Humans are an existential species. We need to believe that our lives have meaning. Currently, young people too often receive cultural messages that undermine meaning. They are told that they have ...

A growing research base is catching up to a kind of suffering that mainstream mental health discourse often misses.

WHO AM I? What’s my purpose? What mark can I make on the world? Just about everyone has asked themselves these questions at some point in their lives, usually when they’re going through new life ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. While the human quest of meaning is perennial, the answers ...

COVID-19 brought existential questions to the fore as we contemplated the real possibility of death from an invisible threat. In 1967, a generation of young Americans emerged from the Summer of Love ...

It can arrive like a collision, or it can arrive in the silence of 3am—the moment when the usual answers to your life simply stop working. You showed up and did all the achieving, and yet something ...

Existentialism is a philosophy that focuses on our freedom to find meaning and take responsibility for our actions. Existential therapy helps people cope with anxiety and make authentic choices by ...

Dictionary.com has recognized that all of this gloom and doom has left people questioning life and its greater meaning by choosing “existential” as its word of the year. The website defines the word ...

Science has given us so much. We ultimately owe speedy transportation, enthralling entertainment, life-saving advances, full bellies, and longer, healthier lives to individuals who asked questions, ...