challenging behaviour… It’s only behavioural! 30 Dec 201829 Dec 2018 Everything humans do is behavioural. There's no justification for using the label to hide our own inadequacies or laziness. https://youtu.be/zB8PAk21vc0
Stoicism for mental health… Boring stoics! 29 Dec 2018 Stoics are boring aren't they? Oh, no! There's nothing boring about Stoicism. There's nothing boring about embracing change, about opposing injustice or about developing self reliance. There's nothing boring about…
challenging behaviour… I don’t care: Belligerence and behavioural boundaries 17 Dec 2018 Sometimes the only way to protect the therapeutic relationship is temporarily to behave as though you have no concern whatsoever for the other person's point of view. This seems counter-intuitive and…
evolution… Hard wired 7: The evolutionary environment 26 Oct 201826 Oct 2018 What do we mean by EEA? The acronym 'EEA' stands for the 'Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation/Adaptiveness', otherwise known as the 'Evolutionary Environment' or the 'Ancestral Environment'. Originally coined by John…
evolution… Hard-wired 6: Why is anything hard-wired at all? 1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018 Back into the routine with the mental health YouTube channel. Here's the latest instalment of the evolutionary psychology series https://youtu.be/r3HML3nBUz0 Let’s be clear about just what ‘hard wired’ means. After…
human rights… New video channel: Left eye view 23 Aug 2018 I'm moving my political commentaries away from this channel and onto my new YouTube channel, 'Left eye view'. I'd love to see you there. You can visit and subscribe to…
politics… Socratic dialogue (the ‘Columbo’ technique 10 Aug 2018 Laura from YouTube asked me a question about how to change the minds of people who believe obvious nonsense like racists and Holocaust deniers. The best technique I know is…
evolution… Evolutionary psychology: The naturalistic and agency fallacies 6 Aug 20185 Aug 2018 Just because the theory of evolution by natural selection explains how we got to be the way we are, there's no reason to imagine it can tell us how we…
evolution… Evolutionary psychology video playlist 4 Aug 20181 Oct 2018 Here you will find my developing video playlist on evolutionary psychology. It's a long term project. Enjoy.
Stoicism for mental health… Stoics are boring aren’t they? 24 Jul 201824 Jul 2018 If you think Stoics are boring, you're not doing it right! There's nothing boring about Stoicism. There's nothing boring about embracing change, about opposing injustice or about developing self reliance.…
