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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Bo Jacobsen‘s paper What is happiness? The concept of happiness in existential psychology and therapy, was published in the journal Existential Analysis in 2007. Here...
I wrote this post with Steven Stanley back in 2012 Rosalind Gill has recently spoken out about the secrecies and silences which exist about the...