therapy
This Young Indian Started a Mental Health Cafe To Bust Stigmas Around It
Cheekily named Your Sugar Daddy, the cafe encourages therapy, counselling and even playing with puppies. Lots of puppies.
10 Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Ask a Dog Behaviourist
Vlad Vancia counsels owners just as much as the dogs themselves.
Australian Therapists to Be Given Psilocybin to Better Understand Their Patients
For the first time, researchers have been given ethics approval to study whether the psychedelic can be used to treat a primary anxiety disorder.
The Philosopher Will See You Now
Some philosophical counselors offer useful help with problems of living; others aren’t sure mental illness is real. What will their field become?
Where to Start When You're Thinking of Getting Therapy
Therapy has been a part of Megan Barton-Hanson's routine on and off for years. Here's her advice for anyone thinking about giving it a go.
I Was Hypnotised Into a Different Lifetime on a Group Video Call
I went in armed with cynicism and expectations of an immersive lucid dream. What I saw was way weirder.
How A New Therapy Helps People with Delusions Feel Safe Again
"I don’t have to worry any more about people potentially attacking me. That’s all floated away.”
How I Learned to Date Without Drinking
"Some guys I went out with reacted weirdly when I told them I wasn’t drinking. One date ended the moment I ordered a non-alcoholic beer."
A Photographer and a Burn Survivor Find Beauty in Scars
Photographer Clément Marion and writer Clélia Lebreton hope to help burn survivors feel more comfortable in their own skin through their book“Brûlés.”
I Learned How to Cope with Agoraphobia. The Pandemic Eroded It All
As the country reopens for “Hot Vax Summer,” I’ve had to face the crippling fears I avoided for more than a year.
Bill Cosby Would Rather Stay in Prison Than Go to Therapy
Continuing the long tradition of men offering to do anything else—anything at all!—rather than just go to therapy.
This Is How I Manage ‘Severe PMS’ That Makes Me Wanna Die
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is the understudied evil twin of PMS, and it drives 15 percent of its sufferers to attempt suicide.