Interesting Articles/Research What are the psychological effects of losing your religion?  Facing our fears can actually overwrite traumatic memories Taking a placebo can reduce exam anxiety (even if you know it’s a placebo) What happens in the brains of those [...]

Existentialism, Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence: A full day of talks exploring the fascinating psychology of human emotions. Does changing how you think about an emotion, change the way you feel it? How? How can you use the latest research into [...]

How do traumatic events in early life affect you in later years? And how can you best heal from them? Why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in the 1960s, to around 370 [...]

Can you learn to ‘wake up’ and be conscious in your dreams? What does the latest neuroscience reveal about the connection between sleep, circadian rhythms, and mental health? How can Jungian Psychology help you interpret what your dreams mean? These [...]

This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Behaviour Change.’ In this series of talks, we’ll explore evidence-based approaches to behaviour change from psychotherapy, addiction treatment and existential positive psychology, to help you make changes that [...]

This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Depth Psychology’. In this series of talks, we’ll explore the key ideas of Freud, Jung and Adler, and examine them in light of modern, scientific research. Attendees will [...]

This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Psychotherapy’. In this series of talks, we’ll explore how psychedelics, music and meaning are being used in a therapeutic context to help people overcome psychological problems and live [...]

Mick Cooper is an internationally recognised author, trainer and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential and pluralistic therapies.  He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures [...]

The brain you’re reading this with has existed (in its current form) for about 200,000 years. For most of that time, we were hunter gatherers. The two hundred years that we've lived in cities, and the ten thousand years we’ve [...]

This month’s event at The Weekend University will be ‘A Day on Evolutionary Psychology.’ In this series of talks, we’ll examine human psychology and behaviour through the lens of modern evolutionary theory. Attendees will learn: - The foundations of evolutionary [...]