...features

A mind-altering trip through the archives

A collection of articles on the effects of legal and illegal substance use.

‘Majestic animals  become props in a story’

Geoffrey Beattie on his new book, Trophy Hunting: A Psychological Perspective.

Featured Job: Child and Adult Psychologists

…with Nigel Blagg Associates.

A beginning, and change, if you dare to look…

For our latest annual poetry competition, we received dozens of entries. We have decided to publish the judges’ three favourites in print, with three more in this online version.

‘There is a spectrum of responses to killing far-off enemies’

Professor Peter Lee talks to Annie Brookman-Byrne about the experiences of armed drone pilots.

Our January time machine

We delve into the archive to pick out some highlights from this month in past years.

Rebuilding lives in the Recovery College

Eloise Stark on a promising addition to the mental health landscape.

In April 2018, I enrolled on a tutor training course with the Oxfordshire Recovery College. Could I use my experiences of mental ill health, time within ‘the system’ and eventual recovery in...

The psychology of sleep and dreams

A collection of articles on sleeping and dreaming...

From ‘student’ to ‘researcher’

Sophie Meakin on the benefits of her university’s ‘research partners’ project.

A hero by any other name…

Robert MacRory-Crowley and Kevin O’Malley on ‘heroism science’, ahead of its third biennial conference at the University of Limerick.

From Hercules slaying the Nemean Lion, Joan of Arc rousing France or Nelson Mandela fighting apartheid, heroes have captured imaginations and animated movements for millennia. But what makes a...

Having kittens

Dr Stacey A. Bedwell on addressing the anxieties of pet ownership.

Bereavement and grief

It's Grief Awareness Week from the Good Grief Trust…

Homelessness

A collection of archive links from The Psychologist and Research Digest on the theme of homelessness

Our December time machine

We delve into the archive to pick out some highlights from this month in past years.

Questions of sport

To coincide with the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Sport and Exercise Psychology Section, we share a collection of links to related content from the last three years, from The Psychologist and Research Digest.

Featured job: Clinical Psychologist, plans4rehab

From our January issue.

The complexity of 'complex' trauma

Adam Mahoney considers a broader understanding of context in forensic psychology.

There’s a huge interest in trauma-based therapies and the understanding that the literature on complex interpersonal trauma can bring to working with offenders. This has opened up the tired...

'All psychology is social'

Our editor Dr Jon Sutton introduces a collection of links to pieces by or about social psychologists; with additional comment from Dr Shelley McKeown Jones, Chair of the British Psychological Society's Social Psychology Section.

Out of the fog of uncertainty

Holly Edwards and Sarah Cassidy with advice for new Assistant Psychologists.

‘It is hard to be poor, harder than we thought’

Emma Young digests some research related to the Society’s 2020 theme, ‘From poverty to flourishing’.

A year in Uganda

Dr Kirstie Fleetwood Meade and Dr Tara Murphy on work with the Butabika – East London Link.

Dr Kirstie Fleetwood Meade (Counselling Psychologist) and Dr Tara Murphy (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) trained in the UK, but spent 2018 living and volunteering in Kampala, Uganda. Here,...

Can neuroscientists read your mind?

An exclusive extract from Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans, by Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald.

What makes a psychologist?

We present the five winning entries from our 2019 ‘Voices In Psychology’ programme, along with extracts from some of the other submissions and a commentary from British Psychological Society President David Murphy.