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Edited by Jill Wright,
As I was out for my morning walk today I was overtaken by several youngsters on scooters and skateboards. They were on their way to school, and they were clearly happy with the prospect. It's a scene that must be duplicated many thousands of times every morning, all over Melbourne. Child psychologists love to see that sort of thing, because...
At Psychology Melbourne we've put a lot of effort over many years into helping clients learn how to manage their anger, with individual anger counselling and highly effective, affordable separate anger management classes for men and for women (because each experiences anger differently). The most recent of those classes ended recently, and will be repeated shortly. We've been advising clients for...
Edited by Jill Wright,
As I was out for my morning walk today I was overtaken by several youngsters on scooters and skateboards. They were on their way to school, and they were clearly happy with the prospect. It's a scene that must be duplicated many thousands of times every morning, all over Melbourne. Child psychologists love to see that sort of thing, because...
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What an interesting week. As the Prime Minister pledged more consultations and "good government", including a fresh look at savings on health spending, on Wednesday evening I attended a lecture at the State Library by visiting Danish medical researcher Professor Peter Gøtzsche, who as founder of the Nordic Cochrane Centre is devoted to establishing the scientific evidence for medical research....
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I've just started reading British cognitive neuroscientist Christian Jarrett's Great Myths of the Brain which debunks a good deal of the often dangerous junk that has sprung from bad neuroscience. These myths range from the common fallacy that we only use 10 per cent of our brains, that children are "left-brained" or "right-brained" - and accordingly pushed into different education...
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The team of business psychologists spends a lot of time helping companies assess individual personality styles and the way people fit into a workplace team. I'm surprised that a lot more individuals don't take advantage of this sort of service, because the knowledge you gain from an objective view of your own traits and how you can avoid conflict and...
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Now might be a good time for a little social networking self-analysis. According to University of Melbourne psychologists and their counterparts at the University of Pennsylvania, social media can serve as a litmus test of community wellbeing. Their research, published in the journal Psychological Science, showed that Twitter tweets act as a psychological barometer, allowing them to predict elevated risks...
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What exactly does clinical depression feel like? And would you know it if you had it? That's the question raised in a fascinating personal insight into the experience of depression in The Guardian, by a freelance writer, Rin Hamburgh. Despite the fact that her father was bipolar and her sister had been diagnosed with depression a decade earlier, Hamburgh suffered...
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One of the newly emerging areas of research that I'm curious about is geographical psychology, which studies the links between people's environment and their personality and feelings. Cambridge University lecturer, Dr Peter Rentfrow has recently published a book on the topic which I'm saving up for ($US45.54 for a Kindle book is pretty steep). My interest has been stimulated by...
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One of the traditions we've established with our grandchildren when they stay with us overnight is to take them down to the local children's bookshop - which happens to be quite close to Psychology Melbourne's Centre for Child and Family Care - and buy them a book of their choice. We follow that up with a bedtime reading. Our aim...