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Welcome to the Oliver James website. Oliver is a clinical psychologist, author and broadcaster. To find out more about his work, click on one of the tabs above.
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09/06/10
Read the Pros and Cons of Daycare
08/06/10
Oliver complained to the BBC Trust that he was unprofessionally interviewed by Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour on 27th May. Listen to the encounter and make up your own mind! Also provided are the readers' letters which Woman's Hour subsequently read out, mostly supporting Oliver. He received over 30 emails supporting him and objecting to Murray's tone and methods. Listen to what Oliver really believes about parenting in his contribution to Radio 4's Between Ourselves in April 2010, provided here
22/05/10
Would you pass the good mother test? Read the How Not to F*** Them Up serial in the Times Online.
29/04/10
A brand new book by Oliver James is published on June 3rd, 2010. Visit the How Not to F*** Them Up book page to find out more.
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.
