The Psychologist, October 2009
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
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Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
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Access to PDFs of Psychologist issues is restricted to members of the society. Join us to enjoy this and a host of other benefits.
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
Richard Gottlieb analyses Maurice Sendak’s fascinating 1963 picture book, in this 2009 article on the eve of its cinematic release.
Teach & Learn - The path to prose
Paul McCarthy offers some reflections on supervising writing in a PhD.
Eye on fiction - The teller, the tale and the told
Steven Killick and Neil Frude talk about the psychology of oral storytelling in this 2009 article.
One on one - with Jay Belsky
Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London
Looking Back: The making and breaking of attachment theory
Barbara Tizard on John Bowlby – the origins of his ideas, their impact and his often underestimated willingness to revise them
Making up the mind
Chris Frith, winner of the Society’s 2008 Book Award with Making Up the Mind, on how his ideas have developed, and the surprising implications.
News, media, and the next big questions
Including heart attack survivors; online CBT; climate change; publication of Rorschach images; a special feature on the next big questions in psychology; and more.
The print media and rape
Sophia E. Shaw, Ellen Nye, Joanna Jamel & Heather D. Flowe ask whether the media function as disseminators of knowledge or misinformation?
Psychotherapy and other stories
Frank Tallis on life as a clinical psychologist and novelist.
The restless brain
Christian Jarrett enters the strange and controversial world of the ‘default mode network’.
The benefits of internships
We meet three people who’ve been making internships work for them.
Building roads to success in mental health
Clinical Studies Officers (CSOs) working within Leicestershire NHS Partnership Trust for the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) describe one route to acquiring valuable research skills.
Book reviews, October 2009
Saving our children from nature deficit disorder; memory; study skills; dementia; a lifetime of intelligence; and web-only reviews.
Society, October 2009
President’s column; ethical code changes; going green with the DOP; and more.
Forum, October 2009
The narrowing focus of UK psychology; US healthcare reform; bias in testing; clinical terminology; proposal for a Community Psychology Section; and more