The hysteric history of pleasure toys.

Will power and self control -- or self regulation, as it is now known -- can be learned, and like a muscle, can be increased with regular use.

The addictive response sugar causes can override good intentions, self-knowledge, will power, the loss of self esteem caused by rising numbers on the scale, even threats to physical health.

Pessimistic old dogs really can learn optimistic new tricks. We have the ability to resculpt the brain to reduce abnormal fear.

The major misconception about charisma is that it is something you are born with. That charisma is like eye color or dyslexia, that you either have it or you don't. And that's not true.

When suicides happened in families, the response was to avoid any sort of meaningful examination of what had happened, and how it left people feeling. It's not helpful to ignore it. However, neither is allowing yourself to be defined by it.

Why do we gag at the idea of old people in lust? We want them to be neutered, especially older women.

Here are some reasons why people don't go to therapy: It's too expensive. I'm not telling some stranger my innermost stuff. It's self indulgent. It's a load of whiny middle class rubbish. All perfectly valid of course, but personally, I'm a believer.

Until we desist from complying with market forces so forceful that little girls are being processed into passive princesses and little boys into pint-sized assassins, the brainwashing will continue.

Gossiping neutrally or positively about third parties is very different from grousing about someone behind their back, or sending vicious comments to online forums.

Something in my head recently went "ping!" and I had an epiphany. Enough. Enough of the wishing I was something else, of wishing I was smaller, lighter, narrower, leaner. I'll have my own body, thank you very much.

Why should feeling happy -- with the aid of modern science -- require a reduced libido?

Hollywood starlets now want to look like "they've had something done."

Why allowing young children to regress could reset their electro-chemical thermostats.

Like most things that have been going on forever, there have been charges that Woody Allen's films are not as good as they used to be, but as one film critic pointed out, this is a bit like complaining that Tolstoy wrote short stories in later life rather than producing more Anna Kareninas.

How to tell young children of their father's suicide.