Psych. Dept.

I have always prided myself on being a strong woman. Coming from the markets and local grocery stores before there were any supermarkets in Rome [...]

I admit it: I like TV series. They don’t last long, some have artistic merit, while others are funny, or soothing and predictable. They help [...]

An American student studying in Rome came in for counseling some years ago. Her family couldn’t afford her tuition. They'd taken out large loans, she'd [...]

What do you remember from elementary school? Are the first memories that come to mind the contents of classes? Is it the classes — history, [...]

Late last summer I sat down to think about how I'd teach my psychology classes in the coming semester. We now live in the COVID-19 [...]

A lot of people, many of them otherwise solid and reasonable thinkers, have seized on the coronavirus to suddenly come up with all sorts of [...]

A man is crouching with one of his knees on the neck of a second man who is in handcuffs on the pavement. Some of [...]

Writing in an online forum dedicated to my courses (all this is now done remotely), one of my bright and enthusiastic students recently brought up [...]

They say that counting and other typical obsessive-compulsive symptoms are elicited in all of us in situations of danger. No doubt our distant ancestors had [...]

Decades ago, as an amateur singer in Rome, I was lucky enough to find CIMA, a group that focuses on Baroque choral music. Thankfully, at [...]

Every time a patient would come to me carrying "information" they'd picked up from some website and proceed to give their self-diagnosis – usually followed [...]

A few years ago I suffered chronic stomachaches. Concerned about their cause, I paid a visit to my Rome doctor, who asked a lot of [...]