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Finding moderation online
Emma L. Davies, Zarnie Khadjesari, Olga Perski and Claire Garnett on digital interventions to reduce alcohol consumption.
A threadbare patchwork of support
Will Haydock with a report from the bureaucratic frontline.

Perhaps more than any area of healthcare, treatment for alcohol-related issues can involve myriad funders and providers. How is this network of provision working, and what are the lessons for...

Being a Forensic Psychologist
What's it like to be a psychologist working in forensic contexts?
Improving the lives of those affected by dementia
We bring you our top picks from the archive, and elsewhere, on dementia.
Featured job: Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Employer: Adult Gender Identity Clinic, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
"A way to be happier without changing anything at all…"
Insight from Dr Keon West introduces a trawl of our archive on mental health and body image.
The anatomy of online grief
An exclusive chapter from 'All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age', by Elaine Kasket (courtesy of Robinson).
The mother you need
Elisabeth de Mariaffi with an essay from the collection 'Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault'.
Why are life events troubling?
Ruth Spence, Lisa Kagan and Antonia Bifulco find it’s not a straightforward question…
Big data in the big city
Catherine Lido on using novel technology to explore inclusion in Learning Cities.
The psychological impact of inequality
A themed trawl of the archive…
Notes from a weather observer
Trevor Harley on the effects of weather and climate on personality and behaviour.

In 1990, when the UK temperature record was beaten with 37.1°C recorded on 3 August in Cheltenham, and when the record fell again in 2003, with 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, the media went crazy and...

The Rocky Horror Pixel Show
Where in the brain is creativity? Arne Dietrich ponders whether we’re asking the right questions.
Inside lobotomies
We bring together our lobotomy articles, and point to our top picks from elsewhere.
The essence of things
Following the Notre Dame fire, we consider the importance of objects and things.
The lifespan of a dog owner
An exclusive extract from 'The Psychology of Dog Ownership', by Theresa Barlow and Craig Roberts, published by Routledge Psychology as part of their 'The Psychology of Everything' series.
The sibling spotlight
Rachel Batchelor on the challenges facing the ‘forgotten’ brothers and sisters of seriously ill children.

Siblings can shape our character, share so many experiences with us and may know us better than anyone. Healthy sibling relationships are associated with lower levels of depression and more...

Featured Job: Head of Psychological Wellbeing Service
Employer: Help for Heroes
How do we ‘other’?
Peter Hegarty on asymmetries of reasoning for lay and professional psychologists alike.

Psychological research and practice can enhance or reduce social fairness, and it often does both. This article examines how and why researchers inadvertently reproduce social inequalities...

‘We should just be told to try our best’
Laura Nicholson and Dave Putwain provide an overview of exam anxiety, its effects and what psychologists can do to help reduce it.
A message of hope and resilience
Clare Jones and Alan Barrett on the development of the Manchester Resilience Hub in response to the May 2017 bombing.
The Psychologist Presents… at Latitude Festival
Since 2015, The Psychologist has had a slot at the annual music and arts event in Suffolk. Here, we collect transcripts and reports.
Featured Job: Elysium Psychology Graduates Academy
Employer: Elysium Healthcare
Gangs – What can psychology offer?
Laura Bolger – a Trainee Forensic Psychologist and ex-police officer – gives us her perspective on the newly adopted ‘public health approach to gangs’. She explores gangs as structured, hierarchical groups involving role-transitions. Is an identity framework the key to addressing knife crime?
Experiencing the impossible
Gustav Kuhn considers the science of magic, and what it reveals about the human mind.

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