take your time to deal with rejection and cultivate practices conducive to your healing and well-being. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

Personal Perspective: Parents and neurodivergent kids who need accommodations in K-12 schools carry an immense invisible burden.

Serial killer Herb Baumeister killed himself before cops could interrogate him; learning more about killers with suicidal tendencies might help cops to thwart them.

Learning how our brains train us to focus on the negative will help you understand how to hack this tendency and feel better in your relationship.

A Personal Perspective: Is Trump a cult figure? A look at the evidence.

There is a temperature at which your mind does its best work.

Here are five myths and truths on the fight-flight-freeze response.

A colleague recently asked me, “How can I get the CEO to talk with me?” This question remains at the top of executives' minds across industries and roles.

Learn these strategies for laying a solid foundation in a romance.