"There Are No Bad Trips" Is a Lie
How the gospel of surrender can make real harm harder to see
The Medicine Really Is Inside You
But not the way you think
About That Trip to the Dentist
What a Wall Street Journal health story can teach us about science, business, and believing too soon
The Long March from Freud's Couch to Everyone's Inner Child
You are made of discontinued psychology
What's Wrong with Wanting to be Happy?
A case for better targets
The Curious Case of ... Dopamine & Wanting vs Liking
In the summer of 1954, in a laboratory at McGill University, a young researcher named James Olds lowered a fine wire into the brain of a rat and missed.
Is This a Blue Zone Thing?
The hardest discipline is refusing to build on stories we would most love to be true
The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living
—Socrates, 399 BCE (brought to you by SoulCycle™)
What the No Is Protecting
"I don't do drugs" is a complete answer. It is also, sometimes, a locked door with something behind it.
The Half-Life of Insight
A breakthrough and a misplaced verdict
You Didn't Fail Treatment. Treatment Failed You.
Two decades of treatment, aimed at the wrong layer
When Science Meets the Sacred: Bureaucracy vs. Healing
Two rejection letters from a world that wants 3,000 years of healing reduced to one molecule, one receptor, and one placebo jaguar.