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A day in the Sierra Nevada with Tommy Caldwell reveals how pain, trauma, and “elective hardship” became the foundation of his fortitude.
By better understanding how the brain constructs pain, we may transform how we treat chronic suffering.
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
After the trauma of a high-risk medical procedure, Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives not in thought — but in presence.
Want to know how to handle work-life pressure? Big Think asked Warfare co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Listen, set boundaries, and point them where to go.
"I am free. It's a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket." - Edith Eva Eger
"Upon emergence, these patients are sincerely unsure what was reality and what was a ‘dream.'"
Is a repressed memory always so bad?
Sometimes you just want to hear, "I know what it's like."
When does "oversharing" become an issue?
Here's the thorny reality behind psychedelics' ability to unearth buried memories.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.
Adrie Kusserow, an anthropologist and scholar of Buddhism, shares how her study of the religion and its history has reshaped her view of the world — and herself.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
Parents will sometimes use children as weapons in their relationship battles — and the fallout can be devastating.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
Scientific evidence does not support the use of trigger warnings, which are described as a "disingenuous gesture of trauma awareness."
Grief never ends. There is no closure, but there are things we can do to mitigate the feeling of loss.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
In the ongoing battle against PTSD, a potential new weapon emerges: a nasal spray loaded with neuropeptide Y.
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
About 2.5% of women and 2.2% of men in the U.S. meet the criteria for body dysmorphic disorder.
Here are the signs that you inherited “money anxiety” from your parents.
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