--- title: Lisa Damour | TIME description: Damour is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast, works in collaboration with UNICEF, and is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association canonical: https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Lisa Damour  ## Lisa Damour Damour is the author of three _New York Times_ best sellers: [_Untangled_](https://drlisadamour.com/books/untangled/), [_Under Pressure_](https://drlisadamour.com/books/under-pressure/), and [_The Emotional Lives of Teenagers_](https://drlisadamour.com/books/the-emotional-lives-of-teenagers/)_._ She co-hosts the [Ask Lisa podcast](https://drlisadamour.com/tag/podcast/), works in collaboration with [UNICEF](https://www.youtube.com/c/UNICEF/search?query=damour), and is recognized as a [thought leader](https://convention.apa.org/blog/Lisa-Damour) by the American Psychological Association  ## Lisa Damour *  Mar 8, 2023 ### [How to Help Teenagers Stay Motivated at School](https://time.com/6260825/teenagers-motivation-school/) "Sending our teens to school is like sending them to a buffet where they are required to try everyth... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 8, 2019 ### [You Can Track Almost Everything Your Kids Do Online. Here’s Why That May Not Be a Good Idea](https://time.com/5523239/parenting-behavior-technology-social-media/) Why are parents worrying so much about the best-behaved generation in history? [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 17, 2016 ### [Your Teenage Daughter Isn’t Psychotic—and 3 Other Things to Stop Worrying About](https://time.com/4225725/your-teenage-daughter-isnt-psychotic-and-3-other-things-to-stop-worrying-about/) A psychologist explains why normal teen behavior can seem bizarre Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/","name":"Lisa Damour"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/"},"name":"Lisa Damour","jobTitle":null,"description":"Damour is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Untangled, Under Pressure, and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She co-hosts the Ask Lisa podcast, works in collaboration with UNICEF, and is recognized as a thought leader by the American Psychological Association","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6524801b5783214f/69887dd2ab6d777a616a8731/lisadamour_ccolleen-chrzanowski.jpeg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-damour/","sameAs":["https://x.com/ldamour"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```