Almost a third of people with major depressive disorder find that regular treatments, including anti-depressant drugs, or even electroconvulsive therapy, don't help. Now, a new year-long trial of a ...

Could simply making a promise to be honest encourage people to behave in an honest way, even when there's a temptation to lie? A recent study in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that it can — but the ...

Today (28 January) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance which outlines the psychological support needed for people impacted by gambling harms. The ...

In November 2024, the Mental Health Bill 2024 was first introduced; a huge step forward in fixing the often unequal and unfair measures in the Mental Health Act 1983. The Bill aims to reform the 1983 ...

We're pleased to announce that the May Davidson Early Career Award for 2024 has been given jointly to two exceptional clinical psychologists. It is a measure of their early career achievements that ...

I developed symptoms of long covid and ME/CFS in 2020, during my doctoral training. Rather than listen to my body, I numbed out and pushed through, determined to qualify as a clinical psychologist ...

We're all aware that jokes can serve as a distraction… they help us to think about something other than our hurt feelings, and in the short term, they can impair our memories, so we no longer remember ...

Both in and out of work, Kim was a person with great warmth and humour who loved the Arts and was a regular attender at music festivals. Her family, friends and colleagues are struggling to come to ...

Welcome to our first edition of 2025, we hope you find the updates and information useful. Following a decision late last year to issue the Workforce and Training Update as a separate newsletter, this ...

When the famed journalist and author Norman Cousins was diagnosed with a severe form of arthritis, his doctors gave him only 1 in 500 chance of recovery. Unfazed, he developed an unusual way to combat ...

The British Psychological Society has appointed a new Chair for its Research Board. Dr Richard Stephens, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Keele University, told us he is looking forward to his remit ...

I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, moved to the Isle of Man around five-years-old, and continued my schooling there. At A-level, or AS to be precise, I chose to study psychology because it ...