During the Soviet Union era, therapy was often used as a tool of political oppression. Since then, Russia has seen major reforms in mental health care -- but stigmas and distrust for the practice still live on. Psychologist and TED...

There's no question that a dog tilting its head is one of the cutest things possible, but why do they do it?

Professionally diagnosing narcissistic personality disorder is difficult for psychologists, partially because anyone who might have it just thinks they’re great!

One of the internet's favorite pastimes is arguing, but very few of those arguments ever actually go anywhere. It can be frustrating to watch, but scientists have some ideas on why things play out the way they do.

You may have noticed that checkout lines often have whozits and whatzits galore, but your opinion of them mostly depends on how a couple different regions of your brain work.

Even if you like your job, it’s not unusual to feel "burnout." But the idea of what that means has evolved over time.

You might love your good, sweet pupper, but can you ever truly be sure if they love you back?

With hard work and perseverance, we can change the way we process the world, and if you’ve learned how to read, you’ve successfully re-trained an entire area of your brain!

The Enneagram, like many personality tests, isn't well backed-up by scientific research, but its popularity in spite of that can give us a window into how the human mind works.

What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands...

You've probably seen the pyramidal diagram of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It's straightforward enough but, it might be a bit too subjective to really measure human needs.

You might have a roommate who rolls their eyes a lot and leaves sassy sticky notes all over the place, but no matter how frustrating it is, it’s probably not a personality disorder.

Howcast - Learn the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist from psychiatrist Ankur Saraiya in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Don't run from your emotions -- learn to embrace them by letting them all out and letting them go.

Howcast -Obsessive skin-picking to the point of self-mutilation has a name: dermatillomania. If you suffer from a compulsion to pick at your skin, you are not alone, and treatment is available.

Howcast -If excessive skin picking is a problem and you find you cannot stop, get help before it gets worse.

Danielle Sheypuk is a New York City-based licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the problems of dating, relationships and sexuality among the disabled. She is also the first ever wheelchair runway model at New York...

Meet the grown-up designer babies created by Robert Graham's Genius Sperm Bank in 1970s America. Were any geniuses? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Germinal choice was introduced by millionaire Robert Graham. Children born of...

The idea of Emotional Intelligence (EI) - or, sometimes called, Emotional Quotient (EQ) has been around for a while now. It's an important one for all professionals and communicators to get to grips with. So, what is Emotional Intelligence?

Today’s video answers the question: what triggers the mood swings that you can see and borderline personality disorder?
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One of the features of borderline personality disorder that make it look like bipolar...

Alexa teaches you how to pronounce PSY, PSO & PSEU in French.

I really love being a therapist, but whenever I get asked how I decided to become one, my answer always seems to change. I think that’s because my path was not as clear-cut and straightforward as I would like to believe. Anyway, check...

If you or someone you know has been in therapy before, there's a deceent chance that you have a story about a "bad therapist". But how can you tell? And what can you do about it? Therapy is a complex process that combines the...

Mental health is extremely important. So why don't we take care of it that much? Excellent question! The world of therapy and counseling can seem scary. Most people have never been to some form of mental health counseling. Therapists can...