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My girlfriend thinks I just play computer games a lot!
By Cary Tennis
June 13, 2008
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America is the most anxious country on the planet. So will I ever learn to live with my fear, racing heart and disaster scenarios?
By Meredith Maran
June 12, 2008
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He's being treated for depression, and it's making me crazy.
By Cary Tennis
May 7, 2008
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Will she be the next TV star animal trainer? She certainly had the right diagnosis for my cat Thompson, a biter.
By Kirsten Weir
March 19, 2008
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For years I have done my bit to listen, to pretend, to nod in agreement: But now I see this is all meaningless. There is nothing there!
By Cary Tennis
March 14, 2008
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We all seem convinced we're right about politics, religion or science these days. What makes us so sure of ourselves?
By Robert Burton
February 29, 2008
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Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
By Jerome Weeks
January 29, 2008
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Is it possible to be too aware of our own consciousness? A psychologist and a philosopher teamed up to document inner experience.
By Gary Wolf
January 11, 2008
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The documentary film "Unknown White Male," about a New York stockbroker who loses his memory, is medically implausible. But it offers an important lesson about an overlooked illness.
By Robert Burton
December 11, 2007
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Sean Taylor killing: A grief counselor talks about how teammates and fans can gain "control" after a senseless tragedy.
By King Kaufman
November 28, 2007
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I know we had a difficult childhood, and I'm over most of it, but when I see my sister I start to get a little crazy!
By Cary Tennis
October 15, 2007
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Our preeminent storytelling neuroscientist spotlights music's transformative effect on the brain. But has Sacks finally struck the wrong note?
By Kevin Berger
October 12, 2007
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At their annual convention, psychologists officially condemned some brutal interrogation techniques, but critics decry a resolution they say isn't stringent enough.
By Mark Benjamin
August 21, 2007
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What's with the reticence? Is she shining me on?
By Cary Tennis
August 16, 2007
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Study says that talking things through causes girls greater anxiety and sadness.
By Carol Lloyd
July 19, 2007
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In a series of open letters, psychologists spar over the question of what role their profession played in abuses at Guantánamo and elsewhere.
June 23, 2007
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Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
By Mark Benjamin
June 21, 2007
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Will people with schizoaffective disorder be lumped in with psychotic murderers?
By Cary Tennis
April 23, 2007
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I got shot down by the queen of the hipsters and now I want revenge.
By Cary Tennis
March 7, 2007
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I tease men into dominating me. Afterward I feel shame and anger.
By Cary Tennis
February 20, 2007
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Why did Ruby Rippey-Tourk confess her affair with the San Francisco mayor to her husband? What good would that do?
By Cary Tennis
February 9, 2007
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Brian Wansink, of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, dishes about food self-delusion, holiday dieting, and how it might be the size of your plate -- not pie -- that's responsible for your paunch.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 28, 2006
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Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin's wonderful new book explains why music is a critical step in human evolution and why the songs we loved as teens remain stuck on "play" in our heads.
By Farhad Manjoo
September 5, 2006
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Journalist Winifred Gallagher talks about the urge to nest, suburban sprawl, and whether George Washington owned the first McMansion.
By Sarah Goldstein
February 24, 2006
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The successful therapist is also caught practicing without a license -- but her patients don't really care.
By Lori Leibovich
January 27, 2006
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