Social Researcher Stephen McMurray (@StephenMcMurray) analyses the role of psychology in the UK’s welfare system, finding that increasing use of psychological techniques is connected to the rise in benefit sanctions which has driven poverty and exclusion
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine says that the assumption that the First Minister has a fully-formed indy strategy is a product of the independence movement’s cognitive biases
AT THE moment I spend a lot of my time answering emails, talking to people at events, being quizzed by activists who spot me in the supermarket...the question is asked in different ways and with a spectrum of profanity, but its basically the same question: “What's going on?”
Dale Todd, a positive psychology practitioner based in Glasgow and CommonSpace reader, gives his take on CommonSpace’s special week of coverage on the mental heallth crisis. You can give yours by emailing ben@common.scot.
We can’t fight away our flaws, so what can we achieve if we take a more compassionate stance towards ourselves? Clinical psychologist Dr Simon Stuart takes a look
SHOULD, must, need to: whenever I find myself using these words, I gently try to remind myself that I’ve probably got stuck.
