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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Finnish study last week reported that people who live alone have an 80% increased risk of depression compared to those who live in families....
This is a very interesting talk following up Brené Brown‘s presentation last year on vulnerability. We are vulnerable about things that risk exposing us in...
On March 11th a letter from two Archbishops was read out in 2,500 Catholic Churches in the UK arguing against proposed changes to make marriage...








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