Many people have met someone who seems strangely unaffected by social cues—someone whose reactions feel out of sync with the emotional climate in the room. For a small group, this isn’t aloofness or ...

Dissociative identity disorder is often rooted in chronic childhood trauma. Repeated abuse, neglect, and attachment disruptions can fragment a growing mind. Healing is possible.

For over a hundred years, the specter of a schizophrenia diagnosis has frightened patients and their families. Yet it confers no useful meaning for treatment or prognosis.