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Music therapy offers a flexible and accessible way of supporting wellbeing and addressing traumatic experiences.
The international Hearing Voices Movement has spent the past decades campaigning to destigmatise a surprisingly common phenomenon.
Psychological debriefing usually involves counsellors providing survivors with a single counselling session soon after an event. But ‘talking through’ trauma can over-consolidate painful memories.
Sometimes you have to let your friends know when they’ve made a bad choice in life but there’s a way to go about it.
Those who seek power for the sake of power are less attracted to high office when more people get a say.
Channel 9’s program Parental Guidance has been pitting 12 different types of parenting against each other to work out which is ‘best’.
Based on years of studying the science of emotions, a new book by Dacher Keltner makes the case for the life-affirming power of awe.
Stimulants such as Ritalin and modafinil have a reputation as off-label ‘smart drugs’ that boost cognitive performance. New research suggests they have the opposite effect.
A new theory of desire bridges the gap between psychoanalysis and queer theory on a quest to make a science out of sexuality.
It can be overwhelming deciding what kind of psychological therapy will be the best option for you, particularly if you’ve never sought therapy before.
A number of theories try to explain how cultural differences come to be. A new study quantifies how such factors as resource abundance, population density and infectious disease risk can contribute.
Do competitive, market-like interactions encourage immoral behaviour? A study of 18,000 people in 45 experiments shows there’s no simple answer.
One in three wrongfully convicted women were convicted of crimes that involved harming children. Once pardoned or exonerated, they experienced significant psychological and practical challenges.
How you tell the story of a momentous event can help you make sense of what happened. Research finds new moms’ and dads’ narratives around childbirth held clues about their transition to parenthood.
Audiences love improvised, off-the-cuff entertainment, and new research suggests it’s because spontaneity seems to offer a glimpse of the performer’s authentic self.
Researchers have identified ways to have more productive conversations – even when you’re talking to someone who holds an opposite view.
We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.
The book is a hard read and some say the play is an even harder watch - is it just trauma porn?
Research highlights at least six different motivations for perpetrators that commit arson.
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