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You Want Cute? You Can’t Handle Cute!
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Apparently, cute things are too much for our brains to handle.
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It Has to be Perfect
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Does this sentence make you cringe: “Sometimes when your driving you may notice your car does not seem to be performing at it’s best”? The more perfect you are, the better you are? Or are imperfections are the fingerprints of a human being who is getting things done that matter?
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Retail Therapy – what does shopping have to do with mood?
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Previous research has shown that compulsive buyers in part shop as a strategy to compensate for depressed mood. We conducted experiments to test whether compulsive buyers would pay more attention to products when feeling depressed, and whether compulsive buyers mentally associate products with emotions more than others do.
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What is the difference between a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist?
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A brief answer to what is probably the question I am most commonly asked in relation to being a psychologist: “What is the differences between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?”
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What is a psychologist?
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Can a psychologist read your mind? What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist? Isn’t psychology all just common sense?
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Wholemeal bread
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Food plays an important part in our physical and mental wellbeing. Here is a wholemeal bread recipe offering both the therapeutic benefits of cooking and the benefits of wholesome food.
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The pain inside
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“She’s just doing it for attention.” This is a phrase I have often heard from people trying to understand why a patient, a friend or a loved-one has been deliberately hurting themselves. Self injury goes against all our natural instincts of survival and self-protection. Unfortunately, the assumption often ends up being that a person…
