The Psychologist, January 2019

Ella Rhodes reports.

We hear from Karen Howell, Head of Psychology at Chadwick Lodge Forensic Mental Health Hospital, Milton Keynes, and North Region Head of Profession for Elysium Healthcare group.

Sarb Bajwa writes.

Ella Rhodes asks the questions.

Ella Rhodes reports on a BPS-sponsored event.

Ella Rhodes reports from a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Psychology.

Ella Rhodes on the latest from the Edge.

Ella Rhodes reports from the British Psychological Society's Military Psychology conference.

Alina Ivan on Southeast London as a hotbed of psychological creativity.

Terri Apter on the latest Royal Shakespeare Company approach to Troilus and Cressida.

'55 Steps', a film by director Bille August, reviewed by Peter Kinderman.

Uta Frith and Chris Frith visit ‘Modern Couples’ at the Barbican.

An appreciation.

An appreciation.

Ewen Scott writes.

Mark Burton, Carolyn Kagan, Francis Vergunst - long-term advocates of divestment in terms of the Society's investment policy - welcome recent news.

Frederick Toates writes.

A response to an article in our November edition.

A letter from our January edition.

Peter Collett with a letter from our January edition; plus a response.

'Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Culture Wires Our Minds, Shapes Our Nations, and Drives Our Differences' by Michele J. Gelfand (Robinson; Pb £13.99). Reviewed by Louise Beaton.

'The Neuroscience of Emotion' by Ralph Adolphs & David J. Anderson (Princeton University Press; Hb £35.00). Reviewed by Carolyn Saund.

'Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes' by Richard Hallam (Routledge; Pb £31.99). Reviewed by Paul Moloney.

Pearlaine Christabel (Chrissie) Fitch.

'MeeTwo Teenage Mental Help Handbook' by Suzi Godson (Ed.) (MeeTwo Education; Pb £12.00). Reviewed by Jon Sutton; with online-only Q&A with the author.

We speak to Alan Baddeley, Professor at the University of York, about his new book Working Memories: Postmen, Divers and the Cognitive Revolution (Routledge).

Joe MacDonagh on the Hawthorne Studies – the origins of modern organisational research.

The Psychologist A to Z continues.

Martin Milton on what psychologists can learn from the Hanya Yanigihara novel.

One on one… with Peter Dillon-Hooper, who this month retires from the BPS and his post as Assistant Editor of The Psychologist after more than 20 years of service.

Jon Sutton meets Sarah Garfinkel at the annual conference of the Psychobiology Section.

The Human Behaviour Change Project team on a unique collaboration between behavioural and computer scientists.

John F. Cryan addressed the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Psychobiology Section.

Ian Florance hears from Tony Page – self-employed Chartered Psychologist and author – about our ‘mistaken craving for freedom’.

Thea Fitch talks to Ian Florance about her move from homelessness and eating disorders to becoming a psychologist working at the Recovery and Wellbeing College.

We meet Hilde and Ylva Østby, to hear about their 'Adventures in Memory', and run an exclusive chapter from the book.

Pauline Meyer visits 'Living with Buildings', an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.