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Behold a Baby, and Consider Heightened Sexual Conflict
A recent New York Times piece discussed the most common Internet searches associated with pregnancy in 20 countries. In almost every one of these countries—from India to South Africa to the U.S. to...
View ArticleExplaining Anxiety to Others: Keep Both Hands On The Wheel
Before I was open about living with panic disorder, I didn't tell anyone in my life about how I felt when I experienced anxiety. I was afraid that my intense feelings and bodily sensations would scare...
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Writing Wrongs: Writing About Trauma Leads to Better Endings
(Co-written with Lee Daniel Kravetz, writer and journalist)Though Oxford Dictionaries and countless media outlets dubbed 2013 “the year of the selfie,” the idea of putting yourself out there is nothing...
View ArticleDo You Know Why You're Angry? Part 2
Why does our relationship with anger shift so dramatically later in life?As children, we found anger was something that made everybody uneasy. Parents and teachers repeatedly tried to train us not to...
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Little Criminals: Treatment Scarce for Youth Sex Offenders
Residents of Christie Pits neighbourhood in Toronto, Canada, were left in disbelief last year following a series of sexual assaults by a 15-year-old boy (identity withheld as per Canada’s Youth...
View ArticleThe Secret To Bringing Out Your Best
Who are you trying to please? Who rewards and punishes you? Whose scorn tinges you with chagrin? Whose praise swells your pride? I ask because I believe in a simple predictive rule: We grow toward...
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Pre-crastination: What Is It, You Ask?
Is pre-crastination, like its namesake, “procrastination,” another example of suboptimal, some might say, self-defeating, choice? In a recent series of studies, researchers posed a simple question:...
View ArticleLess Research Is Needed in This Area
Goodnesses have been thanked. Sighful reliefs have been heaved. Guardian angels have doubtless been waving away gratitude with modest waves of their heavenly wings.Phew. Exam season is over.Students...
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Successful Dating Following the "Rules" of the Wild
We often here about the human do’s and don’ts when it comes to dating, but we rarely get a glimpse into the rules animals use when it comes to courtship and mating. My new book “Wild Connection: What...
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On the Importance of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales, of course, have been with us for a long time. Some of the earliest were written in a Neapolitan dialect by Giambattista Basile in Italy the early seventeenth century: Lo cunto de li cunti...
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How to Tame Your Inner Godzilla
There are those moments when enough is enough. Either your stress has been accumulating and one incident tips you over the edge or you have no more patience for a particular person or situation. Your...
View ArticleRage and the Problem of Male Sexual Privilege
“Rage” is the very first word of the oldest and one of the most influential stories in all of Western literature: Homer’s Iliad, composed nearly three thousand years ago. The Iliad and its sequel, the...
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Have I Ever Had a Mystical Experience?
I am sitting on the beach with my wife. It is warm but there is no humidity. A breeze blows steadily. The sand is coarse. The beach runs over a lip and down to the surf. The waves are rough as the tide...
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Anna Freud’s Astounding Story
Science journalist Rebecca Coffey’s just published novel, Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story, is a fact-based, fictionalized exploration of the complicated and loving relationship between Sigmund Freud and...
View ArticleThe "listening cure:" The past influences the present
In the June 9/16, 2014, issue of The New Yorker, two letter writers argue, in a section called, "Fear and Remembering," that many modern neuro-cognitive concepts and therapeutic techniques are...
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Continuous, Spontaneous Orgasms Throughout The Day
By Amy Broadway, researcher at the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory ResearchIt might seem like having continuous, spontaneous orgasms throughout the day would be fun, but to those with persistant genital...
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New Evidence that Sleep Facilitates Learning and Memory
A new study reported in the journal Science on June 6, 2014 is groundbreaking in filling in some missing information about how sleep affects learning, memory, and performance. Over the last few...
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On Racism
Racism is perhaps one of the most difficult things to write about. We can write about sex or money more easily. Very few works of art have successfully tackled this subject without sentimentality or...
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Your Car and Your Health
Jenny’s Corvette is 25 years old, in cherry condition. This week the engine was making a throaty rattle so she took it in for repair. When she met with the service advisor, she was in a rush, so just...
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Single in the UK, Post Bridget Jones
[Bella’s intro: Happily, I recently discovered UK singles blogger and author Paula Coston. Reading her work is what clued me into a report about the rise of singles in the UK and that inspired my...
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