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Edited by Jill Wright,
The insights offered by Dr Pauline Chen's New York Times Doctor and Patient blog post about the extraordinary benefits for burnt-out physicians of a course of mindfulness training are a must read for anyone suffering from the emotional, mental and physical symptoms of a condition that is all too common these days. Dr Chen drew her observations from two studies...
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The op-ed column in the New York Times this week drawing attention to "psychotherapy's image problem" is something that deserves similar attention in this country. It's not your conventional image problem: as the author, Brandon A. Gaudiano, points out, psychotherapy has proved itself in numerous peer-reviewed studies to be more effective than drugs in relieving the most common mental health...
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As I mused recently in my post about the inordinate interest some psychologists demonstrate about behaviour in drinking places, I often wonder what it is that motivates research psychologists to pursue a particular topic. This week, for instance, comes news of a US study which revealed that the expressionless faces poker players try to develop to avoid revealing that they...
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Psychology Melbourne is continually impressed by the quality of the work done by the Black Dog Institute. This month, for instance, it is promoting Exercise Your Mood month, aimed at convincing Australians that regular exercise is good not only for the body, but also for the mind. You might want to have a look at the video and the comments from...
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It's too bad Australian office managers and architects and designers don't generally listen to overseas radio programs, because in missing out on a BBC Radio 4 program called In Search of the Perfect Office, presented by Claudia Hammond, they lost the opportunity to discover just how much their choice of materials and use of space were costing them, in terms...
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Psychologists tend to have mixed views of hypnosis. On the one hand, Sigmund Freud used it with his early patients as he developed his theories on the unconscious, before switching to free association and "the talking cure". On the other hand the decidedly unprofessional antics of stage hypnotism make many psychologists more than a little wary. As the American Psychological...
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All the members of the team of Melbourne psychologists with expertise in relationships have a lot of respect for the work of John Gottman, and the insights he gained working in the so-called "love lab" at the University of Washington. Over at Psyblog, Jeremy Dean obviously shares that respect. He has posted on "The Four Things That Can Kill A Relationship Stone...
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We couldn't help hoping, reading an article in one of the weekend newspapers this morning about the devastating effects on business of unresolved workplace conflicts - they can chew up 20 to 30 per cent of managers' and supervisors' time - that the Australian Psychological Society's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program gets the enthusiastic support of Australian employers. The fact is...
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Helping businesses sort out thorny issues is all in the day's work for Psychology Melbourne's corporate psychologists. Here's one that was tossed up by The Age yesterday: "Should someone resign when an office romance turns toxic?" One of our corporate experts, Warrick Arblaster, was able to tell the journalist just how common the issue of office relationships is - between...
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There's something quite arresting about the latest post in the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog, which details the results of research carried out by Michael Parks, R.B. Felsom, D.K. Osgood and K. Graham from Penn State University's Department of Sociology and Criminology into the precise conditions under which bystanders were likely to intervene in bar-room brawls. The team trained...