A Manual for Heartache review – sound advice for the grieving
Cathy Rentzenbrink, who wrote a moving memoir about losing her brother, now offers unpreachy tips to fellow sufferers
Can you write your way to happiness?
A growing number of diarists are using expressive writing or ‘bullet journalling’ to improve their health and productivity. But does keeping a daily log actually work?
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s – review
Joseph Jebelli’s personal study of a disease that has reached epidemic proportions offers the latest research – but not much hope
Future Sex: Emily Witt on new ways of understanding porn, marriage and love
The author discusses her investigation of the new world of relationships and sexuality opening up in the digital age
How to master the art of change in a world in flux
For her book Metamorphosis, Polly Morland interviewed everyone from a man who lost 18 stone to a monk who fell in love. Then Trump and Brexit happened …
Back, Sack & Crack (& Brain): a graphic memoir with balls
From his back to his stomach to his testicles, Robert Wells had been in pain for decades – but no one in the NHS believed him. So he turned it all into a hilarious graphic novel
Putting off the important things? It’s not for the reasons you think
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do now, especially if you’re holding back in the hope of doing it properly
A moment that changed me: living on my own, and taking control of my life
Moving into a flat alone in my 30s gave me a sense of freedom and a new emotional space in which my creative self could grow
Top 10 books about psychoanalysis
Freud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure
Ice baths and snow meditation: can cold therapy make you stronger?
When Scott Carney set out to debunk the health benefits of extreme cold, a strange thing happened. He tells Tim Adams about lighting his ‘inner fire’