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20111209 the psychologist

the psychologist october 2011
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French lessons, by Lucy Maddox

I was in France recently, to climb up a mountain, and on the way back I was transfixed in the airport shop by the amount of psychology-related magazines that had there. Psychology seems to be voraciously consumed in the French media, for reasons I'm not clear on(although perhaps I'll convince The Psychologist to fund an exploratory trip to find out.)

Psychologies magazine organized in France but has spread its reach across La Manche. I spoke to Rebecca Alexander, Dossier Editor. She told me about several psychotherapist and psychologist contributors in this month's edition. 'This issue has articles from Lucy Beresford, a psychotherapist who does a dilemma page every month. The idea is people write to someone actually qualified with a difficult problem. We also have Ros Taylor, clinical psychologist, writing about finding your inner leader, and Dominique Picard, professor of social psychology in Paris, writing about daring to have difficult conversations.' Rebecca Alexander thought that psychologists brought unique skills to the magazine. 'Readers appreciate hearing direct from the experts. There is generally a real interest in what psychologists have to say...There is so much comment available, on Twitter for example, which is not really informed. Readers like psychologists because they are experts in their area and may have been studying it for 10 to 15 years.'...

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December 9, 2011, Friday,
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