The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith review – a thought-provoking tour around our feelings
This compendium of emotions from around the world makes you feel we need more words for our feelings, not fewer
Profit, not patients: the risks of private medicine
Ultimately, private providers have their shareholders’ interests at heart, not their patients’. A GP and celebrated writer shares his experiences of how the healthcare system works
Like Jackie Collins, I kept my cancer diagnosis a secret – and I don’t regret it
Keeping her illness from her sister Joan must have been one of the hardest decisions Jackie Collins had ever had to make – I did the same to protect my parents
Oliver Sacks obituary
Neurologist and writer best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
My first labour was harrowing. Hypnobirthing made my second like a dream
First-time mothers can be terrified because they’re rushed through labour, but I overcame my fears with the help of this meditative practice
Neurotribes review – the evolution of our understanding of autism
A life-affirming study shows how much attitudes have changed to the condition once known as ‘childhood psychosis’
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot – review
Dangerous idealist or revolutionary hero? A nuanced look at a reforming psychiatrist
The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep is surely the stuff of nightmares
Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin’s self-published book claims to cure young insomniacs, but should bedtime stories be about tricking children to conk out?
Misery, failure, death and a slap in the face. Great advice for life from James Hollis
Don’t interpret What Matters Most as self-help cheesiness. This blunt and refreshing work by a follower of Jung is a radical and humbling way of thinking about psychology
Naked at Lunch review – the funny thing about nudism
Mark Haskell Smith’s undercover view of nudism is both thoughtful and hilarious