Body-focused repetitive behaviours Blog Posts

• The role of shame in hairpulling: understanding adolescents’ experiences

  19 Jun 2026

  • Courtney Taylor Browne Luka

  
• Skin-picking as self-soothing: is emotion regulation the missing piece?

  30 Mar 2026

  • Daisy Cutting

  
• What lies beneath hair-pulling and skin-picking behaviours? The role of early maladaptive schemas

  07 Jan 2026

  • Laura Lee

  
• Inside the urge: Interoception, affective touch, and the emerging science of skin-picking disorder

  05 Dec 2025

  • Marta Isibor
  • and Nina Higson-Sweeney

  
• The inescapable role of stigma in driving depression and distress

  21 Mar 2025

  • Mallory Moore