Most people feel self-conscious about their body from time to time, but if intense concerns about the way you look start impacting on everyday life, you could be suffering from body dysmorphic disorder. By Angela Tufvesson for Australian Unity. When Ennalies was 18 years old, she became fixated with her nose. But this obsession was [...]
With demand for professional help to "digital detox" on the rise, experts are examining our "addiction" to social media. Article published in The Age 1nd July 2015, by Katie Cincotta New research from the University of California at Los Angeles concludes that even in our downtime we are wired to be social, which may explain [...]
Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas interviews Dr Ben Buchanan, warning that a surge in the number of men using steroids to enhance their bodies, and development of depression or eating disorders down the line.
Published in The Age 4th December 2014. By Katie Cincotta What social media is doing to our brain is akin to what it’s doing to our phones – constantly running in the background, draining our charge and making us less responsive. Social media has been accused of wiping away our table manners; diners seated with [...]
See the original article in the Northern Star Weekly. A South Morang-based clinical psychologist has backed a council-led push for more co-ordinated mental health services in the City of Whittlesea. Dr Ben Buchanan, a clinical psychologist at the Plenty Valley Community Health-based Victorian Counselling and Psychological Services, said good mental health services weren’t available for [...]
Written by Harriet Edmund and Published in Women’s Health and Fitness, August 2014. Click here for full article. Intelligence. capacity for understanding; aptitude in grasping truths, facts, meaning, etc. The Macquarie Dictionary is a good place to start this report – after all, discussing contextual characteristics of something demands a fundamental definition, right? And since psychology [...]
Finding time for peace and quiet brings many rewards, writes Lindy Alexander in The Age's Daily Life. See original article here. Silence is golden, or so the saying goes. We have never been more connected to each other, but as the hours we are contactable and available increase, our desire for silence also grows. A [...]
Printed in The Age 23/4/14 -- Read here -- Men who kill their children do so to punish the mother, experts say, with the final act of revenge often punctuating a history of domestic violence. The children are a proxy by which they're getting back at the mother. Even in cases where there have not [...]