Professor Nick Haslam
School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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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
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’
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
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
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
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
Business & Economics
Treating depression to economically empower mothers
How a simple talking therapy empowers women with perinatal depression to make better economic decisions
Business & Economics
The grim cycle of homelessness and unemployment
For many homeless people, the problem isn’t finding a job, it’s keeping it
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