The Psychologist, June 2016
Leicester's lesson in leadership
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Helping the BPS to punch its weight
Responses to our May article.
President's Letter - June 2016
Peter Kinderman's first offering.
A conventional treatment of Milgram's work
Stephen Gibson reviews 'Experimenter', a new film on the life of Stanley Milgram, directed by Michael Almereyda.
Book Reviews - June 2016
Including a web-only selection.
From the Research Digest June 2016
A selection from the Society's blog at http://www.bps.org.uk/digest
Royal Society Fellowship
Award for Professor Eleanor Maguire.
Conspiracy in the pub
Ella Rhodes reports.
Springboard to research success
Grant recipients include Dr Molly Crockett.
LSD – ‘game-changing’ study?
Ella Rhodes reports on research by Dr Robin Carhart-Harris and Professor David Nutt, and next steps.
'Psychology and politics needs you!'
Will you support the call for a Political Psychology Section within the British Psychological Society?
With books in mind
Ella Rhodes reports.
Tackling sexual violence at university
A new taskforce chaired by Professor Graham Towl.
5 minutes with... Emily Frith
Director of Mental Health for the independent think tank CentreForum.
History of psychology boost in US
Ella Rhodes reports.
Professor Patrick O’Donnell (1947–2016)
An appreciation from Professor Stephany Biello.
Dr Adrian Bakes (1950–2016)
Remembered by Professor Erica Burman and colleagues.
‘Corny tricks’ as psychology
More debate on Derren Brown.
More male psychologists?
A letter from our June 2016 edition.
Assisted suicide and mental disorders
An alarming practice?
Effects of boarding school
The discussion continues in our letters pages.
New Society President stirs debate
A selection of letters from our June 2016 edition.
A world of diminishing boundaries
Caroline Limbert (Cardiff Metropolitan University) on the first overseas Health Psychology MSc to be accredited by the Society, and what the experience has done for her own career and that of the graduates.
The Psychologist Guide to… Leadership
Our journalist Ella Rhodes speaks to psychologists for evidence-based tips. Sponsored by Goldsmiths Institute of Management Studies.
‘You seldom heal… you live with cancer’
Ian Florance meets Cordelia Galgut to discuss how diagnosis and treatment has affected her work as a counselling psychologist.
Air raids and the crowd – citizens at war
Edgar Jones explores how British people responded to air raids during the Second World War, and what this tells us about coping under extreme stress.
Dangerous deviation or creative responsiveness?
Matt Selman on improvisation and therapy, in the latest in our series for budding writers.
One on one… with Victoria Simms
‘I pull on my trainers and go for a run’
Absent fathers and sexual strategies
Sarah E. Hill, Randi P. Proffitt Leyva and Danielle J. DelPriore take an evolutionary approach and uncover some surprising findings.
Beyond individual therapy
David Harper looks towards a psychosocial approach to public mental health.
Brain injury and crime
Ryan Aguiar suggests that neuropsychology needs to think differently.
Leicester's lesson in leadership
A leader is not 'the special one', but 'the one who makes us special', argue S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher. NOW WITH ADDED POSTSCRIPT: see below.
'What shall I tell my child?'
Dr Khadj Rouf interviews Dr Jemma Hogwood, Clinical Psychologist, about her work with survivors of the Rwandan genocide.