Want things to go well? Plan like a defensive pessimist

So often we underestimate the time and effort required to reach our goals. You can avoid that trap with realistic planning

by Julie K Norem

History and philosophy of mental health

For some with mental illness, it’s not always good to talk

Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence

by Dan Degerman

Visions and mysticism

I saw a ghost at 25. Now 52, I imagine myself as a ghost

by Kathleen Donohoe

Therapeutic relationships

The questions we can’t ask our therapists, but are dying to

Directed by Josephine Sittenfeld

Maybe to haunt is to visit a city where you once lived, finding it both familiar and different, humming along just fine without you. It could be like visiting a museum where the ghost treads carefully around the exhibits. A sighting could be the dead tapping on the glass behind which the living live

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Kathleen Donohoe, novice genealogist who has a particular interest in discovering the stories that have vanished from the family narrative

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