The Need to Grieve
Few experiences are so certain or so painful as bereavement. With this fact in mind, the neuroscientist and…
Are You Highly Sensitive? – Traits of Highly Sensitive People
If you are one of those people who jumps when a police siren wails or who cannot watch…
Are You Dating a Narcissist?
Do you sense that friends and family dislike your new partner? Maybe they have made little comments about…
The Different Personality Types
Psychologists are often suspicious of attempts to group people according to types. Human beings, they argue, are simply…
The Psychological Defense Mechanisms
The defense mechanisms are used in order to escape unpleasant emotional or psychological states. For example, a middle-aged…
Being Your Own Person
Throughout their lives people are constantly being told to “just be yourself.” Anyone who has ever set off…
The Mystery of Consciousness
“Consciousness,” writes the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, “is just about the last surviving mystery.” Many people find such…
What Is Adulthood? – How to Be a Mature Adult
Think back to your teens. You probably assumed that your fear, confusion, and sense of vulnerability would disappear…
The Traits Successful People Have in Common
Observing the dreadful poverty of the 1930s Depression, George Orwell wrote that it seemed to him as if…
