Should we put lithium in the water?
A psychiatrist in Ireland has suggested that putting psychiatric medicine in drinking water could cut the suicide rate
Therapy stole my boyfriend
Elizabeth Leighton encouraged her partner to go into analysis. Five years and two babies later he still has five sessions a week. Now she feels sidelined and doesn't know where to turn…
Can we take happy Britons at face value?
Richard Wilkinson: The 1930s brought poverty but also better health – partly because inequality declined. Today's situation is rather different
How I coped with my wife’s early onset dementia
Keith Brown explains how he has managed to care for his wife Elaine since she was diagnosed at 56 with early onset dementia, caused by Pick's disease
Would a psychopath by any other name be as scary?
Martin Robbins: Jon Ronson's new book, The Psychopath Test, raises troubling questions about society's use of labels in tackling mental health issues
Women bear brunt as dementia deaths rise to 25,000
Fatal heart attacks, strokes and cancers down, but ONS figures show Alzheimer's deaths up 11%
A new view of self-harm
The phenomenon has spread to older people over the past 10 years. Why?
What is Madness? by Darian Leader – review
Darian Leader's study of madness contains superb insights but leaves Alexander Linklater with a sense of hopelessness
The mothers abandoned to postnatal depression
Rowan Davies: Women often turn to online sources of support because they find that NHS services fall short at a time of great vulnerability
Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities
There's Judy the teenage bulimic, devout Catholic Salamoe, gay Ken and over 100 more. Artist Kim Noble talks about living with multiple personality disorder