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September 7, 2017

How to Change Minds

Reasoning Will Get You Nowhere

The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. When it comes to truly changing minds, reasoning will get you nowhere. Read More

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July 12, 2017

Back to Bedlam?

America’s Neglect of Its Mentally Ill

America continues to turn its back on the mentally ill. Read More

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May 1, 2017

When the System Fails

Tales of the Wrongfully Convicted

The waking-nightmare stories of people wrongfully imprisoned, often for decades, for crimes they didn’t commit expose the flaws in our criminal justice system. Read More

Viktor Frankl's Classic Has Just Been Released for Young Adults!

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April 10, 2017

Viktor Frankl's Classic Has Just Been Released for Young Adults!

A YA Edition Brings "Man's Search for Meaning" to a New Generation

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl is best known for is his extraordinary first-person narrative about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, as told in Man’s Search for Meaning. Now, his classic work will be published for the first time in a young adult and classroom-ready edition. Read More

Open Book, March/April 2017

Magazine Article - Open Book

March 13, 2017

Hearing Voices

Eavesdropping on Our Inner Conversations

The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves Making sense of the particular internal mix of words, conversation, music, and images that natter away at us nonstop. Read More

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November 3, 2016

When the Rules Change

Learning to Learn from Your Children

There’s a crucial point in the parenting life cycle that’s not often discussed in the literature. Read More

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August 30, 2016

Mistaken Identity?

A Daughter Reflects on Her Father's Decision to Change Gender

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Susan Faludi explores the story of how the despotic father who’d once ruled her terrified family underwent sex reassignment surgery late in life. Read More

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June 30, 2016

Have SSRIs Gotten a Bad Rep?

The Author of "Listening to Prozac" Thinks So

In his latest book, Peter Kramer argues that medications represent the best, most effective tool for fighting the bleakness of depression. Read More

Unraveling the Mind-Body Mystery

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May 9, 2016

Unraveling the Mind-Body Mystery

A Survey of the Latest Research

Therapists may be fascinated with harnessing the mind-body connection in their work, but what has science taught us about separating hype from solid evidence of its clinical efficacy? Read More

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March 8, 2016

Examining the Science of Torture

The Price of Coercive Interrogation

A startling new book exposes how much more the military’s embrace of enhanced interrogation tactics in the war on terror was influenced by Hollywood, rather than scientific evidence. Read More