Faugh! Pah! Whewgh!
Nicholas Lezard is all lit up by The Faber Book of Smoking
Labour of love
When Kate Figes wrote critically about the natural childbirth movement in this newspaper earlier this year she was engulfed in a storm of outrage. So what would happen when she met Sheila Kitzinger, the high priestess of the crusade against medical birth?
Red Adair in the nursery
Revered by some, loathed by many, Gina Ford is fast becoming Britain's most controversial childcare guru. Joanna Moorhead meets her...
Et cetera…
Steven Poole on psychobaubles in the Ideas in Psychoanalysis series
Hate’s comfort
Dorothy Rowe's Friends and Enemies shows psychology falters without poetry says Andrew Rissik
Trapped in a painful past
Schizophrenia is a harrowing illness. But Tim Parks, whose own family has been afflicted, challenges orthodox views about its origins
James Lovelock
The inventor of Gaia theory and inspiration behind the modern Green movement discusses the end of our civilisation, his friendship with William Golding, and the benefits of nuclear power
Obituary: Robin Skynner
A pioneer of family therapy whose books - including one written with John Cleese - helped to make psychology more accessible to lay readers.
Be a tooth fairy: keep sugar off their diet
Joanna Blythman on the food menace that must be fought.
Confidence tricks
New research shows high self-esteem in children leads to success. But, Terri Apter asks, how to instil it?