psychology
Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy: Research and Practice
‘If the land is sick, you are sick’: An Aboriginal approach to mental health in times of drought

This article in Mosaic has been written by Georgina Kenyon: “A coal truck roars past, stirring up red dust that blows over the famished cattle and sheep lying in grassless paddocks. The carcasses of dead kangaroos lie next to empty water troughs. There is…
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Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
The Pursuit of Objectivity in Psychology
Social Empathy: The Art of Understanding Others
The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure

The New Psychology of Health was published in May 2018 and is co-authored by Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve Dingle and Alex Haslam. The publishers say: “Why do people who are more socially connected live longer and have better health than those…
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Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture

Learn how a psychological understanding of our emotions and behaviour gives us new ways to improve mental health and well-being: this free, online course is available from FutureLearn (the Open University). The course description says that: “Over six weeks, you will explore…
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‘There is only one mental condition, the human condition’

Martin Seager is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Change, Grow, Live , and Branch Consultant with the Central London Samaritans. He has written: “… Over the last 30 years, like many others I have been dismayed by the persistence of what is often…
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Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Why some people experience extreme mood states and what can help. ‘I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic depressive illness … Strangely enough I think I would choose to have it. It’s…
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