Julia Sheffield, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has dedicated her career to solving the mysteries of psychosis. As a clinician, Sheffield, the Jack Martin, MD ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Distorted perceptions of relationships can be dangerous for ...

Treatment of delusional disorder often involves both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. Given the chronic nature of this condition, treatment strategies should be tailored to the individual needs ...

A delusion is a fixed, relatively immutable, persistent, false belief with no basis in reality. Source: Piotr Marcinski/Shutterstock We talk often about "deluded" people: “The person on the talent ...

Can digital therapy help counteract the distressing auditory hallucinations experienced by individuals with psychosis? A phase 2/3 trial, recently published in Nature Medicine, offers promising ...

Psychedelic drugs are seeing a surge of interest from mainstream medicine, and initial results suggest that psychedelic-therapy can be a safe and effective treatment for some mental health conditions.

Clinicians are now confronting a pattern they had never seen at scale before: people arriving in crisis after long, intense conversations with chatbots. The emerging picture is not of a rare curiosity ...

You know the cameras are everywhere, watching your every move. They are embedded in street lights and often confused with doorbell cameras. In the walls, lights, cars and every public space. You just ...

Former director of Minnesota Security Hospital says letter reminds him of patients he treated with grandiose delusions. Vance Boelter’s letter to the FBI about his alleged shootings of Minnesota ...