The Psychologist, September 2018
Yawning at the apocalypse
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Ain't that the tooth
Heather Buchanan visits a Wellcome Collection exhibition.
Featured job: Educational/clinical psychologists, Witherslack Group
From our September edition.
U is for… Unity
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Where will all this lead us...?
The documentary 'Generation Wealth' – written and directed by Lauren Greenfield – reviewed by Niall James Holohan.
Humans in nature
Isobel Todd visits The Wonder Project, in Wakehurst, Ardingly.
‘One day a week I’d sit in a café and write – it was a total pleasure’
We speak to psychologist and author Lucy Maddox, about her new book 'Blueprint: How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are'; plus, we have an exclusive chapter.
A book that shaped me… Long Walk to Freedom
…with Trudi Taylor (an executive coach based in Wiltshire).
An excellent synthesis
Immoral Education: The Assault On Teachers’ Identities, Autonomy and Efficacy by Simon Gibbs (Routledge; Hb £115.00) reviewed by by Marc Smith
Decolonising psychology
Culture Across the Curriculum: A Psychology Teacher’s Handbook by Kenneth D. Keith (Ed.) (Cambridge University Press; Pb £29.99) reviewed by Julie Hulme.
Child-centred therapy
'Growing Pains: Making Sense of Childhood – a Psychiatrist’s Story' by Mike Shooter (Hodder & Stoughton; Hb £18.99), reviewed by Aruna Sankaranarayanan.
‘I felt a little lost at this point’
'Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny' by Kate Manne (Oxford University Press; Hb £18.99), reviewed by Paula Nicolson.
The broken hearts club
Dinsa Sachan talks to psychologists about their research on the effects of relationship break-up.
Helen Cottee (1958–2018)
Hopeful possibilities of resistance
Ron Roberts writes.
More on Maslow
Two letters from our September edition.
Clinical engagement in NHS research
Emma Sellers writes.
De-medicalising therapy
Jasmin Kaur Gill writes.
mTBI – a controversial field
A response to an interview in our July edition.
Preparing for change
A message from British Psychological Society Chief Executive Sarb Bajwa.
Shaping policy – not for all in the house of psychology
Abby Moralee responds to an article in our June edition.
An inspired wander through PsyPAG
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG) was held at the University of Huddersfield, our Journalist Ella Rhodes was there.
The last psychologist standing
Ella Rhodes reports from 'I'm a Scientist…'
An end in sight for ‘bogus and abhorrent’ conversion therapy
Ella Rhodes reports.
Bridging psychology and neuroscience
British Psychological Society awards for Professors Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Trevor Robbins. Maria Atter and Ella Rhodes report.
Yawning at the apocalypse
Cameron Brick and Sander van der Linden on how psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history.
‘Open the black box, see what’s in it’
Andrew Clement meets Professor Karina Nielsen, from Sheffield University Management School, at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference
An awakening
Steve Taylor on a type of experience he feels has been neglected by psychology.
‘I don’t want people to experience what I experienced'
Ian Florance meets Alexandra Stein.
Supple bodies, healthy minds
Yoga meets psychedelics in the 1960s, with Lucas Richert and Matthew Decloedt.
'The role is not about me, it's about the Society'
One on One with… Kate Bullen, incoming President of the British Psychological Society.