social identity – A New Vision for Mental Health

Addiction and the importance of belonging

Author: Editorial 27th September 2018 0 Comments

Writing in The Psychologist , Genevieve Dingle takes a social identity route in and out of substance use: “In 1990 I arrived in London for a ‘gap year’, staying with some friends-of-friends for a few weeks while looking for a job and…
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addiction, Genevieve Dingle, smoking, social identity, social prescribing, substance abuse

The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure

Author: Editorial 18th June 2018 0 Comments

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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addiction, ageing, books, brain injury, depression, eating behaviour, New Approaches, pain, psychology, social cure, social identity, stress, trauma