Didion's most famous essay was about my mother's murder trial, set in California's broken dream. It turned out to be right. Contributor: I thought Joan Didion's essay would ruin my life.

The role of GOTTFRIED BENN (l886-1956) in modern German literature has often been compared to that of T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound in our own culture.A doctor, who practiced in Berlin, he was from ...

DEAR ABBY: Eight years ago, my husband of 26 years had a stroke, and his personality changed. He was difficult to deal with, but, with time, his old personality came back, and things got better.

The initial results ChatGPT produced didn’t alarm me. They were well written and structured. There were none of the usual flaws one finds in student writing: Each sentence logically followed the ...

As my personality grew, so did my obsession with the word I’d heard used to describe it. “Sociopath.” Even as a teen I recognized some version of myself in its description.

I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was ...

The biggest shift in my mental health came after my parents and I learned the skill validation. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

I terminated transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) with my therapist, Dr. Lev, in December 2016. TFP treatment typically lasst one to three years. We met twice weekly for 11 years. It wasn’t ...

My response to this—what my new-parent eyes now see as an 8-out-of-10 day—was to chug half a bottle of wine and scream to my husband through sobs, “I hate everyone and everything!” ...

When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.