Volume 19 - Part 7 - (July 2006)
Understanding personality disorder
As the Society publishes a new report, Christian Jarrett takes a look at causes and treatments.
Page Numbers: 402-404
Romania's children
Emma Gore Langton, winner of the undergraduate category of our student writer competition, on the mutually beneficial relationship between psychology and children abandoned in institutions.
Page Numbers: 412-413
Clowning about in brain scanners
Craig Aaen-Stockdale, winner in the postgraduate category, on how psychologists have found their playful side to shed light on the plasticity of the brain.
Page Numbers: 414-416
The science of body metrics
Philip Treleaven, Adrian Furnham and Viren Swami on a new area with implications for psychological research.
Page Numbers: 416-419
20 years at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit
Caroline Watt outlines the continuing influence of the Edinburgh unit on the field.
Page Numbers: 424-427
Scientific tales from America
Christian Jarrett reports from New York, host to the 18th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science (formerly the American Psychological Society).
Page Numbers: 420-423
President's column
President Ray Miller reflects on the benefits of hindsight.
Page Numbers: 395
News
Improving access to therapes; infant crying and sleeping problems; DSM and drug companies plus men's mental health and more.
Page Numbers: 396-401
letters
Scientist practitioners - the model and the reality; globalisation; extreme pornography; A level; postal wastage and more
Page Numbers: 406-411
Book reviews
Double Dutch, comedy, tragedy and psycho-babbling for beginners.
Page Numbers: 428-430
students
Peter Branney on overseas fieldwork - Supervisors, funding and ingenious pigs
Page Numbers: 433
Society
Marking 10 years of promoting clinical effectiveness, quality and outcomes, fellowship citation for Professor Mark Griffiths plus news on what you think of the Psychologist.
Page Numbers: 434-437
Media
Reassessing Freud's legacy
Page Numbers: 456
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