To some, the idea of leaving a religion can seem as innocuous as cancelling a gym membership. However, for many who have left a faith tradition, the reality is much more complicated. As a psychologist ...

The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude ...

Infused with humour and nostalgia, a one-man show confronts the communal trauma of his parish in working-class Philadelphia ...

With stigma and misunderstanding surrounding mental health, it’s vital to know the benefits and limits of a formal diagnosis Just as nearly everyone experiences physical health problems such as ...

For someone experiencing a panic attack, fear can become an all-consuming feedback loop, with a fit of anxiety quickly careening into a fear that they might lose control and faint, or even die. In ...

How do you move through the world? With a plan and destination in mind, headphones or a car stereo drowning out the world, perhaps? In this short film, the filmmaker Mykhailo Bogdanov makes a ...

Most of us look outside ourselves for relief from life’s big and small stresses. If you sometimes reach for alcohol to manage anger, go online to shop for things you do not need in order to tackle ...

Today’s world is fuelling a craving to be truly seen by another – and that’s exactly what AI therapists can’t ever deliver ...

Towards the end of every year, many parents find themselves fielding difficult questions, such as: how does a man fly across the entire world in a single night to deliver presents? How does he fit ...

When Megan Davies was around 11 years old, family dinners became acutely torturous. It was the sounds her parents and six siblings were making: the chewing, slurping, smacking noises that accompany an ...

For a moment I thought I’d misheard him. The same clinical psychologist who’d given me that diagnosis a few years earlier was ...

Built into a massive sinkhole in northern Puerto Rico and completed in 1963, the Arecibo Telescope was first conceived as a tool to study Earth’s upper atmosphere, and funded by the US government in ...