The Psychologist, November 2013

Mark Burton, joint winner of the Society’s 2013 Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity, provides an action framework for responding to contemporary crises.

Helen Fisher explores links between childhood maltreatment and adult psychosis.

Image and text by Carla MacKinnon.

Fellow of the Society for her work on the dissemination of psychological knowledge, and a former Editor of The Psychologist

Sarah Chaney looks at how late 19th-century psychiatry interpreted and explained self-mutilation.

Scott Cole with the latest in our series for budding writers.

We talk to Peter Mitchell about teaching psychology in Malaysia; and to Lucy Standing on the working options for occupational psychologists, and on her role as a social entrepreneur

Richard Byrne tells Lance Workman about his work with apes and elephants.

Christopher Griffiths and Jacqueline Sin offer support for the brothers and sisters of people affected by mental illness.

President’s column; Book Awards 2013; engaging with politics in Northern Ireland; communicating psychology to the public through dance; Division of Health Psychology awards; and more

the usual mix of book reviews and other media reviews, including a review of the ‘Thinking with the Body’ exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.

best practice research recommendations; dementia screening; BRAIN Initiative; video games and violence; reports from the BPS/British Association Lecture, CogDev 2013, Division of Health Psychology conference; and more

responses to austerity; work capacity assessments; psychology graduate job market; anorexia and autism; and more