We can choose to think flexibly and adaptively, rather than rigidly and maladaptively, by redefining painful life blows as opportunities to evolve. Suffering is the "rock-tumbler" of life, within which the nuggets of our battered selves get polished into our highest and best selves.

Bipolar disorder is a life-long mood illness, often with the first onset during late adolescence or early adulthood. An essential element of bipolar disorder is that the individual has had at least one episode of "mania."

We lack a clear, relevant description of what psychological health is, in today's world; and, how you can build it. What does a psychologically healthy life looks like, today?

In contrast to discussion about mental disorders, I think we've neglected its flip side: What constitutes psychological health in today's world?

We Americans often pride ourselves on not being ritualistic. However, as anyone with even partly open eyes saw this past fourth Thursday in November, we are intensely ritualistic.

Learning from the consequences of your past helps you restart and self-direct your life, whether in your relationships or any other part of your life.

It's important to find pathways for maintaining psychological health and resilience during these times -- through what I call the "Inside-Out" life.

You need a therapist who is willing to tell you that you are full of it. Otherwise, the game keeps going around and around and the patient keeps going in circles.

In my previous post I wrote that "forgetting yourself" is a key pathway to psychological health. Here, I describe some ways to do that in three important realms of your life: your work, your personal relationships and your life "footprint."

The irony is that a self-absorbed person is much less able to handle today's flood of life dilemmas and challenges in positive, creative, solution-oriented ways.

Society's attitude towards marriage is changing. The marriage rate has dropped by 37% in four decades, and 50% of marriages end in divorce. What's the best way to understand these shifts?

Which of you is so attached to your ideas of how the world should be that you'd test your favorite socio-economic hypothesis on a pool of three hundred million not necessarily willing subjects?

Michelangelo had the eyes of an artist, able to see an angel where others saw only stone. We want to see compassionate, blissful awareness where others see only flesh and blood.

A human body and mind living without knowledge of the perfection they carry within can easily become out of balance: needs become obsessions, wants becomes addictions.