What Is Madness? by Darian Leader – review

How best to treat mental disorder? Jacqueline Rose admires a new manifesto

Have the Mind Book of the Year’s stories changed over 30 years?

Three decades after the prize was inaugurated, has understanding of mental health issues grown?

The mental illness industry is medicalising normality

Lisa Appignanesi: A reading group would do more to help individuals find relief than squeezing their unhappiness into a package labelled 'disorder'

Miller Mair obituary

Clinical psychologist who fought against 1950s orthodoxy

Acting up: is hysteria all in the mind?

'Celebrity hysterics' drew crowds in the 19th-century – but what can they teach us today?

Who wouldn’t want to take the sting out of painful memories?

Research suggests a simple way to neutralise memories that evoke fear, but perhaps it is by learning to cope with life's random tragedies that we develop as humans?

Alzheimer’s tests should be offered to over-60s, says top psychiatrist

Cambridge professor calls for screening to be integrated into routine healthcare as global mental health initiative is launched

The inside track . . . on negative thoughts

It can be hard to break out of a vicious cycle of negativity - but here are some tips

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson – review

The constant jokes are insanely funny but fail to mask the lack of a deeper purpose to Jon Ronson’s excursion into the world of psychiatry, writes Rachel Cooke

How to heal psychological damage

From Haiti to Gaza, psychiatrist James Gordon counsels survivors of disasters around the world