October 2011
EVENT: Can Self Help Really Help You?
What are the best strategies to use if you want to improve your life? Do self-help books deliver, or are they full of empty promises? Can a book replace a trained counsellor? Psychologies columnists Philippa Perry and Oliver Burkeman addressed these tricky questions and discussed what to read, what to do and who to believe at Waterstone’s flagship store in Piccadilly, London.
Philippa Perry writes our monthly Casebook column and is the author of Couch Fiction. Oliver Burkeman is the author of Help! How To Become Slightly Happier And Get A Bit More Done and writes our monthly digest of classic self-help books.
October 2011
EVENT: Psychologies Film Club
The Help: Exclusive Screening and Conversation
In the second of our film club series, Psychologies columnist and academic Sarah Churchwell explored the social, political and emotional themes in the film adaption of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.
August 2011
EVENT: The Wilderness Festival (Friday 12 to Sunday 14 August)
The Wilderness Festival is a three-day event set in the estate of Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire that’s all about music, food, learning, literature and rejuvenation.
This year, Psychologies joined the esteemed line up as we hosted our own debate – Friendship In The Age Of The Internet – in the Intelligence Tent on the 13th of August. Deputy editor Clare Longrigg chaired the panel, which comprised of psychotherapist Emma Baskerville, technology journalist Zara Rabinowicz and Sarah Whitley, senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University. The age range of the audience was pleasingly wide, and views, perhaps predictably, were polarised between the younger age group, who accepted social media as a way of life, and the older, who were still assessing its usefulness and the perils it might bring.
June 2011
EVENT: Debate; The New Sex- Infidelity in the Age of the Internet
This was the first event in the New Sex series and it centered on the issue of infidelity. Professor Brett Kahr, author of Sex And The Psyche, chaired the debate, which included Times columnist Suzi Godson, journalist, broadcaster and author Tony Parsons and relationship and psychosexual therapist Marian O’Connor.
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