Buddhist researchers from the University of Hong Kong have published findings that suggest religious chanting can reduce stress.
Understanding the Worst in Human Nature
Andrea Miller interviews psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton, who studies the worst in human nature to help us bring out the best.
The Scene of the Accident

In moments of shock we might find that we are suddenly free of our habitual ways of perceiving. These are moments when we might readily tap into our inherent goodness.
Why Buddhism is True
Our editor-in-chief, Melvin McLeod, talks to evolutionary psychologist and the author of “Why Buddhism Is True,” Robert Wright.
Where Buddhism and Science Meet: Teachings, Commentary, and News
Now more than ever, Buddhists are using scientific tools and scientists are using Buddhist wisdom to uncover truths about the universe.
The Perfect Love We Seek, The Imperfect Love We Live
Psychologist John Welwood looks at the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal.
The Bardo of Breaking Up
The notion of bardo—the in-between state—from The Tibetan Book of the Dead is very helpful for anyone dealing with the end of a relationship.
You’re Basically Good — The Benefits of Contemplative Psychotherapy
Karen Kissel Wegela on therapy that starts with your basic sanity, not your neuroses.
A Buddhist psychoanalyst puts our divided country on the couch
Psychoanalyst Robert Langan traces the current climate of demonization to the three poisons: greed, aversion, and the ignorance of self-righteous certainty.
Waking Up Bipolar

Many years after his first psychotic break, Chris Cole learned that recovery meant understanding his bipolar disorder through both medicine and spiritually.