#Fatshaming: Pointing the Finger
Nutritional therapist Jeannette Hyde on what's going on with #fatshaming culture
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Is Masculinity A Cultural Myth?
Counsellor Chris Taylor shares his opinion on the cultural myth of masculinity: the dangerously damaging effects of exerting such pressure on men in society
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Stoicism: A Simplified Modern Guide
Author Donald Robertson provides a simplified modern guide on Stoicism, applicable to the everyday
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Is Your Brain Male or Female?
BBC Horizon's recent programme, “Is your brain male or female?” made a valiant yet narrow minded attempt at measure and reason.
I offer this blog to anyone who remains as riled as I by Michael Mosley’s acceptance of Simon Baron-Cohen’s carefully paired claim that, “The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems,” and, “The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy.”
The first evidence cluster is derived from animal behaviour. For example, male great apes engage in more play fighting than female great apes, and...
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Bare Reality: 100 Women and their Breasts
There has been so much public debate about breasts recently, from Free the Nipple to No More Page 3, from breastfeeding selfies on Facebook to Rihanna on the red carpet. I think the time has never been better to hear how women really feel about their breasts, and to see how they really look.
I have always been fascinated by the dichotomy between women’s personal lives and how they are depicted by the media; between how we feel about breasts privately and how they are presented for public consumption. We see images of breasts everywhere in the media and yet...
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Vincent Deary: Why Change is So Difficult
Author Vincent Deary discusses the difficulties of change and habit, and the release of his new book 'How We Are'.
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Men In Therapy: Why Are We Holding Back?
The times are changing, 'man-up' culture is becoming a thing of the past, so why are men still so severely under-represented in therapy asks Andrew Samuels.
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Does Religion Have a Role in Therapy?
Sarah Royle is surprised to find that religion is left out of client assessment tools, she argues that therapists must be aware of belief systems.
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Why Do Young British Men Become Jihadis?
The reasons why any young person leaves their home, family and friends to go and fight in a foreign country will always be complex to unravel. It does seem incomprehensible that someone who has been raised and educated in the UK with no history of violence would be willing to get involved in acts of unspeakable brutality and yet we are told that hundreds have made that choice. There are clearly powerful global forces in play and we need the input from political theory, theology, history, social science and of course psychology to make some sense of it. Yet, as a...
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We All Use Sexist Language, Women Too
Adjectives have now become the scapegoat for a sexist culture - these naughty words are seen to be drenched in misogyny. First “bossy” came under fire; now “feisty” is targeted. Forget feisty's positive meaning - apparently the fact that it is commonly used to describe women provides sufficient proof of bias and bad intent.
When I went through the list of additional 'women only' words presented in The Telegraph Wonder Woman, I felt the frisson of easy recognition that often accompanies what psychologists call the 'confirmation bias': it is much easier to think...
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