Dr Graham Wilson – 'The Confidant'
Working behind the scenes, helping people of power see themselves, situations, and others differently
“I never know quite how to introduce myself…” “People never seem prepared to listen to me when it’s my turn to explain what I do…” […]
This month, I’m involved in helping run a summer school in Oxford, the Adaptation Academy, for senior staff involved in climate adaptation projects. My strand […]
In his book, “Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else”, published in 2008, Geoff Colvin presented an extraordinarily well researched argument […]
The RSA has just published a report entitled; “Beyond the Big Society – Psychological Foundations of Active Citizenship”. You can download it here: http://www.thersa.org/projects/social-brain/beyond-the-big-society. It’s a fascinating read, making a …
A new and quite extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, scientific study of cyclothymia has shown that it can be cured using a powerful combination of two different […]
Very reasonably, a couple of people have raised an eyebrow at the statistics I quoted in my blog items over the last couple of days […]
Thank you all for the positive comments both public and private around my article, published yesterday, about Catherine Zeta-Jones and bipolar disorder. My own particular […]
Catherine Zeta-Jones is one of many creatives to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but what is it? Imagine that you have three states of being […]
From casual violence to genocide, acts of cruelty can be traced back to how the perpetrator identifies with other people, argues psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. Is […]
If you haven’t already seen it, you might like to watch the BBC documentary series, The Beauty of Diagrams. The first episode is on the […]
