In the spiritual vocabulary of Elizabeth Gilbert, to bow down is to get on the floor, submit to your feelings of helplessness and let God take the wheel. In her new memoir, All the Way to the River, ...

One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying ...

Imagine that you can be two different people. That's not such an absurd idea. It's been around in psychoanalysis (starting with Freud) for over a century, and even contemporary cognitive science and ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...