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Interesting insights
... combines psychology with Soviet history and the meaning of music was always going to catch my eye. My Russian ... Stalin’s regime, and many have conjectured that his music carried coded political messages. In this short book, ... now and again to explain the...
The personal at the heart of the music business
... problems is huge. Empirical evidence backs this up: the music industry really does make people sick . Joe Penhall’s new play, 'Mood Music', currently showing at the Old Vic in London, explores ... complex psychological issues that lie at the heart of...
Is isolation or networking the pathway to genius?
... In contrast, the geniuses who manage to create images, music, stories, ideas, proofs, theories, or inventions ... the preposterous idea of providing an inventory of popular music available for purchase for whosoever had the cash – even if that music...
Dredging the riverbed of our national psyche
... ’. It’s a charge that could be levelled at the music world, too. Like psychologists and psychotherapists, ... grin. Gazelle Twin has always made deeply psychological music. She’s influenced as much by the Freudian dystopian ... horror films of David Cronenberg...
Dark peak
... of an enigma, not only because of their genre-defying music, but also because they wear masks. These are grotesque, ... from Preston, but we have no names, no context for their music. Despite having achieved the front cover of the ... privacy and anonymity...
Synchrony and the art of signalling
... in many aspects of social life, such as sports, dance or music, and why it has been an essential and enduring part of ... Launay and colleagues argue that through dance and music, rituals and sports, bonding can take place between ... societies that we know...
‘They’ve agreed to build something bigger than themselves’
... is on a mission to introduce new audiences to classical music, showing them that its relevance isn’t restricted to ... ‘Without that sense of coming together we can’t do music, so one of the things that’s really clear to me as a musician, is that music...
Harmonics of the mind
... sat on the chapel floor, surrounded by hair-raising music that took us through the build-up as the participant ... in vivid detail and talked about how the ambient music and the psilocybin interacted and guided him on a ...
How real people communicate
... cooking by guiding you through a recipe, putting on some music, doing some shopping or just telling the time. If you ... and they are trying to get Alexa to play some suitable music. Nikos Alexa (2.6) Isabel play some New Year’s music...
Q is for… Quality of Life
... feeling isolated and lonely. Whether it’s listening to music or participating in a club, it is important that the ...
The Brexit carnival
... to an unofficial, festive world of extravagant costumes, music, laughter, feasting, drinking and revelry. While the ...
An awakening
... and gave examples such as ‘being in love… listening to music or suddenly “being hit” by a book or painting, or ... in a creative performance (such as dancing or playing music), love and sex. Only a small number of sexual awakening ...
Overrated: Self-management
... the same effect.’ Moss calls non-verbal behaviour the ‘music behind the words’ and argues that it is the music that conveys the real meaning of what is being ... to ‘read’ the patient and potentially silences the music behind the words. The...
Dracula on the couch
... often conclude his treatments by playing some soothing music. The French King Louis XVI appointed a very ...
Two reflections on the blackest of mirrors
... describes as subjective. She even opens beer and plays music to help stimulate memories, which has parallels of ...
Fear, confusion and dark humour
... in her illness. Throughout there is immersive, haunting music, performed live on stage, and this accentuates the high ...
Sleeping like a baby: Sleep in the first years of life
... and then blow gently into their eyes, upon hearing the music they would soon come to expect the air and scrunch up ... naps, nappies, books, dummies, co-sleeping, listening to music at bedtime, and so much more. Understanding more about ...
Fatalistic tone ultimately helps nobody
... people of my age now resistant to listening to once-loved music from the rock band Lostprophets, after frontman Ian ...
A gothic mystery
... – a safety poster that says ‘Don’t be a victim’. Music is also used to great effect, never playing behind a ...
Addiction and the importance of belonging
... features. About the author ‘I am a clinical and music psychologist who became interested in the importance of ...
Featured Job: Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, NHS Orkney
... There is so much for children and adults – theatre, music, drama. Schools in Kirkwall are very good (no private ...
Mining for myths
... Psychology of Chess , by Fernand Gobet The Psychology of Music, by Susan Hallam The Psychology of Weather , by Trevor ...
Meaning in randomness
... idea that hidden messages can be revealed in pop and rock music when it is reversed. However, this ‘backward ...
Psychologists and the media – opportunities and challenges
... one occasion a TV programme I was on said, ‘OK, when the music comes on I want you to do a funky dance’: I had to be ...
Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism
... focus is indispensible in science, maths, technology, music, art and philosophy, among others. Obviously autistic ...