 | ContentsBy the time you read this, those 'Olympic countdowns' will have ticked round to less than one month to go, with the Paralympics following hot on their heels. With the Games on our shores we are told... |
The Psychologist
The Psychologist is the Society's monthly publication. With its readership over 47,000, it provides a forum for communication, discussion and debate on a wide range of psychological topics.
 | Contents'Whenever I talk about real cases, real lives, the students love it, and it sparks discussion and ideas. There must be some way of showing that our discipline is about people, about personal stories... |
 | ContentsThe issueAs anyone with kids of a certain age will tell you, naturalist and TV presenter Steve Backshall is a tough guy. Perhaps this is what makes his reaction to being stung by hundreds of... |
 | EditorialThe menopausal woman may not be 'an unstable oestrogen starved' woman responsible for 'untold misery' as sixties gynaecologist Robert Wilson would have had us believe. But viewed... |
 | EditorialI edited this month's cover article around the time my kids were badgering me to get a dog (or doggedly requesting a badger... I wasn't really listening). On p.172, Deborah Wells certainly makes a... |
 | Editorial'I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin', said Joan of Arc. Unfortunately most of us are rather less pious, and the Seven Deadly Sins colour our lives. The red mist descends, we... |
 | EditorialAntarctica: as Ron Roberts writes in this issue, a place where 'the transcendent coexists with the tragic, a juxtaposition of beauty and threatening natural power'. The transcendent and tragic, beauty... |
 | Produced by The Psychologist and the British Psychological Society in association with the Experimental Psychology Society and the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network, this poster would grace any classroom,... |
 | EditorialA former pupil of William James, the philosopher George Santayana, once said: 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'. As someone fully immersed in the history of psychology I... |
 | Editorial'Daddy,' said my six-year-old son on the day I finished interviewing Cordelia Fine, 'Did you know that boys go to college to get more knowledge, and girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider?' I chuckled... |
