Allen Frances is an American psychiatrist. He was chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina, and of th...

A theme emerged during sessions with several of my patients this week: the extent to which they had been impacted by the loss of Caroline Flack, who took her...

I was about to draw the blinds last week in case my posh neighbours saw me watching ITV’s annual summer ratings hit, when I saw that they too were watching i...

Despite reflecting on the good life for more than 2,500 years, philosophers have not had much to say about middle age. For me, approaching 40 was a time of s...

http://www.spielbergs.video/shrink Shrink is a short-form series created by Alex Karpovsky and Teddy Blanks in which smart, charismatic people who have been ...

Why you should listen Susan Cain is a former corporate lawyer and negotiations consultant -- and a self-described introvert. At least one-third of the people...

“I used to get so excited when the meth was all gone.” This is my friend Jeremy. “When you have it,” he says, “you have to keep using it. When it’s gone, it’...

Anxiety is an invalid excuse. I just got back to my room after a failed attempt to go to class. I’m sitting here, writing this, trying to think of something ...

What greater indictment of a system could there be than an epidemic of mental illness? Yet plagues of anxiety, stress, depression, social phobia, eating diso...

Sky series Billions has left viewers enthralled with its depiction of life at a top hedge fund – and in particular by the character of Wendy Rhoades, a perfo...

Danniella Westbrook opened up about her troubled and turbulent life on Channel 5 series In Therapy For the past 20 years, the EastEnders star has lived her l...

Susan Cain was an introverted child and suffered because of it. Now she wants to help young people reclaim the power of the quiet, thoughtful inner life If y...

Our style of attachment affects everything from our partner selection to how well our relationships progress to, sadly, how they end. That is why recognizing...

What is DIT? DIT is a time-limited (16 sessions) psychodynamic therapy that has been specifically developed for the treatment of depression. One of the main ...

Therapist Andrew G Marshall describes what relationship therapy can do for couples on the rocks and what to expect from your sessions

Patients are being shunned in the mistaken belief they have biological defects. In fact the evidence shows that most have endured traumas

Divorcing mental ill health from its social and political context, as the BBC’s recent In the Mind Series did, implies wider issues of inequality or poverty ...

Telling boys that they “cry like a girl” can be harmful to their mental health in later life because it means they lose touch with their feelings, according ...

Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its suprema...