The Psychologist, February 2019
The new hidden persuaders?
The new hidden persuaders?
Parliamentary postgraduate posts filled
New POST notes in pipeline.
Increased funding for SEND
Ella Rhodes reports.
‘Their prison is built of fear’
Ella Rhodes on the psychological impacts for children of undocumented parents.
A treasure trove of psychological wisdom
Mandeep Singh and Niamh Doody on ‘conscious rap’.
Symbolic action
Tania Bruguera: 10,148,451 at the Tate Modern; reviewed by Lucy Decker.
Politics and narrative
Tyranny of story, BBC Radio 4, reviewed by Kate Johnstone (Associate Editor for Culture).
Being Hercule Poirot
The ABC Murders, BBC1, reviewed by Sally Marlow, Associate Editor for Culture.
Consciousness – still a mystery?
'Consciousness Demystified' by Todd E. Feinberg & Jon M. Mallatt (MIT Press; Hb £20.00); reviewed by Andrew Hart.
Of Aplysia and apes
'The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves' by Eric A. Kandel (Robinson; Hb £20.00); reviewed Philip Corr.
‘I am passionate about caring for the carers’
We speak to Fiona Dunkley, author of 'Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Aid Workers: A Roadmap of Trauma and Critical Incident Care' (Routledge).
Featured job: Clinical Child Psychologists
Employer: Cardinal Clinic
Psychologists honoured in New Year list
Three recognised.
Society action for early career researchers
New survey, and free event.
Compelling narratives on detention
Ella Rhodes on the new review of the Mental Health Act.
Are we asking for too much from our clients?
An Assistant Psychologist writes.
How real people mess up
Following up a December special issue…
A swift move to Ireland
John Edwards writes.
Instagram cleaning: compulsive or comforting?
Madeleine Pownall writes.
From the Chief Executive, February 2019
Sarb Bajwa writes.
On the brink of breakdown?
Are the children better off in today’s society by having a mental illness diagnosis?
Removing patient identity and responsibility
Kirsty MacDonald writes.
Talking about suicide online
Hugo Maximillian Metcalfe writes.
Nothing new with replication
Ewen Rennie follows up a letter from our November issue.
Climbing out of the valley
Catrin Pedder Jones on challenges facing PhD students.
‘It’s a privilege to work at Great Ormond Street, but it brings responsibilities’
We meet Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh.
The new hidden persuaders?
Ella Rhodes considers whether shadowy influencers are really pulling our strings.
'We want things to be a certain way'
Ella Rhodes reports from the Christmas Symposium of the British Neuroscience Association.
‘It’s a pleasure to use the term gifted in a constructive way’
Our editor Jon Sutton meets independent practitioner educational psychologist Paul Curran.
Keep on taking the medicine?
Parastou Donyai considers strategies for understanding and tackling medication non-adherence.
‘A lady of unusual ability and force of character’
Elizabeth Valentine on Lucy G. Fildes.
‘We should stop taking ourselves so seriously’
Simon Proudlock is a Consultant Counselling Psychologist with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and in private practice. Simon won the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Award for Innovation in 2018 for his project using EMDR therapy with clients in acute care.
Z is for… Zeigarnik effect
Our A to Z reaches the end!
'A comedian's words can throw out lifebelts'
Our editor Jon Sutton reviews 'I'm a Joke and So Are You: A Comedian's Take on What Makes us Human', by Robin Ince, and meets the author. We also publish an exclusive extract.
‘Psychology without compassion leaves an emptiness’
Laura Lea with a day in the life of a service-user involvement coordinator.
We’re only human, after all
Emily Hutchinson on how organisations can improve safety by really understanding psychology.