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The article discusses the psychology behind public support for war and the need to understand this phenomenon in order to prevent future conflicts. The author, Jim Orford, who is a psychologist, explores his personal interest in war and how people seem to embrace and support it. He examines various factors that contribute to war support, such as military-style games, propaganda, and the role of war memorials. Orford also discusses the influence of gender, cognitive bias, and religion on war support. He concludes by calling for a more critical and anti-war psychology within the field. [Extracted from the article]

In my psychological vulnerability, I willingly agreed to undergo their aversion therapy "treatment" of sexual deviations in order to divert my lesbianism to heterosexuality. The paper presents the findings of their study of the history of aversion therapy as a treatment technique used in the English mental health system to convert lesbians and bisexual women into heterosexual women. In the mid 1960s I was training to be a clinical psychologist and spent my final practical placement at a hospital in Manchester where there was a treatment programme using aversion therapy for homosexuality - a form of conversion therapy. I was unaware that the "treatment" programme was to be the subject of a series of academic articles and in 1971, edited in a book by Feldman and MacCulloch entitled Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment. [Extracted from the article]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article regarding the section in British Psychological Society for Psychology in Defence and Security as vehicle for support of militarism.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article by Dave Harper and colleagues regarding a call for the Society to oppose legislation related to psychology such as the privatization plan of the Great Britain National Health Services (NHS).

A letter to the editor is presented regarding the cancellation of the conference Psychology and Human Rights that was scheduled in November 2006.

Believes that most British psychologists do not want prescription rights. Need to acknowledge the contextual influences of psychology on health and well-being; Ideological locations where psychology can do good; Possible split in the discipline resulting from prescription rights.