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We are never alone. From our first connections with other human beings, we start filling ourselves with them, melding not only their...

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank...

Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...

One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of...

The life of Russian psychologist Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) began in emotional and physical abuse, and ended with the murder of herself...

In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...

The year is 1990 and a man is sitting across from a monkey. Between them is an object that will, in mere moments, become the Raisin Heard...

Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...

The brain can be its own worst enemy. In a host of those diseases, the merest whisper of which is enough to send a streak of black dread...

Many Hopes Lie Buried Here. These words, etched on the tomb of Inez Prosser (~1895-1934) express an entire constellation of grief and...

Bees know what they’re doing. When they set out to build a hive, and have to decide what structure to use for the stashing of their...

We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...

After a life spent studying our closest relatives, and arguing passionately for their protection and that of the wider planet of which...

Forgetting is the horrible, beautiful necessity that keeps the past from swallowing the present but that, given too free a hand, picks...

When Eleanor Emmons left home to matriculate at Reed College in 1934, she had life pretty well figured out. Her family’s Theosophy gave...

Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time...

By 1910, the woman whose brilliance had forced the doors of Harvard University open to women (if only in an unofficial capacity) and who...

Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...

"Well Dale, we, the universe, hate to break it to you, but your desk is on fire, your copy of Thor 337 was lost in the mail, you've been...

You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been...