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Keep on taking the medicine?
Parastou Donyai considers strategies for understanding and tackling medication non-adherence.

Imagine a patient who is 60 and recovering from breast cancer. She was treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy six months ago. Sent home with a hormonal treatment, she was told to...

Z is for… Zeigarnik effect
Our A to Z reaches the end!
To score or not to score
Maria Loades and colleagues on dilemmas posed when using questionnaires in complex, comorbid conditions.

Increasing demand on mental health services, and attempts to work towards parity of esteem, has led clinical teams to face increasingly complex and comorbid mental health needs. This...

An insidious prison
Elke Weesjes and Paula A. Madrid consider the impact of immigration policies on children’s mental health.
Featured job: Various psychologists, Elysium Healthcare
We hear from Karen Howell, Head of Psychology at Chadwick Lodge Forensic Mental Health Hospital, Milton Keynes, and North Region Head of Profession for Elysium Healthcare group.
Y is for… Yerkes–Dodson law
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Transforming knowledge about human behaviour
The Human Behaviour Change Project team on a unique collaboration between behavioural and computer scientists.

Behaviour change is key to tackling the world’s health and environmental problems: obesity, cancer, sustainable living and countless others. Researchers, policy makers and practitioners are...

More than a gut feeling
John F. Cryan addressed the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Psychobiology Section.

We are living in a microbial world. The microbes were there first, and in terms of genes we are more than 99 per cent microbial. As a neuroscientist it’s humbling to think that the weight of...

Bringing lightbulb moments out of the shadows
Robert East seeks to understand the diffusion of innovation.

I have spent much of the last two decades researching the role of word of mouth in consumer behaviour. How does innovation spread? 

Dads get sad, too
Viren Swami withdrew from his newborn son. Here, he considers the lack of research and support around postnatal depression in fathers.
Featured job: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist – Children’s Autism Services
Employer: Midlands Psychology CIC – NHS service providers since 2010.
Do women and men talk differently?
An exclusive extract from Elizabeth Stokoe's new book 'Talk – the Science of Conversation' (published by Robinson).
Mindfulness and clinical science
Bergljot Gjelsvik, Alice Tickell, Ruth Baer, Chris O’Neill and Catherine Crane call for more rigour and less hype.
Autism in women
Eloise Stark looks under the radar.

More than 1 in 100 people in the UK are estimated to have an autism spectrum condition (ASC) – a ‘triad’ of impairments related to social interaction, social communication and social...

X is for... Xenophobia
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
How real people communicate
Elizabeth Stokoe introduces a special collection by tuning in to conversation analysis: in particular, is it better to ‘talk’ or ‘speak’? Includes contributions from José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Saul Albert, Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron, Alexa Hepburn and Jenny Mandelbaum, Elliott Hoey, and Emily Hofstetter.
Retirement, health and wellbeing
An exclusive chapter from 'The Psychology of Retirement' by Doreen Rosenthal and Susan Moore, part of Routledge's 'The Psychology of Everything' series. Is retirement good for your health?
Errare humanum est
An exclusive chapter from 'The Psychology of Chess' by Fernand Gobet, part of Routledge's 'The Psychology of Everything' series.
Weather and behaviour
An exclusive chapter from 'The Psychology of Weather' by Trevor Harley, part of Routledge's 'The Psychology of Everything' series.
The Walden Model
Martin Seager and Heena Chudasama on a community-based well-being initiative involving psychologists and volunteers.
Growing a PhD student and Post-doc network
Dr Anke Kossurok with experience and advice.
What an Auschwitz survivor taught NHS safeguarding leads about resilience
Mike Drayton, Jessica Memarzia and Sarah Robinson on work with NHS England.
From mothers to matriarchs
Sergio A. Silverio with a personal take on modern constructions of ancient family values. Online exclusive.
W is for… Willpower
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Psychology's last stand: Making a difference in the zombie apocalypse
Ella Rhodes talks to psychologists in our end of days. Includes online extra.

On the third Halloween since The Wretchedness, we bring you this special report from one of the last remaining strongholds – the surprisingly sturdy offices of the British Psychological...

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