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The Psychologist Vol 27 No 1 January 2014

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Contents

The Francis Report into the treatment and care failings in Mid Staffordshire will, we all hope, lead to the kinds of changes to systems and practices that will ensure nothing of this sort can easily happen again. In our cover story article (p.16) Narinder Kapur outlines how psychological research can inform discussion of many key areas that the report from the public inquiry draws attention to. He calls on psychology as a profession to rise to the challenge and help bring about change for the better.

At the risk of seeming to indulge in bathos, I'd just like to mention the change (for the better, we hope you agree) to this contents page, now technically a contents spread. It should be self-explanatory. Readers' views are welcome as ever.

Elsewhere in this issue we have an eclectic mix of articles - on wishful seeing, homophobia, parental alienation, and the surprising erstwhile popularity of lobotomy, not to mention hearing about Chris French's fire-walking ambitions. Just glance to the left and you'll see where to find it all.

Peter Dillon-Hooper
Acting Editor

Features

Mid Staffordshire Hospital and the Francis Report
Narinder Kapur asks what psychology has to offer

Wishful seeing
Emily Balcetis outlines research on how desires and motivations change perceptions

New voices: Parental alienation - time to notice, time to intervene
Sue Whitcombe looks at broken child-parent relationships and the damage they can cause

Reports

News
Typhoon Haiyan; event reports from the Psychology4Students and Psychology4Graduates days; and much more

Society
President's column; journals report; and more

Careers
Alana James reports from a 'Getting Published and Planning Your Career' workshop

 

Letters

Treating drug and alcohol dependency; finding a job; parallel texts and literacy; 'Forum' columns on stress in sport and the dangers of consumer crowds; and more

Digests

Macbeth effect; effectiveness of headlines; language and brain lateralisation

...meets

An anomalistic psychologist
Chris French tells Lance Workman about his journey into weird stuff

Careers
We talk to health psychologist Vanessa Bogle

One on one
with Fehmidah Munir, Senior Lecturer at the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University

Reviews

Eye on fiction: Capturing the experience of homophobia
Martin Milton on the coming-of-age novel Moffie set in apartheid South Africa

Also...
Tthe usual mix of books and other media reviews, including the psychodynamics of film discussed in a review of Visible Mind: Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious

...looks back

Interpreting lobotomy - the patients' stories
Physician and historian of medicine Mical Raz examines the reasons why the procedure was once so popular, with patients and physicians alike

10 years ago
Go to www.thepsychologist.org.uk for our archive, including Steve Newstead's 'Time to make our mark' article on improving the reliability and validity of student assessment (January 2004)

Big picture

Centre-page pull-out researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University have been investigating the benefits of gardening activity for physical and psychological health in later life

 

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