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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... they are changed by psychology, but they change psychology as well.' So said Dr Catherine Loveday, from the University of Westminster and a member of the Psychologist and Digest Policy Committee. Our discussions led to 'Viewpoints', hopefully the first of many accounts from individuals who have taken part in psychological research or practice. We hear their story, that of the researchers, and also get the perspective of an organisation hoping to make use of the findings.
To complement that series opener, I sought a piece from Dr Alison Lee (Bath Spa University), after seeing her using personal stories to great effect in the Society's student lectures. More than any other science, psychology is about the tales behind the t-tests, and what we can learn from our subject matter. Do get in touch if you could contribute to an increasing reflection on the person in psychological research in The Psychologist.
Dr Jon Sutton
The person in psychological science
Alison Lee, from her perspective in neuropsychology, argues that psychologists need to get to know their participants
Viewpoints: The cost of caregiving
The first of a new series focusing on the person in psychological research and practice
Problem solving for personality disorder
Mary McMurran and Stephen Coupe describe a promising approach
Social anxiety in higher education
Phil Topham and Graham Russell
The brief alcohol intervention
Daniel Regan looks at an evidence-based strategy for reducing drinking
Letters
Emotional response; impact; theoretical work psychology; Little Albert; and more
News and digest
Rows over replication; psychoanalysis; security and neuroscience; apps; coercive self-citation; mapping well-being; and nuggets from the Research Digest
Media
Fiona Jones on planned changes to the Society's media and press function; when Ariely met Gladwell; curiosities; and more
Book reviews
Mental models in the novel; modern CBT; dyslexia; House and psychology; and more
Society
President's column; sexual and gender minority guidelines; Big Bang; work-life balance; DSM-5; expert witnesses; Gordon Allport prize; and more
Careers and psychologist appointments
Working in Cambodia, with Angela Simcox; we speak to Kimberley Wilson at HMP Holloway; featured job
New voices
Counting on language in numerical thinking: Cassie Barton with the latest in our series for budding writers
Looking back
Learning disability: from the Devil to DSM-IV, with Chris Goodey
One on one
...with Carole Allan
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