Some of this was projection. “We love an avatar more than a specific being,” Pettman writes, “a gestalt abstraction, lifted from all the love stories we’ve imbibed since childhood.” I wanted this guy ...

Why do so many young people have mental-health problems? The growing focus on students’ anxiety and depression, while well-intentioned, may be making psychological distress seem inevitable. Instead of ...

Today, in a cabinet meeting, U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed that there is a link between autism and circumcision. “There’s two studies that show children ...

Dylan Selterman, a scientist who works as an associate teaching professor at the Johns Hopkins University department of psychological and brain sciences, and studies dreams, said there was no ...