What is a vocation, and how do we find ours? A vocation, as David Brooks suggests, is an irrational factor wherein you hear ...

If you think compulsions are unpleasant and involuntary, you haven't kept up with modern conceptions of OCD, which find that ...

The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

The ‘gray area’ of addiction.

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Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio is really stepping into shoes he isn't able to fill, and it's all because of his boss's orders and his own obed.

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By Vijay Kumar Malesu A clinical study of treatment-seeking patients reveals that compulsive buying disorder affects men and ...

A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a ...

Compulsive traits are tendencies to repeat patterned behaviors. They are often seen in psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction and eating disorders. However, ...

Cognitive psychology research on the Zeigarnik effect explains why unresolved relationship endings cause compulsive ...

"As he pocketed items, I’d surreptitiously scan our surroundings, mortified, hoping nobody else had noticed." ...