Literature-based reading on relationships, identity, culture and emotional wellbeing. Each overview brings together academic research and psychological perspectives, with sources linked throughout.
6 blog posts
Life abroad & culture
A research-informed guide to loneliness, identity and emotional adjustment after moving to the Netherlands, with questions to help you understand your own experience.
Relationships & attachment
Explore anxious attachment, worries about closeness and reassurance, and what research can—and cannot—tell us about patterns in adult relationships.
Personality & therapy
How therapy can explore recurring patterns of identity, emotion and relationships, with clear distinctions between personality, formulation and diagnosis.
Adolescence
Understand peer influence beyond the idea of bad friends: how belonging, boundaries and online group dynamics can be discussed with teenagers without dismissing them.
Sexuality & intimacy
A grounded overview of sexual difficulties, including desire, arousal, orgasm and pain, and how physical, emotional and relationship contexts fit together.
Emotions & wellbeing
Why worry can become part of a difficult sleep pattern, how sleep pressure adds another layer, and what else belongs in a careful conversation about sleep.
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