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In The Gift of Sensitivity – The extraordinary power of emotional engagement in life and work, author and advocate for human emotional potential, Elena Amber offers new perspectives on what it means to be a human in an age of AI. She talks to Nicola Banning about her research, how she came to write her book, and why the world needs our hidden gifts of sensitivity more than ever. BACP Workplace, April 2024.

Janet Toulson Sayers looks back on more than 50 years as an NHS psychologist. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2023

Judgment is a factor in both cognitivist and psychoanalytic theory and, rather than standing poles apart, a cognitivist and a Freudian perspective have something of value to offer each other, argues Neill Bartlett. Private Practice, June 2023

How what you’ve told us shapes the services we provide and the work we do.

'…we all have a deep need to work together, to share, compare, admire, critique, explore, learn.' Private Practice, March 2023

'…it could be argued that supervision has some of the potential markings of a pyramid scheme, where the revenue is always travelling upwards'. Regular column from Mish Seabrook. Private Practice, June 2023

Let's talk about death and dying Plus... Muslim identities: Understanding mental health in Muslim communities... Held hostage: The metaphor of a kidnapper can help clients with OCD... Delusion and reality: How to work with the beliefs of a psychotic patient

Listening in the cracks: Foluke Taylor in conversation with Sarah Van Gogh... Boredom: creativity’s nemesis... The importance of regular reviews in supervision... Living with the fallout of cancer

Workplace matters

Abuse can take many forms and anyone can be a victim. BACP member Natasha Clewley explains what is abuse and how counselling can help.