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A matter of life and death
... range of non-medical issues, such as preferences in food, music, TV programmes and clothing. Advance Statements must be ... I love my brain. I write, I read, I listen to music constantly… Being able to think, discuss and joke ...
‘It’s an unusual type of therapy’
... – from the gleaming tabernacle, to the menacing organ music, to the priest’s green vestigial gowns – is ...
A gothic mystery
... – a safety poster that says ‘Don’t be a victim’. Music is also used to great effect, never playing behind a ...
Big Picture: Poetry as a mental health resource
... Walton, K. (2011). Thoughtwriting – in poetry and music. New Literary History, 42(3), 455–476. Zeman, A., ...
The psychology of stuff and things
... their youth too. Usually this manifests in a taste for music, books, films and other entertainment from yesteryear, ... a creative star dies, with the mass consumption of their music, books or films or other associated items. Consider how ... with our stuff is...
The Psychologist presents… How to talk so people listen
... answer the question in a very deadpan way: “I was at a music workshop”, or he could say “what do you mean, ... People telephone and say “I’ve got this problem with music next door”, noise next door, whatever it might be. ...
Pop gifted
... rescues the sobbing child. Beach and sunset. The folksy music swells. The ending is compromise and she gets to join ...
Psychoeducation doesn’t have to be boring
... musical statues, but rather than simply freezing when the music stops children can choose to pause in a running pose, ...
The future of thinking differently
... remember a word. It helps with maths, too.’ Listening to music also helps her. In class, she finds it easier to focus on what the teacher is saying when she has classical music playing in an earbud in one ear. Her mother lobbied for ...
Student Writer Competition winners
... programmes. An organisation called TAPE offers various music and film projects; there is a strong service user group ... behind the curtain, smoking and chatting playfully. Music is played at full blast, people dance and laugh. ‘You ...
Coping with life in isolation and confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic
... similarly tell us they read books, listen to music, play card games, and cook food as good ways of filling ... 8, 162–6. Philpott, C. (2013). The sounds of silence: music in the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, The Polar ...
Mass psychogenic illness, or more spooky?
... same time as the Toronto Blessing, acid house and trance music spread across the UK, including to the Hacienda, where ...
Accepting the raw elements of living
... and the world. Connections with others, communication, music and dance are all areas to focus attention on when ...
A more fluid approach to drinking
... – evident in the naming of entertainment arenas, live music stadia and festival bars – despite growing ... & Williams, C., (2008), The impact of brand sponsorship of music festivals. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 26 (7), ...
New therapist, new hope
... it. It seems people with aphantasia can’t ‘hear’ music or similar, either. I am fervently curious to know the ...
Book reviews
... on Viennese life at the turn of the century, on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous ...
The social dimension of emotion
... tournament), or a social or cultural artefact (a piece of music). Of course, we sometimes experience emotions in ...
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
... and ‘dream pictures’ while listening to classical music. His aim was not unlike that of a patient in ... on one page… beginning and ending, if possible, with the music itself.’ He said that some of these were ‘purely ...
The exciting side of boredom
... easy ways to banish it, we play a video game or turn the music up or go to a movie. All these things are effective in ... we’re no longer bored. But when that movie ends or the music stops, there’s an even greater chasm of boredom. ...
#ALittleBitOfGood in the world
... and different ways – be that through painting, dance, music, creative writing etc. #Connection – How can we use ...
Messy narratives of childhood
... gratuitous slow motion. The baby lies forgotten as dance music pounds, bottles smash, powder flies, and grimaces of ...
Addiction and the importance of belonging
... features. About the author ‘I am a clinical and music psychologist who became interested in the importance of ...
Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
... other in a manner comparable to the themes and phrases in music (Krippner, 1981). The structure of the chemical benzene ...
Personality and art
... also more likely to invest time and money in others (e.g. music, performing arts, theatre, etc.) (McManus & Furnham, in ...
A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing
... through, new scholars who are looking at the evidence for music, creative writing, visual arts, theatre, dance, you ...