"Meaning-oriented music therapy is suitable for cancer patients in China and may considerably improve their mental health states and quality of life. The low-cost, (probably) side-effect free and easily applicable approach is usually highly appreciated by patients." Qi Mao, Wolfgang Mastnak et al. show in a new study "the importance of holistic and systematic intervention to treat psychological distress of cancer patients."

Human beings live and die between this world and the beyond. Michael Imhof, physician and philosopher, reflects on this arc of tension in his monograph Man Between Physics and Metaphysics, Volume 3 of the series Philosophy of Medicine and of the Human Being.

American science took a beating this year, with cuts to funding, jobs and credibility. And yet, scientists persisted and made progress. These advances in 2025 spotlight how crucial it is to support biomedical research — and how much of an impact it can have on people’s lives.

Since the release of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation and the call for “phone-free schools,” a plethora of states (18 plus DC to be exact) and a continually growing number of foreign countries have responded favorably. Thanks to the research and model policies of the Phone-Free Schools Movement, millions of young people are now able to better focus on the hard work of learning without being distracted by the latest TikTok reels or YouTube Shorts.

The limits of of language and understanding are often unconscious, yet always risky. Therefore, language alone is frequently insufficient in psychotherapy, Enila Ataie and Alfred Pritz reflect in a new study: "Psychotherapy on a Global Scale".

Advanced civilizations on every continent have developed their own psychologies. In his “World History of Psychology,” Hannes Stubbe describes the diverse, often incompatible, creative developments that have taken place over the centuries. In the long term, however, the empirical approaches of the Greek physician Aristotle have prevailed worldwide – and have been further developed in some cases and narrowed in others in forms of Anglo-American-European psychology.