by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 20, 2026 | Addiction, Anxiety, Communication, Emotions, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Trauma
Love is often described as mysterious, unpredictable, and irrational. But few forms of attraction puzzle psychologists, clinicians, and laypeople alike as much as the phenomenon of falling in love with a psychopath. How can highly intelligent, manipulative, and often...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2026 | Joy, Love, Relationships, Sacred, Spirituality
The unexpected encounters with love and humanity that changed my life. When I was 16, I spent a fall weekend on a Church retreat on the South Side of Chicago with about 30 other teenagers. We stayed at Hyde Park Union Church with pastors from our local Church. We...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 13, 2026 | Communication, Marriage, Relationships
Intelligence has long been revered in society as a marker of success, competence, and problem-solving ability. High IQ individuals are often assumed to possess not only cognitive superiority but also wisdom, morality, and sound judgment. Yet, history and psychological...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 1, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Depression, Psychotherapy
The Ultimate Consciousness Drug That is Experiencing a Resurgence Research into using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat depression is being renewed. LSD was extensively investigated in humans in the 1950s and ‘60s and was shown to attenuate depressive...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
