The eating cure
Forget drugs - diet is the way forward in treating mental illness, says Lucy Mayhew.
Have we created a generation of joyless, selfish monsters?
To you, it's a temper tantrum. To child psychiatrist Robert Shaw, it's the beginning of a slide into perdition. And it's all the parents' fault. Joanna Moorhead reports.
Yes, this is research
The life of a sex writer is not an easy ride. As Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey - authors of The Big Bang, the new Joy of Sex - know all too personally. Theory is one thing, but practice can often be far more perverse.
Box pop
Opening Skinner's Box is an intriguing attempt by Lauren Slater to 'bring to life' 10 psychological experiments
Don’t tell me my children are lazy – just pass the truffles
The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine is a thoughtful and vivid exploration of why some children have specific difficulties learning to write
The rhythm method is best
The secret of personal and professional success is simple according to Russell Foster's Rhythms of Life - pay attention to your body clock
I was not a lab rat
A new book has rekindled old rumours that renowned psychologist BF Skinner used his baby daughter in his experiments. Stop this rubbish about me and my dad, says Deborah Skinner Buzan.
All you need is status
What others think of us is a matter of life and death, writes Alain de Botton.
The song of the holy fools
For the Tantric minstrels of Bengal, taking music to the people, the divine is something you find within. William Dalrymple joins a never-ending tour.
Hitler’s debt to America
The Nazis were by no means the only advocates of racial purification. In this extract from his extraordinary new book, Edwin Black describes how Adolf Hitler's race hatred was underpinned by the work of American eugenicists.