If you tolerate behavior from relatives you would never accept from anyone else, it may be a sign that your ‘holiday personality’ has taken over. The holidays have a curious way of pulling us back in ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When you grow up in unpredictable environments or experience something ...

Past trauma casts long shadows over present relationships, creating invisible barriers to intimacy and connection that both partners often struggle to understand. When traumatic experiences remain ...

This post is the second of a series about dispelling trauma myths. (You can read the first one here.) As a phenomenon, trauma involves a collection of experiences and reactions rooted in our ...