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‘The planting puts new life into me’
Jenny Walters on a gardening project with victims of torture.

‘Nature provides a metaphor to help integrate all aspects of life. The psyche is reflected in nature; you see greatness and smallness, harmony and destruction. When we understand nature we...

Chronic pain acceptance does not equal accepting chronic pain
Ute Liersch writes.

Acceptance is in vogue. In mindfulness therapies, books and apps, acceptance is presented as a helpful attitude for anyone to have or to gain. For the specific population of people coping with...

The allure of mysteries
Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan meets researchers to look behind the painting…
Covid-19, trust, paranoia and compulsive buying
Rusi Jaspal and Barbara Lopes on their recent findings.
Forging brighter futures with young care leavers
Duncan Gillard, Louise Hayes, Aoife McNally and Kate Willis on giving people skills to ‘reboot’ their lives.

You cannot predict the outcomes of human development. All you can do is, like a farmer, create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
The late Sir Ken Robinson – author,...

Our October time machine
We delve into the archive to pick out some highlights from this month in past years.
Painfully precious moments
Dr Petra Boynton on coping with pregnancy loss, for Babyloss Awareness Week 2020.
From poverty to flourishing
Links to updates on the BPS ‘From Poverty to Flourishing’ campaign
What stories can a photography workshop tell us?
Dr Anita Freeman with an account of an arts and health collaboration within a NHS paediatric HIV clinic.
Editorial, November 2020
Dr Jon Sutton introduces the issue.
Featured job: Clinical or Counselling Psychologists, Chelsea Psychology Clinic
Ian Florance hears about ‘…a rewarding experience’.
Frontotemporal dementia in Covid-times
Kayleigh Watts, an Assistant Psychologist in the Neuropsychology Department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, considers frontotemporal dementia during the Covid-19 pandemic.
#ALittleBitOfGood in the world
Claire Murphy-Morgan is Artistic Director of Newcastle-based arts charity Monkfish Productions, and a Northumbria University MSc Psychology Postgraduate. Here, she talks about an arts project helping to unlock the creative potential of us all as active citizens, by sharing good news for a change…
What makes great art?
An exclusive chapter from The Psychology of Art, by George Mather; part of Routledge's 'The Psychology of Everything' series.
The psychology of exercise in retirees
An exclusive chapter from 'The Psychology of Exercise', by Josephine Perry, published by Routledge.
Self-Help and Wellbeing: Ifs, nots, myths, and knots
An exclusive chapter from The Psychology of Wellbeing, by Gary W. Wood, published by Routledge.
Our 2020 poetry competition
Your annual chance to get those creative juices flowing; this year, with a special theme.
Do you know yourself?
Emma Young digests the research on self-knowledge.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1750.

Emotions in motion
An extract from ‘The Dance Cure: The surprising secret to being smarter, stronger, happier’ by Dr Peter Lovatt, with kind permission from the publisher Short Books.

I dance to release endorphins and make me happy. I dance to share joy and laugh with others. I dance to feel my heart beat faster.
– Female, aged 23, Dr Dance Survey ...

ACTing my way through a pandemic
Samantha Ross on Imposter Syndrome, working From home and being an Assistant Psychologist during Covid-19.
Marie Jahoda – the ultimate example
Michael Billig turns to historical studies of writing psychology to argue for ‘more examples, less theory’ in this extended and adapted extract from his new book.
What Very Important thing have you lost or found on your Psychology journey?
Our latest Voices In Psychology programme question.
Being curious about misophonia
Elaine Turtle reflects on a learning journey during her early years as a Counselling Psychologist.

Newly qualified, I was eager to engage in therapeutic work with a client who contacted me for help with ‘misophonia’. But the condition was not ringing any bells with me. I was frustrated and...

Our September time machine
We delve into the archive to pick out some highlights from this month in past years.
Fair’s fair?
What should psychologists understand about austerity, and ways to broaden the role of psychologists in order to combat its effects? Insights from ‘Make My City Fair’ in Birmingham.

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