As the 2020 presidential election nears, this new blog will explore the intersection of politics, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis—and the mental health professions’ sometimes checkered past on these ...

Bloland's father, Erik Erikson (1902–1994), was internationally famous for his research on children's psychological development. When Bloland was growing up, she says, people were drawn to the ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

Erik Erikson was a German psychologist who theorized that there's a specific psychological struggle that takes place through the eight stages of a person's life. These struggles, he believed, ...