Do you ever wonder why some characteristics seem to run in families? Or why emotional heartbreak can feel so physically painful? The biological perspective in psychology can offer some answers to such ...

On a recent trip to Japan, I invited Shoji Muramoto, a longtime leader in Japanese humanistic psychology, to offer his view on the past, present, and future of this branch of psychological thought.

The common factors in all persistent unhappiness, mental illness, emotional disorder, and relationship dysfunction are rigid perspectives. Almost always narrow in scope, rigid perspectives are: ...