The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong?
Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest
Zero by Jeremy Hunt review – this is going to hurt
You can’t fault the former health secretary’s proposals for improving patient care, but his slick prose fails to acknowledge the damage inflicted on the NHS by his party during his tenure as health secretary
Shift your vibe! 60 quick ways to make yourself slightly happier
Things feeling a bit stale? These small tweaks to your routine will turn things around, boost your mood and could even make you a better person …
Preventable by Devi Sridhar review – a resolutely global view of Covid
One of the best-known public intellectuals of the pandemic gives her account of two years that shook the world
Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad
The author of Quiet again bangs the drum for the world’s sensitive souls, but her unflagging earnestness is depressingly short of nuance and humour
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review – astonishing adventures in precognition
How the Aberfan disaster prompted one psychiatrist to launch a nationwide search for ‘seers’ who could predict the future
A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain
The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better
After my sister died I didn’t know what to do with my furious pain – but poets and horses led the way
I was heartbroken and angry but horse riding and medieval poetry revealed the quest I was on, says Clover Stroud
Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull review – mind games
The chequered history of psychiatry over the last 200 years is one of much pain and some progress
Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell
Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author