Many years ago, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968) performed a fascinating experiment in elementary school classrooms. They led teachers to believe that a special test had revealed that ...

In the 1980s, one of my psychology professors at the University of Toronto advocated against using labels for psychological or psychiatric diagnoses. "Why not?” I questioned. “How else will we know ...

Labeling a partner as a narcissist or calling a simple disagreement gaslighting has become the default way people handle ordinary conflict online. This explosive rise in clinical psychology terms is ...