Better Living Through Psychology

If you were planning to attend the “Learning ACT” training program, unfortunately I have had to cancel it due to insufficient enrolments.
This also means that the supervision group will not be meeting.
There are no plans right now for the supervision group to be restarted (not by me anyway - if you want to run [...]

Many clients wonder why I so frequently ask them questions about how the session was, whether we are on the right track, whether there’s anything I did or said that didn’t work for them, and so on. Some also wonder whether it’s really worth the effort to record their session ratings. (I use a session [...]

Take a look at this article from MSNBC:
Placebo’s power goes beyond the mind
For years, scientists have looked at the placebo effect as a nuisance - just a figment of overactive patient imaginations. People who got a dummy medication as part of a clinical trial believed they were better, but really weren’t. But new research shows [...]

A woman’s sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship, according to research. Researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex. Conversely, the team found a man’s libido remained the same regardless of how long he had been in a [...]

…you’re getting more sleep than you think you are. Allison Harvey and Nicole Tang of Oxford University showed in one experiment that people with primary insomnia underestimate the total amount of sleep they get and overestimate how long it takes them to fall asleep. This suggests that maybe it’s not so much the amount of [...]