Irrational thinking is at the root of much emotional distress people experience. What we think we must have today may not even be what we want tomorrow. To become more tolerant of life’s unpredictable ...

‘It’s the original ideas around adapting irrational thoughts – the “cognitive” part of CBT – that seem to have trickled most into the mainstream.’Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian The first time I ...

In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the link between irrational thoughts and distress is critically examined. Since the cognitive revolution of the early 1950s, thoughts have been ...

Fear, while often seen as a primal instinct meant to protect us, can sometimes lead us down paths of sheer irrationality. It's that gut-wrenching emotion that overrides logic and pushes us to make ...

Historically, in psychology, the behavioral and cognitive-behavioral traditions did not emphasize unconscious processes—that is, when they did not flat out deny their existence or deem them irrelevant ...

Amanda Montell hosts the podcast Sounds Like a Cult. She's also the author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. How is it that we are living in the information age — and yet life seems to make less ...

Getting something stuck in your head — the catchy chorus of a song, a gruesome image from the news — can be annoying for anyone. But annoying can become alarming when intrusive thoughts, worries, or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Overthinking is the habit of excessively analyzing, dwelling on ...