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 [...]
This newspaper article published by Fairfax (The Age and Sydney Morning Herald) found here. A significant number of people seeking cosmetic surgery for a lumpy nose or misshapen mouth actually suffer from complex brain abnormalities. They are perfectly fine on the outside, but their brains are telling them they're ugly - and, in many cases, [...]
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 [...]
- Published in The Age's Digital life. Full text - The young girl's collarbone juts forward, her ribcage taut and exposed like the withered bones of a sunken vessel, more threatening than sensual in this body display known as the ''bikini selfie''. Social networks have acted to try to minimise harmful behaviours by their users, [...]
- Article published on ninemsn.com.au (click here) - Desiring a golden glow is hardly unusual, but doctors say they are increasingly seeing people who have crossed the line to the point of addiction. Usually the result of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), tanning addicts ignore skin cancer warnings to excessively tan, [...]
This article first published on SBS.com.au, click here for full article Children react to death in a different way to adults, says a psychologist who believes people should not avoid the oval where Luke Batty died. Children who witnessed the killing of 11-year-old Luke Batty at a Melbourne oval could re-enact the event as a [...]