I often hear from clients: “I’m having an existential crisis.” As flexible and creative as I try to be as a clinician, my response to this sentiment is often the same: “No, you are thinking ...

The COVID pandemic has likely contributed to an uptick in existential anxiety. Source: Cottonbro Studio/Pexels For the past few years, likely due to the COVID pandemic, I have encountered more people ...

Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details ...

Whatever your beliefs, existential anxiety is likely the fear at the root of why certain issues trigger you. francescoch/iStock via Getty Images Plus Opening my social media feed, I’m often confronted ...

The Hours, now appearing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, is a textbook example of cross-media adaptation. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1925 modernist, stream-of-consciousness novel Mrs. Dalloway, ...

From the first seconds of his new special, alternative New Zealand comedian Guy Montgomery addresses that you may not know anything about him. It’s the unsaid tension in any non-stadium audience—some ...

Carl F. Weems receives or has received funding from the state of Iowa, Youth Shelter Services of Iowa, Environmental Protection Agency, US National Science Foundation, and US National Institutes of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl F. Weems, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) Opening my social media feed, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Opening my social media feed, I’m often confronted with a jarring contrast: intense, diametrically opposed perspectives from different friends. The comments can be laced with insult ...