The Psychologist, December 2018
How real people communicate
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A kaleidoscope of mental Illness
'The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK' by Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott (Eds.) (Skiddaw Books; Pb £9.99). Reviewed by Deborah Husbands.
‘Impact has got to be more than ingroup grooming’
Malcolm MacLachlan is Director of the ALL (Assisting Living and Learning) Institute and Professor of Psychology and Social Inclusion at Maynooth University.
Interesting insights
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson (Notting Hill Editions; Hb £14.99), reviewed by Professor Catherine Loveday.
Better living through chemistry?
'How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics' by Michael Pollan (Allen Lane; Hb £20.00), reviewed by Dr Mark Oliver.
The ape that became us
Evolutionary psychologist Lance Workman takes a look at the competition: 'The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve' by Steve Stewart-Williams (Cambridge University Press; Hb £20.00).
Featured job: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – Children’s Autism Services
Employer: Midlands Psychology CIC – NHS service providers since 2010.
Dredging the riverbed of our national psyche
Gazelle Twin at the Attenborough Centre, Brighton, reviewed by Isobel Todd.
‘They’ve agreed to build something bigger than themselves’
Sally Marlow experiences a ‘Mile-Long Opera’ and meets its Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang.
Five minutes with… Dr Harbinder Sandhu
Associate Professor and Practitioner Health Psychologist Dr Harbinder Sandhu (Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick) is leading a large trial of an intervention that aims to help people with chronic pain taper their opioid use.
Strengthening BPS policy
Senate vote, Society statements, and vacancies.
Turing Institute elects new Fellows
Psychologists and neuroscientists honoured – Ella Rhodes reports.
Award for social inclusion work
British Psychological Society award for Malcolm McLachlan.
Psychology strong in Leverhulme Prizes
Ella Rhodes reports on recent awards.
Revealing Britain’s prejudices
Ella Rhodes reports.
From the Chief Executive, December 2018
Sarb Bajwa writes.
Paving the way to dementia-friendly communities
Emma Corcoran writes.
Relationship counselling as a ‘necessary social justice'
A letter from our December edition.
Mindfulness and clinical science
Bergljot Gjelsvik, Alice Tickell, Ruth Baer, Chris O’Neill and Catherine Crane call for more rigour and less hype.
‘There is a problem with juries acting on myths rather than evidence’
Ella Rhodes speaks to Dominic Willmott, whose research on the role of inaccurate beliefs about rape has caught the attention of policy makers.
X is for... Xenophobia
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Early relationships matter
Rebecca Fellows is an Assistant Psychologist in a busy and expanding Infant Mental Health Service in Leeds.
'We’re pulling bodies out of the river, we need to ask why they’re falling in’
Ian Florance meets Dawn Edge.
How real people communicate
Elizabeth Stokoe introduces a special collection by tuning in to conversation analysis: in particular, is it better to ‘talk’ or ‘speak’? Includes contributions from José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Saul Albert, Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron, Alexa Hepburn and Jenny Mandelbaum, Elliott Hoey, and Emily Hofstetter.
Absorbing rather than simply studying
Martin Milton watches a play from Matthew Lopez, The Inheritance.