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In 1991, a paper appeared in the Archives of General Psychology that held out the promise, at long last, of an effective treatment for...

We are never alone. From our first connections with other human beings, we start filling ourselves with them, melding not only their...

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank...

The life of Russian psychologist Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) began in emotional and physical abuse, and ended with the murder of herself...

In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...

Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...

We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...

When Eleanor Emmons left home to matriculate at Reed College in 1934, she had life pretty well figured out. Her family’s Theosophy gave...

Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time...

By 1910, the woman whose brilliance had forced the doors of Harvard University open to women (if only in an unofficial capacity) and who...

Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...

"Well Dale, we, the universe, hate to break it to you, but your desk is on fire, your copy of Thor 337 was lost in the mail, you've been...

Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...

Humans have been building structures out of ceramic brick for five thousand years, and for four thousand nine hundred of those years the...

Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...

We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...

To many, Virginia Satir was an instinctive therapeutic genius, whose invention of family therapy has instructed untold millions of...

Helene Deutsch (1884-1982) was a fantastically successful clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who felt guilty about nothing quite so...

What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...