This column will change your life: Poverty and willpower
Oliver Burkeman asks whether the 'psychic costs' of resisting temptation are heavier if you're poor
Tanya L Chartrand: Botox impairs our ability to relate to others
Neuroscientist Tanya L Chartrand explains to Ian Tucker how using Botox to paralyse facial muscles harms our ability to empathise
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?
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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
Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being — and How to Achieve Them by Martin Seligman — review
Wellbeing expert Richard Layard isn't entirely happy with the latest book from the guru of positive psychology…
How to heal psychological damage
From Haiti to Gaza, psychiatrist James Gordon counsels survivors of disasters around the world
Breastfeeding leads to better behaviour in children, researchers claim
Interaction between mother and child seen as significant factor in research based on Millennium Cohort Study
Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?
It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it? Will Storr investigates