Mental health is a serious issue among men that needs addressing.

Conscientiousness is the personality trait most associated with overall academic and career success.

It is normal to take off from work when functionality is impaired due to illness. Why do employers view things differently when it comes to depression?

What mindset should athletes have when they are injured? According to sports psychology, many athletes —at least in the short term— will have to pursue other meaningful purposes.

Creon embodies the tyrannical father Jungian archetype in Sophocles’ Antigone.

Mental health treatment often involves talk therapy, but some do not respond well to this form of treatment.

In Buddhism, Metta meditation guides us to intentionally bring about feelings of love and compassion, leading to positive changes in our experience.

Diotima is a character in Plato’s Symposium that inspired Socrates’ vision of the metaphysics of love.

When you set high expectations for yourself, prepare for others to set high expectations for you as well.

Existentialism played a role in the development of contemporary psychology, so psychologists could benefit from explicitly studying the essential texts of existentialism.

Mental health awareness is increasingly common and visual on social media, in workspaces, and in campuses. But optics can be deceiving.

Working from home alone has been shown to cause remote workers negative mental health symptoms. Here is how remote workers who work from home alone can cope with loneliness.

The Great Return entails the large-scale call from employers to return to the office. But research shows that the large-scale call from employers to return to the office will have an overall negative impact on the mental health of the working adult population.

Mental health and work are integrally related, and when work goes bad, workers’ mental health suffers. As of 2022, worker mental health is at an all-time low.

Human life is finite and we can therefore never live a ‘complete’ life, which is something that is supposedly required in order to be authentic. Authenticity in almost all of its plausible forms, is essentially an illusory ideal we will never live up to.

Personality traits are an important guide for managers and employers in the workplace, not so much for hiring or narrowing candidates for employment, but for making accommodations for existing and future employees on the basis of their uniqueness.

The nature of mind —in particular, its qualitative character— can be understood through the observation of behavior from a 3rd-person perspective. This is especially the case if one is intimately acquainted with the subject in question’s behavior.

Mental health took a dip in a substantial percentage of the population because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmacogenetics can help by streamlining and individualizing psychiatric care.

Stoic philosophy teaches us to live, not in accordance with ideals or emotions, but with reason. This means having a deeper appreciation for life, its finitude, and the people around us who we share life with. Within the context of a relationship, it is clear then how Stoic philosophy applies.

According to the Dutch Golden-Age philosopher Baruch Spinoza, humans are captured by —in “bondage” to— their emotions, causing them to live substandard lives. It is only through reason and understanding reality that we can overcome the substandard life, by regulating our emotions, according to Spinoza.