Psychology

I am hungover and am going to take you through the emotional journey that is watching the new Tony Robbins documentary. This means watching it again. While hungover. I am doing this for you so you don't have to. For a long time, I…

'Sorry, could you not ask me two questions at the same time?' my friend Dorothy implores, looking frustrated. She hasn't had an easy time of it, but despite that, she is not one to wallow or complain or put up with people asking her two…

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” Shannon L. Alder You've heard of Psychotherapy. And you've heard of Counselling.…

'Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so' - William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Unhelpful, intrusive thoughts are debilitating and none of us is spared. My favourite one to say sadly…

When you think about psychology, you probably don't think about gut microbiota or taking saliva samples. But that's exactly what Andrew Allen, senior postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Psychiatry at University College Cork,…

'Who is going to complain about rape jokes? Rape victims? They barely even report rape.'  Sarah Silverman I agree with comedian George Carlin, who said that 'anything can be funny, it all depends on how you construct the joke'. …

The best thing I learnt while I was studying Psychology was about all of our  cognitive biases. There are loads of them. These 'mental shortcuts' operate mainly unconsciously, and, although the word 'bias' pings with negative connotations,…

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change”             - Carl Rogers. A few years ago I got a phone call from a friend who had seen irrefutable evidence that my boyfriend at the time was…