Griffith Edwards obituary

Expert on alcohol and drug addiction who pioneered new forms of treatment

This column will change your life: complainers

Is it time to stop moaning about moaners, Oliver Burkeman asks

This column will change your life: how do you know what you don’t know?

It's only when you realise you've been tying your shoelaces the wrong way your whole life that you can get properly knotted, says Oliver Burkeman

Subconscious cues can trigger the placebo effect, say researchers

The finding that there are subliminal influences on the placebo effect has implications for how healthcare is delivered

This column will change your life: has Pelmanism’s time come at last?

Almost 100 years since its invention, a long-forgotten 19th-century mind-training system may be due a resurrection, says Oliver Burkeman

This column will change your life: were we living the Olympic dream, or was it mass delirium?

Was Britain's two weeks of Olympic bliss just a moment of mental illness, wonders Oliver Burkeman

Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review

A discussion of good and bad mothers is not good enough for Rachel Cusk

Mirror fasting: what a great idea

Fond of looking in the mirror? Wait till you get to my age

Don’t look now: US bloggers claim avoiding the mirror can improve your image

'Mirror-fasting' for a month or even a year is the way, some say, to break the unhealthy habit of constantly checking one's looks

Is psychic Sally Morgan deluded but essentially harmless?

Simon Singh: It's often said in their defence that psychics such as Sally Morgan do little harm, even if their powers are illusory