From Evangelical camp kid to youth director, Dr. Laura Anderson recognized early on that something didn’t feel right. It wasn’t until her late 20s that she learned what she had gone through at the hands of her pastor was spiritual and psychological ab*se. She also discovered that her symptoms had…
Single or not, friendships offer so many benefits that can improve men’s lives. One 2011 study found that having a best friend during life’s toughest moments can make them more bearable, for example. And another paper published in 2017 in the journal Men and Masculinities found that “bromances”—to quote the…
Dr. Bowleg is a leading scholar of the application of intersectionality to social and behavioral sciences health research. She is a professor of Applied Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the George Washington University (GW) and a co-director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Core…
This is a question that I have been asked many many times in my life.Content warnings for the article: detailed ableism, COVID, ABA (applied behavior analysis), racism and racist phrases, eugenics, verbal and emotional abuse, transphobia, rambly, occasional caps, death“You’re too blunt”“Always go to her for the brutal honest truth”“You…
In the therapy room, licensed marriage and family therapist Moe Ari Brown has recently been in the business of definitions. A client might say “I have the worst relationship with my mother. She’s a total narcissist,” to which Brown would invite the client to elaborate on what the term “narcissist”…
This Juneteenth, Dr. Gordon reflects on the persistent mental health disparities experienced by Black Americans and what NIMH is doing to try to reach the goal of true mental health equity. “On Juneteenth, our nation commemorates a significant milestone in our history: June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas…
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