A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Sessions with a zombie therapist.

Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.

But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.

The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.

Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

Heart removal as therapy.

A botched tattoo; alternative therapy.

Life problems imagined as fantasies.

The surprising bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans.

A novelist and a psychotherapist discuss truth, fiction and the stories we tell ourselves.

Assessing 40 years of treatment.

My abiding faith in the possibility of self-transformation propelled me from one therapist to the next, ever on the lookout for something that seemed tormentingly out of reach, some scenario that would allow me to live more comfortably in my own skin. For all my doubts about specific tenets and individual psychoanalysts, I believed in the surpassing value of insight and the curative potential of treatment — and that may have been the problem to begin with.

On therapists who help people stay in the closet.

Barry Michels is Hollywood’s most successful therapist cum motivation coach with an approach that combines Jungian psychology, encouraging patients to embrace their dark side, and “three-by-five index cards inscribed with Delphic pronouncements like THE HIERARCHY WILL NEVER BE CLEAR.”

In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.