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Psychotic and manic depressive disorders can not only disrupt the life of the person suffering with one of these illnesses, but the lives of family and friends as well.

Discover the emerging field of ecopsychology, at a presentation on Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Jesup Memorial Library.

My husband and I were having dinner with friends from out of state the other night.

Few things are more certain to personality psychologists than the idea that habits are hard to break.

This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.

Oran Hesterman, president and chief executive officer of Fair Food Network, was the commencement speaker.

Military service personnel who suffer at least two mild traumatic brain injuries are far more likely to commit suicide or have suicidal thoughts than those who have one or fewer such injuries, according to research published online Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry .

You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours, after all. They define who you are and where you came from, your accomplishments and failures, your likes and dislikes.

It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen.

All hands were on deck to stage Stephen Sondheim's big Jungian beast of a fairy tale -- director of technical Theatre Jon Reeves, vocal director James Turner, orchestra director Thomas Evans, choreographer Kate Elizabeth-Leishman Yancho, a student cast of 26 and many others helped brought it to life.

The Nalanda Institute announced that enrollment is now open for their inaugural Certificate Program in Contemplative Psychotherapy to begin in Fall 2013.

Dr. John D. Damon is the CEO of Mississippi Children's Home Services in Jackson.

Dear Patti, My daughter, Hannah, had acute asthma as a toddler and was rushed to the hospital numerous times.

University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne has joined an Auckland-based collaborative grouping of scientists and clinicians focused on discovering the healthiest start to life for New Zealand's children.

In the early 1970s, psychologist David Rosenhan set out to answer a simple question: Can psychiatrists tell the sane from the insane? Rosenhan and seven other perfectly rational "pseudopatients" went to a dozen U.S. hospitals complaining that they were hearing voices.

Laura Martin McCord of Rome earned her doctorate in clinical psychology with a forensic concentration from the Florida Institute of Technology.

The Good Idea Fund and Drexel's Active Minds hosted an event May 13 for the first day of Mental Health Awareness Week with Tamar Chansky, a psychologist focused on anxiety disorders, who gave a lecture titled "Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: How to Not Let Stress Freak You Out or Worry Fake You Out of Doing What You Want." Throughout her ... (more)

Since Action News aired amateur video this week purported to show a brutal beating of Aria Jewitt at the hands of another female Oceanway Middle School student, our newsroom has been getting inundated with parents contacting us with personal stories of their children getting bullied at school.

EditorI wish to lend gentle counseling to the ignorant musings of Richard Feit and his thoughts on psychology.

Adults with epilepsy are more likely to have a greater number of characteristics of autism and Asperger syndrome, according to new research by the University of Bath, England.