Click Here to Read: The Psychology of Quitting Social Media: Deactivating social media accounts can lead to less stress but more loneliness by Clay Drinko, Ph.D.
on his Play Your Way Sane blog on the Psychology Today blogs on February 22, 2025.
He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades
Click Here to Read: He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades. Then He Set It on Fire. Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12 by Sarah Maslin Nir in The New York Times on April 8, 2025.
View east along Grand Street into center of downtown Waterbury, CT, USA. Image: Daniel Case. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies
Click Here to Read: Ahead of ‘The White Lotus’ finale, Berkeley professor unpacks show’s Freudian themes and fantasies. Poulomi Saha, who studies post-colonialism and psychoanalytic critique, breaks down season three of the HBO series, from why it’s set in Thailand to the unforgettable monologue in episode five. By Sarah Fullerton, Anne Brice on the UC Berkeley news website on April 3, 2025.
A Room of (Almost) One’s Own
Click Here to Read: A Room of (Almost) One’s Own: Therapeutic labor, women’s work, and the platform economy
by Livia Garofalo, PhD, MPH in The American Psychoanalyst’s Substack Newsletter on April 10, 2025.
Virginia Woolf sitting in an armchair at Monk’s House. Image: Unknown author. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Loyalty Versus Competency in Life
This Habit Is Quietly Ruining Your Relationships
Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close
Click Here to Read: Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close: Dire wolves, made famous by “Game of Thrones,” went extinct some 13,000 years ago. Now, researchers have bred gray-wolf pups that carry genes of their ancient cousins By Carl Zimmer in The New York Times on April 7. 2025.
Reconstruction of Canis dirus (dire wolf) (Pleistocene, North America) Image: James St. John Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
