Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

Using blame, denial, or avoidance to numb or elude pain not only causes suffering, it cuts us off from our basic humanity. We cannot recognize the pain of others when inured to our own.

U.S. soccer star Hope Solo says she’s seeing a therapist for “all the pain and anger that was inside” of her. Solo opened up on her new blog about how she spent her time during a 30-day ...

Survivors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge atrocities reacted with pain, anger and relief on Tuesday as they watched Pol Pot's chief torturer in the dock, 30 years after the fall of a regime blamed for 1 ...

Thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils before dawn on Thursday across southern Turkey, voicing pain and anger as they marked the moment a devastating earthquake struck two years ago. Two ...

For many, the pain was just too much to bear. “It’s horrible. I have a cousin — her child died,” said one resident who worked near Club Pulse and asked not to give his name.