Dr. Lucy Maddox is a consultant clinical psychologist, lecturer, and writer passionate about sharing psychological insights. Through her work with children, teenagers, and their caregivers, she focuses on how early experiences shape our identity and behavior. Her writing, featured in prominent publications, explores the complexities of child development and mental health. Maddox aims to make psychology accessible to a wider audience, offering valuable perspectives on how our childhood makes us who we are.
Exploring the dynamics between plantation life and the broader context of early America, this book delves into the lives of the people of Rose Hill. It reveals how their experiences reflect the complexities of social, economic, and cultural interactions during that era, offering a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in history.
From birth to adulthood, Blueprint tells you what you need to know about how you become who you are, weaving together cutting edge research, everyday experience and clinical examples.
Exploring and explaining the range of mental health, from wellbeing through to mental health problems, in a non-stigmatising, accessible and accurate way
Psychology underpins everything we do, determining the decisions we make, the relationships we build, the roles we play and the places we live, and our behaviour is further influenced by the changing seasons, encouraging many of us to fall into unhelpful patterns again and again each year. In A YEAR TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, consultant clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox explains how psychological processes thread through our lives, pinpointing those issues most frequently encountered in each month, and shows us how by reflecting upon past experiences, both joyful and painful, and considering evidence-based ideas from the realm of psychology, we can learn to live a more thoughtful, positive life that better prepares us for the future. From the tendency to lack motivation in January and to experience red-hot anger in the heat of August, to the weight of expectation associated with that back-to-school feeling in September and the pressure to enjoy the December holiday season, we're shown recognisable features of behaviour over the course of the year. In sharing with us the most useful psychology ideas the author has learned in her 15 years as a clinical psychologist - ones she uses i