Heather Havrilesky answers reader letters about family, friendship, guilt and ambivalence, mixing personal essay with advice. Paid subscribers get one or two long-form columns per week, each opening with a work of art.

A Substack publication featuring essays and guest posts on philosophical, critical and scientific debates in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Readers get first-person accounts of lived experience, clinical reflections and scholarly commentary on how care, medication and moral values intersect with mental health practice.

Donald J. Robertson, a cognitive-behavioural therapist, explains Stoic philosophy and its practical techniques, drawing on ancient sources such as Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Musonius Rufus. Readers get articles, course lessons and commentary on how Stoic exercises compare with modern psychotherapy.

Long-form essays on psychedelic therapy, integration, and the psychology of change, weighing scientific evidence against cultural claims. Readers get careful, candid discussion of dosing, difficult experiences, and how people actually shift their self-understanding.