People Who Hoard Animals in Psychiatric Times is one of scant few in-depth looks at the mental health issues behind animal hoarding. Once known as animal collecting and commonly stereotyped as the "crazy cat ...

A few days ago, the headlines blared something akin to this Washington Post article: Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two decades ago, and a sharply growing number of people say ...

Are people really born gay? To what degree can we 'choose' our sexuality? Research that's been carried out into the biological basis of sexuality recently hit the headlines. What role does hormone exposure in the ...

There is no greater obstacle to people receiving treatment for psychological problems than the stigma associated with it. Embarrassment, feelings of failure, and individualism are all pieces related to the greater socio-cultural stigma that relegates ...

Will mentioned earlier in this blog that he's always on the lookout for famous people coping with mental disorders. They can be inspirational - but in some cases, negatively so. "Thinspiration" images used in eating ...

I'm always on the lookout for famous people that disclose they have some sort of mental disorder in hopes that this person can become a model of success for others struggling with the condition. Recently, ...

An AFP story on Yahoo! News has been getting big attention: Psychotherapy helps infertile 'superwomen'. Some researchers found that stress many be an issue with infertility, and that going for counseling for lifetyle stress ...

NPR had a great piece last week on the increase in structured activities and planned time for children (listen here). This generally is seen as a departure from days when children would have many ...

The June issue of the APA Monitor had a piece on the legislation in Hawaii trying to get prescription privileges for psychologists. In some states there are shortages of psychiatrists creating a deficit of ...

World Science reports Ego traps us in costly, losing battles, study finds. An advance review of an article in the July issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, egotism is defined here by psychologists ...

A story via Reuters reported on some new research that found a relationship between attachment style and risk for eating disorders. Essentially, folks with an insecure attachment style were more prone to low self-esteem ...

From the New York Times: In Diabetes, One More Burden for the Mentally Ill focuses on the link between increasing rates of diabetes (as high as 20%) in people with some mental illnesses following ...