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New Member: Ruth Cooper-Dickson, BA (Hons), MA, MSc

A positive psychology practitioner and resilience, wellbeing and accredited trauma-informed coach, I work with individuals, global brands, and charities to help them thrive. Bringing with me many years of experience in Mental Wealth consultancy, accredited coaching and training, my work has taken me to diverse environments—from multinational corporates to refugee camps in the Greek Isles, and […]

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New Member Monique Harwood-Lynn

New Member: Monique Harwood-Lynn

Hello, INPM!  I consider myself fortunate to live, work and play on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. I returned to Canada 5 years ago after nearly 30 years living in the southwest tip of England, raising a family and working for the National Health Service as an Occupational Therapist (OT), mostly in community mental […]

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Featured Member: Karen Holtmaat

My name is Karen and I currently work as an assistant professor of psychosocial oncology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I am a member of the research group ‘living together with cancer’ in which we focus on quality of life and psychological well-being of cancer patients. We develop interventions aimed at improving self-management, […]

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Ground Breaking Perspective Provides a Simple yet Meaningful Solution to Suffering Brought About by the Pandemic

Pooja V. Anand

Posted Jun 15, 2021

The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic has created immense suffering around the world. Psychologists worldwide are trying to understand the mental health implications of the pandemic and are coming up with various ways and means to combat this suffering. Surprisingly, most of these approaches look at suffering as something to be avoided as it is ‘negative’. However, […]

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The Power of Music During a Global Pandemic

Tim Yu

Posted Jun 15, 2021

It is difficult to overstate the impact of music during times of hardship. Examples such as Shostakovich’s magnificent Leningrad symphony, the blues from the Mississippi Delta, and the three days of peace at the 1969 Woodstock festival show how music allows us to continue our individual or collective struggle, unite us under a single goal […]

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Understanding Pandemic Anxiety Allows Us to Transcend It

Geoff Thompson

Posted Jun 15, 2021

Psychologists featured in blogs and newscasts have focused on helping people ease their immediate struggles with anxiety. These experts publicize breathing techniques, diet, physical exercise, and sleep hygiene. They recommend getting together with friends and extended family over the internet. From this perspective, there isn’t much point to recommend more than basic cognitive-behavioral coping skills […]

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The Frankl Cure for the 21st Century: Why Self-Transcendence is the Key to Mental Health and Flourishing

Paul T. P. Wong

Posted May 24, 2021

Abstract             Viktor Frankl has the best answer to the mental health crisis during COVID-19, and we ignore him at our own peril. His dialectical and paradoxical self-transcendence (ST) model emphasizes that we can find our true self only by letting go of the old one. He defines meaning in terms of ST and propose […]

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MISCELLANY MARCH 2021

Posted Mar 20, 2021

Meaning Conference 2021 Register Now COVID-19 has killed more than 2.5 million people, devastated the world economy, and wreaked havoc on mental health globally. The challenges for psychologists are: How can we help people stay positive and become better and stronger? and How can we make the world a safer, kinder, and fairer place for […]

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Member: Jeremy Forsythe, BSc

Hello INPM community! My name is Jeremy Forsythe and I am thrilled to join this incredible research community. Let me tell you a bit about myself. In 2016, I earned my Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto. As an undergraduate, I developed an interest for studying all things psychology and philosophy. One topic that […]

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