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James Dean was NOT cool
A successful, non-risk-taking, friendly and environmentally-aware cool person By Pat Kelly. An argument between two researchers led to an empirical analysis of what makes a person ‘cool’, with some...
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New ‘bible’ on psychology and spirituality
Dr Brendan Kelly reviews a magisterial tome that intertwines the psychological, physical and spiritual dimensions of care to great effect. There has always been a strong connection between psychology...
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Stay away from the light
A scene from the 1922 classic Nosferatu. Photo by SNAP/Rex Features Dr Laura Nagle, Clinical Research Fellow at St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, reflects this Halloween on the psychological...
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Thinking our way to societal transformation
Dr Brendan Kelly explores the power of mindfulness, a concept rooted in Hindu and Buddhist psychology that can help in certain cases of depression, substance misuse and anxiety, among others....
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The mind suffers…
Photo by Daniel Butowski / WestEnd61 / Rex Features By Pat Kelly. A study has found that people with attachment anxiety and stressful marriages could have compromised immune systems. Published in the...
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The ‘no-belly’ prize for weight loss?
Dr Emma Barry reviews a new book on losing weight which advocates using the ‘control tower’ — the brain — possibly a case of ‘ground control to major tum’. It is January again and the excessive...
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The Freud Project, Year Four: The Interpretation of Dreams
There is no question that there are dreams whose manifest content is of the most distressing kind Pic: 9nong/Getty In the fourth instalment in a rather ambitious 24-year project, Prof Brendan Kelly...
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Psychologist failed to maintain boundaries
Image: Getty Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent English High Court case in which the Court considered an appeal by a psychologist against a finding that she had not maintained professional boundaries...
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How to win the online dating game
Pic: pseudopixels As Valentine’s Day approaches, thousands out there are trying to lock down a date for the night. Online dating has its pitfalls, however, not least in portraying yourself to your...
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