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Mental health: beyond a health focus

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 21 June
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A number of news pieces in recent weeks have discussed a new report which found that only 25% of people with mental health problems get the help that they...
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Body Image Report

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 13 June
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Last weekend there was a fascinating article in The Observer about psychological research on body image: Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report by Eva Wiseman. The...
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Book update

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 28 May
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In May 2012 I was finishing off the first edition of Rewriting the Rules. I finished the index for Rewriting the Rules over the weekend...
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Tuning out, turning in – Turning out, tuning in: Depression and Conflict

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 17 May
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Yesterday I found myself reflecting on two different issues that I think about a lot: depression and conflict. I’m about to start writing a chapter...
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The H-word: Happiness

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 14 May
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On May 22nd the magazine DIVA and the mental health charity PACE held an evening event called The H-word. The H-word in question is happiness, and...
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Self-help or not self-help?

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 27 April
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I recently read a great new book by my colleague, Scott Cherry, called How to Stop Reading Self-Help Books. As well as being an entertaining...
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Sexual cultures: Polyamory panel

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 25 April
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We ran a panel on open non-monogamy and polyamory at the Sexual Cultures conference in Brunel last weekend. Daniel Cardoso (who organised the panel) kindly...
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Rubin Revisited

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 19 April
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This post from 2012 introduces some ideas about Rubin’s sex hierarchy which I write about in more depth in The Psychology of Sex. For the Sexual...
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Open relationships and national surveys

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 8 April
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Arianne Cohen wrote a very interesting article last week about the range of ways of managing non-monogamous relationships that people have. I’m quoted in the...
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Make it the practice: Mindful driving

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 28 March
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Mindfulness is huge at the moment. Tens of thousands of people worldwide have completed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme of Jon Kabat-Zinn. Counsellors and therapists train in...
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