Professor Nick Haslam

School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Overcoming our psychological barriers to embracing AI

A new study highlights the best ways of addressing barriers to adopting AI and the risks and benefits involved

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Health & Medicine

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Knowing when to seek help for mental health

When challenges arise we may feel confused, but there are five signs to help us understand when to seek mental health support

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Health & Medicine

Do we think about anxiety and depression differently now?

A new study investigates whether there’s been concept creep around how we use the terms ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’

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Arts & Culture

Mental Health ≠ Wellbeing

There’s a growing tendency to link mental health and wellbeing as an inseparable conceptual couple, but the two concepts have very different connotations

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Health & Medicine

Is psychiatry shrinking what we think of as normal?

Concerns that normality is being medicalised by the inflation of psychiatric diagnosis criteria appear overblown – but some conditions do need scrutiny

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Health & Medicine

Can your personality be good, or bad, for your health?

The HILDA 2019 Survey finds intriguing links between dominant personality traits and the onset of serious illness – but it’s more likely to do with the behaviours linked to those traits

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Health & Medicine

Is Freud’s legacy fading?

Despite reports of the demise of psychoanalysis, in some parts of the world, Freud’s psychoanalytic ideas are alive and well

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Business & Economics

Treating depression to economically empower mothers

How a simple talking therapy empowers women with perinatal depression to make better economic decisions

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Business & Economics

The grim cycle of homelessness and unemployment

For many homeless people, the problem isn’t finding a job, it’s keeping it

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Health & Medicine

What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that’s a problem

Mindfulness, or focusing on the present moment to improve awareness, is all the rage in schools, workplaces, and medical clinics, but questions have been raised over how poorly it is defined and researched

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