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  How did Gabe and Lisa go from being spouses to divorcees to best friends? Do they hold any residual anger toward each other? Hurt feelings? Secret attraction? How do... The post Podcast: From Divorce to Besties first appeared on World of Psychology.

Chronic loneliness is on the rise. But how can this be when we’re more connected now than ever? In today’s show, Dr. J.W. Freiberg, a social psychologist-turned-lawyer, explains that loneliness... The post Podcast: Loneliness and Litigation: A Lawyer's Case Study first appeared on World of Psychology.

Schizophrenia has been around since the dawn of time but actually treating it has only been around the past 100 years. In this episode host and schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers... The post Inside Schizophrenia: Evolution of Schizophrenia Treatments first appeared on World of Psychology.

“My average UCLA student who’s been successful wrote at least six complete, polished screenplays before finally selling one.”
~William Froug (Twilight Zone, tv show) “I wrote maybe 10 screenplays before I was able to sell one.”
~Nicolas Kazan (At Close Range) “We wrote six scripts before

Self-awareness is a necessary part of healing. Without awareness, we’d live a life perpetuating the patterns that can work against us in various ways emotionally, relationally, behaviorally, or otherwise. Being able to reflect on ourselves emotionally,...

Facing unknowns is very difficult. Facing an ever growing list of unknowns ups the challenge.  The most looming unknown is COVID-19. It is a matter of life and death. As we continue to face this pandemic we are hit with the news of over 207,000 deaths,...

The term “imposter syndrome” was coined by psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978 to describe an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent,...

Do you feel that you are able to change ingrained patterns of behavior that you have had for a long time? If not, you’re not alone! Most people feel that behaviors (as well as thoughts) are difficult to change....

Everyone talks about having a hard time trusting another person after a betrayal and so few discuss how difficult it is to trust ourselves as a result. We focus on what the other person did to us and try to find ways to

After 10 years & about 1,322 Mental Health Humor Cartoon posts for Psych Central…experiencing some brain freeze?…normal!:) Thank You Dear Readers &...

To truly understand why women do not leave, the reasons are better understood in light of seeing first and foremost the human reasons, as human beings, women have hardwired emotion-drives to matter and create meaningful connections to self and others,...

  This will be my last blog post for PsychCentral website. It has been a great journey to have the Practical Psychoanalysis Blog here and I am saddened to say that it will no

NBC Nightly News featured Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler—the first Black female physician in the United States....

You have ADHD? Me too. I’m a writer, so my default is to write about it. And so I have, right here at Psych Central, three times a week for nine years now....

Today I love my new life now that I do not have to create new blog posts for one place any more, at least not for the next little while,...