The Psychologist, October 2024

Dr Jon Sutton introduces the issue.

Ella Rhodes on responses to recent riots.

Professor Dr Pam Birtill, Professor Ellie Dommett, Associate Professor Dr Denise Miller, Dr Robert Nash and Dr Christopher O’Donnell are among the winners of this year’s prestigious awards.

Ella Rhodes spoke to Kate Pearlman-Shaw, the Managing Director of Pearlman-Shaw Consultancy and Chartered Psychologist in the fields of Clinical and Coaching, ahead of her BPS Webinar on having impactful conversations at work (and elsewhere).

Our editor Jon Sutton meets Jess Thom, Lead Team GB sports psychologist.

Emma Young digests the research.

Recent randomised control trial finds mindfulness-based techniques produce altered states in a high number of practitioners.

A new report suggests that the mental health fallout of problem gambling could be significantly higher than previous estimates.

New research suggests that high-tempo background music may distract from counterarguing, boosting the efforts of medically trained debunkers against vaccine misinformation.

Recent work using AI-powered software to quantify facial behaviour finds facial expressivity is likely a stable trait, and that high expressiveness confers several social benefits.

Massive new Danish study finds that moving house early in life is associated with higher risk of depression in adulthood, regardless of where you're moving to or from.

Marcus Munafò, our Associate Editor for Research, on important differences in what our research questions actually are, and how we ask them.

Mark Blagrove considers the evidence, and a new theory.

Michael Hyland on how he came to like the unconscious.

Our editor Jon Sutton meets Professor Eamonn Ferguson (University of Nottingham).

Most of us can only imagine what life as a prisoner is really like. How can psychologists support rehabilitation and the understanding that people are in prison as punishment, not for punishment?

Our editor Jon Sutton meets Pia Sinha, CEO of Prison Reform Trust and a member of the British Psychological Society.

Ian Florance meets Forensic Psychologist Dr Helen Hart.

Stuart Whomsley with a personal story of accents, class and discrimination.

Positions include Assistant Psychologists, Forensic Psychologists in Training, Practitioner Psychologists, Principle Psychologists and Consultant Psychologists. We hear from the recruiter.

Dr Aoife-Marie Foran (University of Queensland) hears from her one-time colleague Professor Orla Muldoon (University of Limerick) about a new book, ‘The Social Psychology of Trauma: Connecting the Personal and the Political’.

The author of 'Sex in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy', on some offerings that have influenced her.

Alexander Samely's 'Reading and Experience: A Philosophical Investigation', reviewed by Philip Davis, Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, University of Liverpool.

Lucy Foulkes with a theme from her new book, ‘Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us’.

Our editor Dr Jon Sutton watches ‘Wild Water’, accompanied by a Q&A with the film’s director Ben Davis.

Chrissie Fitch watches Freud’s Last Session (2023).

We hear from Fiona Curran, Koestler Arts Chief Executive, ahead of their annual exhibition.

Peter Hegarty, Ben Widdicombe, Peter Sullivan and Ben Wicks take chess into prison and back to society.

In conversation with Dr Ken Greaves – a British Psychological Society oral history.

Science filmmaker and academic researcher Alex Freeman challenges the darker powers of narrative…

Barbara Cooke and Graham Towl on novel ways of applying psychological theory in prisons.

Graham Russell responds to a report in the summer edition of The Psychologist.

Fauzia Khan meets Dr Sian Williams, Counselling Psychologist, BBC presenter and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Sian shares her journey in journalism and what led her to retrain in counselling psychology.

Fauzia Khan interviews Dr Hibah Hassan, Clinical Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Fauzia Khan interviews Dr Afsana Faheem, Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, Dubai.

A tribute, and memorial event.

A tribute from colleagues at the University of Leeds.

Professor Sarah Mackenzie Ross, University College London, on her October 2017 cover feature.