Behind a ballerina’s beautiful performance lie hours of discipline, tenderness and an abiding attention to detail ...

grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and after living elsewhere for a time, went back home. A novice genealogist, she has a particular interest in discovering the stories that have vanished from the family ...

Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence ...

The muscle metaphor based on ego-depletion theory hasn’t survived scrutiny. But there’s an alternative that holds promise ...

is an artist, writer and mudlark who has spent years discovering objects from centuries past in London’s River Thames.

When strangers ask about my disability, why I move around with crutches and a wheelchair, I tell them I used to be a pole ...

In a heated argument, it’s easy to say things you’ll later regret. With practice, you can learn to disagree more productively ...

Steve Schwartzberg’s journey from Harvard psychologist to erotic healer, Buddhist and teacher was always haunted by death. Then he was diagnosed with terminal cancer At 25, I saw my grandfather’s ...

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein is the senior managing editor of SAPIENS magazine. Her writing has appeared in Al-Jazeera, CNN, The World and The Poetry Foundation, among others. She lives in Skokie, a ...

In 1997, the psychologists Elaine and Arthur Aron identified a group of people who displayed unusually high levels of sensory sensitivity. These individuals described being troubled by noise, smells ...

Filmed for the BBC series Face to Face in 1959, this archival interview features Carl Jung surveying his life and extraordinarily influential career at the age of 84, just two years before his death.

In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from ...