If you have ever looked for a psychotherapist, you may have encountered the phrase “evidence-based therapy.” It sounds reassuring. We naturally want to know that the therapy we are choosing has been scientifically tested and shown to work. And research is important. Psychotherapy should not be exempt from scientific scrutiny simply because it deals with something as complex and subjective as human experience. But there is an interesting question behind the phrase evidence-bas

In the United States, I always felt like Christmas Day was the moment the world would finally explode from the built-up frenzy of pre-holiday hysteria. Weeks of anticipation, coordinated outfits, school concerts, office parties, shipping deadlines, sugar, lights, and questionable inflatable lawn decorations all seemed to gather force until there was nowhere left for the energy to go. Here in France, it is a bit different. The great national acceleration does not happen in Dec