Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader whose family estrangement is causing more rifts. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author of a memoir ...

Many of the girl’s friends have begun distancing themselves from her, and I don’t know if her mother understands the full extent of the problem. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been ...

Growing up, Melissa Shultz sometimes felt like she had two fathers. One version of her dad, she told me, was playful and quick to laugh. He was a compelling storyteller who helped shape her career as ...

Think about your role in your family. Are you the daughter who smooths things over? Keeps the peace? Makes sure everyone feels okay? Or are you the one who says the thing no one else will say? If that ...