Splendour in the grass
A mute in-patient at a psychiatric hospital left a legacy of his extraordinary art behind. Margaret McCartney meets an art therapist trying to make sure his work - and that of similar 'outsider' artists - is not lost.
Cut it out, please
If people must self-harm, they shouldn't turn up at A&E afterwards demanding to be patched up, argues Rachel James.
‘The number who express immense gratitude is overwhelming’
As research questions the effectivenss of sex change operations, a surgeon who has performed 200 of them tells David Batty the majority of his patients have gone on to lead much happier lives.
The last taboo
Madeleine Bunting: In the fight against prejudice, the stigmatisation of mentally ill people has been scandalously neglected.
Food defect could make thousands mentally ill
Factory farming has denied us chemicals in our diet that are vital to brain development, warn scientists.
‘The truth is, I’m exhausting to live with’
Nicholas Barrow reflects on the fury and fixation of living with Asperger's.
Depressed? Go and clean the kitchen
Anne Garvey on a radical self-help approach.
The eating cure
Forget drugs - diet is the way forward in treating mental illness, says Lucy Mayhew.