In “Zero at the Bone,” the poet discusses love, lament, and living toward a ‘happy ending.’ I remember where I was when I first read Christian Wiman. I was an associate at a law firm in San Francisco, ...

I recently had the pleasure of co-teaching a Continuing Education seminar here in Los Angeles titled "Clinical Despair" with fellow PT blogger S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., director of the Mood Disorders ...

This article was adapted from episode three of The Way to Glory. Each week on The Way to Glory, we take a fresh look at a character from The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's 300-year-old masterwork.

Despair comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s triggered by a specific event; other times, it arrives inexplicably, without notice or cause. It’s impossible to find a person who hasn’t experienced ...

As 2015 wound down, a foreboding but catchy phrase from a scientific paper blew across the cultural landscape with unexpected force. The expression “deaths of despair” was born after Princeton ...