The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
Peter Forbes swaps his thinking cap for overalls
Sex scandals, rows and mavericks: is it time to regulate psychotherapy?
Long-overdue efforts to bring discipline to the profession and end malpractice by a number of rogue operators are causing tempers to fray
Cookbook’s ‘freshly ground black people’ gaffe boosts sales
The Pasta Bible, most copies of which were pulped because of a typo howler, has seen its sales rise as a result
The Selfish Society by Sue Gerhardt
Can the latest scientific thinking about child development help fix Britain's 'broken society'? asks Phil Hogan
In praise of sexual expression
Susie Bright: Cif is four: Lust makes a liar out of everyone. But without lies, there is no fiction – and stories are where sexual expression really shines
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Gary Greenberg
Lewis Wolpert takes issue with a book that accuses drug manufacturers of hyping depression
Gary Greenberg: ‘Am I happy enough?’
Psychotherapist and author of Manufacturing Depression Gary Greenberg talks to Tim Adams about drugs and true love
The Shaking Woman by Siri Hustvedt
Rachel Cooke is impressed by novelist Siri Hustvedt's cool look at a disorder that has confounded her doctors
Autism: A healing, not a cure
Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?
Reading your way out of depression
Wayne Gooderham: I suspect you need a very individual prescription, but I know that Saul Bellow helped lead me out of a very dark time