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Welcome to the Oliver James website. Oliver trained as a clinical psychologist and is an author and broadcaster. To find out more about his work, click on one of the tabs above.
Latest News
07/02/13
Oliver's new book Office Politics is out today if you want to find out more click here.
04/10/12
Oliver's new book Love Bombing – Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat is now available. For more infomation, visit www.lovebombing.info.
04/10/12
Oliver appears on the the Radio 4 PM programme, celebrating that the Alzheimers Society have finally accepted that the SPECAL method described in Contented Dementia is beneficial.
27/02/12
Upcoming Events with Oliver James
8.3.12 - KIDS COMPANY, contact jimwilde@hotmail.com
21.3.12 - JLA Market Researchers’ Conference, London, contact benarnold@jla.co.uk
22.3.12 A new Category of Child Abuse, conference in London, go the NCOFCA website for more details
24.3.12 - Oxford Literary Festival
20.5.12 - Regents College London to Childcare specialists, contact sarah@babycalm.co.uk
12.6.12 - Place2Be, contact peterjbwilson@btinternet.com
29.6.12 - Talk at Leeds Met Univ conference, Dominey, contact Sue S.Dominey@leedsmet.ac.uk
13.10.12 - Wells Literary Festival, contact sophie.rucker@virginmedia.com
28/04/11
Upcoming Events with Oliver James
Sunday 29th May 10.30 Am, How The Light Gets In Festival event on 'The Post Nuclear Family' : Buy Tickets
Monday 30th May: Hay Festival event on 'Creating a Sane Society', 7pm
Tuesday 31st May: Hay Festival event 'Edward St Aubyn talks to Oliver James' 1pm
Wednesday 1st June: Hay Festival event: Oliver James, Cassandra Jardine, Judith Woods and Victoria Woodhall on 'How to Manage Big Family Issues of the 21st Century' 6.45pm
03/11
Oliver does With Great Pleasure for Radio4, a half hour programme picking his favourite books
06/01/10
The revised and updated edition of Britain on the Couch is published tomorrow and puts capitalism in the dock like never before. Visit the book page to find out more
03/08/2009
Penny Garner, SPECAL and Contented Dementia are covered in The Times
20/07/2009
Lord Mccoll, shadow health spokesman, commends Oliver's book Contented Dementia in a House of Lords debate on dementia as 'the only management method which seems to confer contentment
07/07/2009
Look out for Oliver James' Contented Dementia out in trade paperback on August 6th. You can pre-order it from Amazon, Rbooks or any good book retailer.
04/06/2009
The European Institute of Design in Italy has made a 2 minute trailer for The Selfish Capitalist. Clip below:
02/03/2009
Oliver comments on the credit crunch on the Today Programme and in the Sunday Times and Guardian
11/02/2009
Oliver demands an apology for neoliberalism on Newsnight from politicians Theresa May (Tory) and Tony Macnulty (Labour)
04/01/2009
Affluenza was featured as the Radio 4 Bookclub book of the month today. Listen to the broadcast on the BBC website.
22/11/2008
Oliver has started a weekly column in the Guardian Family section on Saturdays. Click here to read his latest articles.
18/11/2008
If you would like to get in touch with Oliver, you can e-mail him at Oliver.James@eburypublishing.co.uk
11/08/2008
New Contented Dementia articles and multimedia are now online.
29/07/2008
If you missed out on Oliver's sold out Selfish Capitalist talks earlier this year, you can now watch them on the Selfish Capitalist multimedia page.
07/07/2008
Oliver's new book, Contented Dementia, is out on August 7th. Find out more about it here.
07/07/2008
Watch Oliver's appearance on the Politics Show
31/05/2008
Guy Dammann reviews Oliver's appearance at the Hay Festival
17/04/2008
New content now available on Affluenza and Selfish Capitalist.
30/03/2008
Oliver talks about his childhood in Cornwall.
07/02/2008
Oliver appeared on the Sky Arts programme The Books Show to talk to Mariella Frostrup about the Affluenza virus. Watch the clip here.
04/02/2008
Oliver will be appearing on the BBC4's Late Edition Live this Wednesday at 10:30pm.
His next talk will be at the Glasgow Book Festival on the 15th of March. For full details of this and other upcoming events, visit the calendar.
