The key purpose of this blog/website on stress, health and wellbeing is to be helpful. It is written for various overlapping groups of people – clients who have come to see me for therapy, other health professionals, and interested members of the general public. I also write for myself – to explore and clarify my own thoughts and feelings.

There are four interacting information streams on this site. One is the blog and the archive of blog postings. Linked with this is the Good Knowledge database. Thirdly there is a searchable list of well over 200 useful health-related websites that I have stored in Del.icio.us. Fourthly there is a growing database of relevant research articles in Connotea that I add to from regular journal reading.

My name is James Hawkins. I’m an Edinburgh-based medical doctor & psychotherapist. I’ve been in practice since the mid-1970’s, and I’ve been fascinated by health & wellbeing for even longer than that. Click on the ‘introduction’ and ‘services’ pages on the top menu bar for more details.

I mostly write this blog early in the morning. It typically involves me commenting on the passing stream of emerging medical & psychological research that I read. Clicking on ‘research’ in the tag list, links both with a blog posting detailing the journals I scan, and monthly lists of research articles that I’ve found particularly interesting.

I also try to share occasional thoughts triggered by my clinical work, and by my own personal explorations of stress, health and wellbeing. Clicking on ‘clinical’ and ‘personal’ in the tag list links to relevant postings.