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Political Polarisation The 2020 US presidential election is now (sort of) over. Most people I know are happy with the outcome. They dislike the personality and...

Here is the next in my series on the most common psychological disorders in Australia. “I’m in tears after almost every shift”. Gareth is a 2nd...

I must first take myself aside and deliberate what advice I should give. For you yourself, before consulting me as you are doing, gave long thought...

Lamarck’s Revenge When I was young undergraduate in Biology 1001 my lecturer told we, the youthful bright-eyed audience, about the ludicrous, discredited evolutionary theory of Jean-Baptiste...

“I’ve always been a worrywart, always an overthinker”. Thomas had come to treatment at the strong urging of his wife. He had been made redundant several...

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now...

“to talk every day about virtue and the other things about which you hear me talking and examining myself and others is the greatest good to...

This is a continuation of my series on the most common psychological disorders in Australia. This list is drawn from the most recent National Survey of...

The third and final in my series of Schema Coping styles. To see Overcompensation and Counterattack and Avoidance, follow the links.   A human hunter manoeuvres...

Life injures us. None us escape life unscathed. Many clients of mine have had traumatic childhoods. Others have had non-traumatic childhoods (not dramatically traumatic at least)....

The size of the society you live in matters. Right now, on North Sentinel Island in a remote part of the Indian Ocean, the entire population...

The second in my series of Schema Coping styles. See Overcompensation and Counterattack here.   Life can be full of intense negative emotions. Our human organism...

Schema Therapy considers that unhelpful life patterns (schemas, life-traps) form due to inadequately met developmental needs. Someone who has not received secure attachments (due to parental...

Dev* acts as if he couldn’t care less. He’s just crashed out of his undergraduate degree after missing almost all of his tutorials.   Sara* has...

It’s the second anniversary of the Hendriks Psychology blog, and as is traditional, I’m giving a run down of the most popular blog posts. So, without...

Its been a funny old year, 2020. We had bushfires, water shortages and drought. Then Covid-19 hit, with all the deaths, anxiety and life changes. Then...

This is the 4th in my series of the most common psychological disorders in Australia. I’ve jumped the queue a bit with this one (actually should...

Attention: Paul habitually forgets to take the bins out on nights when his husband, Andy, works late. This inevitably leads to a fight. Love: Suzy criticises...