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
Happiness linked to a gene that comes in long and short versions
Your overall happiness may depend in part on whether you drew the long or short version of a gene, say researchers
Sleep changes associated with loss of brain power in middle age
Study of people aged between 45 and 69 finds adverse changes in sleep duration associated with poor cognitive function
You’re Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review
The older people get, the older they believe 'old' to be
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review
An ambitious dissection of the most intangible human emotion turns to literature and Freud to chart the experience in all its forms, writes Salley Vickers
More stuff does not make us happier. Doing stuff, especially for others, does
Suzanne Moore: Despite all its encouraging homilies and self-help jargon, I don't want the new organization Action for Happiness. I want Action for Things to Be Basically OK
Memories are made of this: how to boost your mind
How on earth could anyone memorise all 626 lines of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Well, a technique that relies on mental images could be all that's needed, according to US memory champion Joshua Foer