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In response to the British Psychological Society’s call to include transgender people in the current ban on conversion therapy, it is important to be clear here as to which conversion therapy we are talking about… Read more

While watching a powerpoint presentation on a study day at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre some years ago, I took exception to a cartoon which appeared on a particular slide showing a grey haired old… Read more

I have just learned that AG-D has been ‘cancelled’ by Cambridge University Students Union. I cannot think of a greater demonstration of the fact that there is much heat and little light in our intellectual… Read more

I’m very much enjoying being an Open University student once more, reading the second year of my Masters in Philosophy. I’ve been reading a lot in order to find a research topic that really grabs… Read more

I I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.I am lost … I am hopeless.It isn’t my fault.It takes forever to find a way out. II I walk… Read more

Dear editor In May of this year, I published an article in Therapy Today entitled Understanding Chronic Pain. In it, I describe chronic pain as caused in part by changes in the sensitivity of our central nervous system.… Read more

I’m happy to say that I have an article published in May’s edition of Therapy Today entitled ‘Understanding Pain’. Please read it and let me know what you think? Read more

A little before Christmas, Andrew Copson and Alice Roberts, Chief Executive and President of Humanists UK respectively, hosted an online discussion following the publication in 2020 of their new book entitled The Little Book of… Read more

Thank you, thank you, and thank you again.  Thank you for that smile of quiet rage: the mischievous melancholy that – God knows – my own father lacked. You taught me the meaning of injustice, a… Read more

  Whatever is going on right now… What’s happening? Give yourself a moment to acknowledge that you’re struggling right now. See if you can notice what you’re feeling in your body; any tightness or breath-holding.… Read more