Praise for Choose Compassion
Watch James’s Interview With Professor Paul Gilbert OBE
You can listen to James here
Today I spoke with Edwin Rutsch, Director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, about how to define #empathy, how it can be regulated #wisely, and how it can be enacted such that the target feels heard and understood.
A complete honour to be giving the Kurt Aaron Oration for 2025 as part of the PAH Health Symposium. This year the theme is, “Innovation, inspiration and creation: It starts with a spark”. 26-29 August 2025 @UQHealth
Hope is profoundly important, not least predicting better physical and psychological outcomes for people. Here’s a clip from my conversation with Prof Bill Miller all about hope even at times of fear or despair.
Bill Miller on Why Hope Matters Most
🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @JAMANetworkOpen on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology. w/ @hadarfisher and linked to excellent paper by @WhitneyRingwald @aidangcw & team. Link -> https://tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
Almost 25% of 16- to 24-year-olds (24.6%), and almost one third of young women (31.7%) report having self-harmed in latest APMS study: @McManusSally