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      Exploring bereaved children’s experiences of the death of a close relative and the ways they wish to be supported: an emancipatory repeated focus group study

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      The response of a nation and admiration for a leader - a steadfast and manageable grief?

      As many around the nation mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Associate Fellow of the BPS Julie Stokes OBE, who founded the charity Winston’s Wish to support children with grief, explores the country’s reaction to the Queen’s death and also reflects on her being celebrated as a strong female leader.

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      'Restraint, power and fineness' - remembering W.H.R. Rivers

      04 June 2022 marks the 100th anniversary since the death of one of the original BPS founders, W.H.R. Rivers.

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      The psychology of collective grief

      Following the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II, many people will be grieving and feeling loss. Professor Nichola Rooney, who led the BPS’S bereavement work stream during the Covid19 pandemic, explores the concept of collective grief and national mourning.

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      Does television offer a safe place for LGBTQ+ voices and stories to be heard?

      This LGBT+ History Month, BPS member Christina Murphy looks back on how the handling of LGBTQ+ relationships on TV shows has evolved over the years, and how that portrayal impacted on her as she tried to find her identity.

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      Bame Augustine Nsamenang: an extraordinary thinker in global psychology

      For the last of our Black History Month blogs, we feature the author of 'Human Development in Cultural Context: A Third World Perspective', Bame Augustine Nsamenang (1951-2018).

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      Covid-19 public resources

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      Mental Health Awareness Week - Suicide Prevention

      As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we will be publishing a number of blog articles, beginning with this piece focussed on the issue of suicide prevention.

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      Impact of school belonging and peer support on grief symptoms in school-aged children

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      Your relationship with suicide

      Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, Dr Sue Egan shares her personal and professional experiences with how suicide has affected her.

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      Now more than ever we need action on suicide prevention

      Today's guest blog comes to us courtesy of Professor Rory O’Connor, Director of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory and Professor of Health Psychology.

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      The Psychologist, December 2015

      A matter of life and death

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        • Death and dying

          20 March 2020

          We collect together archive links on the psychology of death, dying, loss, near-death, bereavement and grief.

          • Mental health

        • Remaining with death

          30 September 2019

          Khyati Tripathi with a personal journey into death studies.

          • Palliative care
        • Silhouette of death, the grim reaper

          Watching death

          11 September 2008

          BBC News have reported that doctors at 25 UK and US hospitals plan to test people’s experiences of near death.

          • Brain

        • My Digital Death

          25 July 2017

          Rachel Starkings watches My Digital Death.

          • Cyberpsychology
          • Oncology
        • Skeletons in a sexual position

          When death is an aphrodisiac

          04 February 2011

          What effect do thoughts of death have on a typical person’s desire for sex? The short answer is that it depends.

          • Social and behavioural

        • Experiencing death to improve life

          20 January 2015

          Jelena Martinovic on near-death experiences and psychology in the 1960s and 70s.

          • History and philosophy
        • US supreme court

          How to avoid death row…

          28 April 2006

          Even after taking into account the nature of the murder, defendants who were perceived by jurors to be sorry and sincere were more likely to be sentenced to life imprisonment than to be sentenced to death.

          • Legal, criminological and forensic
        • Hospital staff

          Watching death

          23 September 2007

          I hope that one day we will be able to watch the dying brain as easily as we can now watch the living brain, writes Dr Susan Blackmore.

          • Brain
        • Woman reading a book in the bath

          What makes for a “meaningful” death in fiction?

          17 February 2021

          A new study from the State University of New York looks at what makes certain fictional deaths so memorable.

          • Social and behavioural
        • Person running on a track in woods

          When thoughts of death turn to environmentalism

          17 October 2008

          Some people derive existentially important feelings of self-esteem from pro-environmental behaviour - and respond to concerns about death with concern for the natural world.

          • Climate and environment

        • Life and death at the limits

          12 October 2016

          Roger Luckhurst on ‘zombie psychology’.

          • Brain

        • A discourse around death

          19 May 2015

          Ella Rhodes reports from a symposium at the Society's Annual Conference on end-of-life care.

          • Palliative care