Study: Does psychological flexibility play a role in mitigating the negative effects of internalized ageism and fostering a sense of purpose in late life? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

2,000,000 US teens are on antidepressants/22% college students- despite little evidence they work well in this age group/much evidence serious side effects. Past time to stop overdosing kids. Potential long term sexual functioning harms summarized here: nytimes.com/2025/11/12/mag…

Study: "....nostalgia advances ritual engagement, contributing to a meaningful life." southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/Yin,%20J…

Study: "Attachment anxiety was associated with higher death anxiety (r = 0.27, 95% CI [0.18, 0.36]), with no significant moderators." tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

We are facing a crisis of disconnection and this is directly linked to polarization. New research finds that people living in communities with denser social networks consistently reported less partisan animosity and a greater sense of national unity--even with strangers.

Meta-analysis: "Logotherapy appears to be effective in reducing depressive symptoms compared to no treatment and other treatments." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Study: Existential nihilism increases risk of suicidal ideation (even when controlling for meaning in life and symptoms of depression) and helps to explain the link between relationship problems and suicidal ideation. tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

Review article: Sex differences become more pronounced "with improvements in living conditions, such as economy, gender equality, and education." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Gabriel Marcel on how our embodied self allows us to relate with others and participate in the world. kritike.org/journal/specia…

Article: "This paper argues that moments of accelerated scientific and technological development magnify the visibility of esoteric structures, demonstrating how the intellectual configurations of Renaissance learned circles persist in contemporary expert domains. In particular,

Article: Reading mindfulness practice through the lens of Heideggerian ontology journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

"I would say that learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he could not go to perdition, either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has learned rightly to be anxious has learned the most important thing." -- Soren

This article makes use of Irv Yalom's case studies to illustrate the role of conceptual metaphors in the construction of the "unconscious" in psychotherapy. journalspress.com/ejournal/ejour…

RIP Paul Ekman, one of the great pioneers of the science of affect.

“The social model of disability says that disability is created by the barriers in front of us—not by our bodies or our diagnoses.” — Stella Young

Study finds a high prevalence of existential anxieties related to the rapid advancements in AI. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Study: A logotherapy-based group program helps older adults who are low in self-esteem and in distress. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Article: An enactive approach to mental disorders views them not as isolated brain disorders, but rather as "developmental sensorimotor trajectories that are shaped by embodied interactions and social contexts." link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…