Dan Savage in an interview about the highly successful It Gets Better suicide prevention campaign for LGBT youth, explaining why the campaign is so effective and innovative in the media ecology.

Empowered and engaged patients improve all types of health care.

Association for Psychological Science symposium on studies of meditation and its effects on cognition, performance, attention, mood, and more.

Beautifully eloquent a capella rap about how it really feels to be suicidal, with encouragement to go on. A vividly poetic and compelling performance, so good it’s gone viral.

The brilliant leader of a progressive self-governed tent city talks about its genesis, principles, and his personal experiences of depression and homelessness.

A creative student film with nattated citations edited between fictional portayals of situations of peer influence in a fashion shoot, party, and a girl’s suicide attempt.

Authenticity and vulnerability to improve relationships.

Brene Brown on shame and how it gets in the way of how we know to be happy, the role of gender and shame, and its relationship to worthiness and perfectionism.

Psychologist Robert Cialdini describes common techniques of persuasion used in advertising.

A leading neuropsychiatrist describes how our body and brains function in modern society.