The Biggest Problem With Parenting Advice
Parenting advice tends to encourage parents to take too much or too little control. How can parents find their balance amidst these contradictory messages?
View ArticleBeing in The Midst of Life
The holidays highlight our difficulty in truly engaging with others.
View ArticlePraising Kids for Unimpressive Accomplishments
Overvaluing your kids accomplishments may result in self-centeredness and low achievement.
View ArticleTeenagers Are From Earth
Our black-and-white thinking about adolescence is getting in our way.
View ArticleThe Rocky Transition to Parenthood
Unrealistic expectations fuel our difficulties in the early days of parenthood.
View ArticleVenting Your Feelings Isn't Enough
Research suggests that venting might make you angrier, but a process called pendulation might actually decrease angry feelings.
View ArticleShould We Talk About Religion in Therapy?
Although therapists recognize the importance of talking about religion, they're still uncomfortable inviting spirituality into the room.
View ArticleDark Thoughts Could be a Sign of Healthy Functioning
Healthier people can tolerate more subjective distress.
View ArticleHow to Fight Better
Recent research suggests that how you start a fight is more important than how you end it.
View ArticleUnspeakable Grief
Losing someone we love can call into question our very sense of purpose and value and meaning.
View ArticleForgiving Your Partner Is as Good for You as It Is for Them
New research suggests that withholding forgiveness may be self-destructive.
View ArticleReinventing Yourself
Rather than planning to change specific behaviors this new year, you might aim to change the rigid ways you think about yourself.
View ArticleWhy Some Breakups Are More Painful Than Others
Research suggests that maintaining a fluid self-concept, retaining a sense of separateness, and externalizing rejection may mitigate the devastating effects of breaking up.
View ArticleShould We Hide Our Feelings from Our Kids?
Research suggests that suppressing negative emotions, as well as exaggerating positive feelings, can have a negative impact on our relationships with our kids.
View ArticleOur Children's Unique Power to Make Us Suffer
Even when they become adults, it's difficult to maintain emotional boundaries with our kids.
View ArticleBridging Relationship Distress
Is it possible to cut each other free from the conflict?
View ArticleWhy Does Therapy Work?
If psychotherapy's not about venting or life coaching, what makes it work?
View ArticleAddicted to Love
Brain research suggests that early love can function like a destructive addiction, but it's benefit must be balanced against its threat.
View ArticleThe Problem with Time-Outs
New research shows that time-outs may actually dysregulate children and negatively impact their brains. Is it time to abandon this practice?
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