Intrusive thoughts are some of the most personal and agonizing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thanks to OCD, just one single unpleasant thought or image—violent, sexual, obscene, ...

I went for a walk in my white, mid-Michigan neighborhood while wearing a face-concealing visor, wandered around my backyard when I returned, and was greeted jovially by several neighbors and their ...

For a year after we married, my husband and I attended an Anglican church. It was the first time I’d encountered liturgy on a weekly basis, learning its rhythms. Among those rhythms is corporate ...

Most people can’t imagine any set of circumstances, other than perhaps torture, under which they would confess to a crime they did not commit. And even fewer can imagine ever falsely confessing to a ...

The act of confessing has been occurring for centuries in at least two disparate contexts: religious and legal. In the religious sense, confession has at least two meanings: the confession of ones ...

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Administration, California State University, Dominguez Hills If you are one of the millions of people who have listened to the podcast “Serial” or watched ...