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We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
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Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
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After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated mental health issues. Some are desperate for support to stop using substances, while others want to continue using drugs but reduce their risk of further harm. […]
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Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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Third edition of Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a major revision which was long overdue given that the second edition was published 20 years ago. That was around the same time I started working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the NHS. As the editor my motivation for the revision of this […]
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What was your very first “real” job? Maybe it came after high school or college, or maybe it came long before that. Maybe it aligned with your academic degree or credentials exactly, or, perhaps, it looked nothing like the work for which you thought you were preparing. For many of us, the transition into the […]
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Millions young people across the world grow up every day with some variation of violence affecting their lives. Millions more—sometimes the very same young people—may participate in that violence, even as many of their peers are also counteracting it and building a more peaceful world. Young people’s relationship to peace and violence is often talked […]
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