Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
Is the current epidemic of depression and hyperactivity the result of disease-mongering by the psychiatric profession and big pharma, asks Will Self. Does psychiatry have any credibility left at all?
The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism, by Naoki Higashida – review
This extraordinary book, written by a 13-year-old autistic boy, challenges popular preconceptions of the condition, says Ned Denny
Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop – review
A frank and wondrous book about two women who meet during cancer treatment that will make you less afraid of the disease, writes Jane Housham
Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax – review
Ruby Wax's examination of depression is at times insightful and at others exhausting, writes Bella Bathurst
The End of Night by Paul Bogard – review
Would less artificial light be better for us all? It's a modest and worthwhile aim, finds Salley Vickers
The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review
In an age of so many real and imagined terrors, can we learn to be brave? By Kathryn Hughes
What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner – review
On prosmiscuity, porn, monogamy ... this study of female sexuality overturns some tenacious assumptions, writes Emma Brockes
Dan Brown, diets and Swedish fiction: what we’ve read so far in 2013
Liz Bury: Official sales figures of digital and print books for the first half of the year show a preoccupation with diets and thrillers
Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism?
We can't get enough of books about discovering yourself in the wilderness. What's it all about, asks Steven Poole
The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane – review
Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: In the final book in his trilogy about landscape and the human heart, Robert Macfarlane turns his attention to sacred encounters and wild walks