Fashion made no sense to me until McQueen hit the scene around the turn of the century. I loved the audacity of a Stratford boy taking over Givenchy and then…

I’d recommended Phillipa Perry’s Couch Fiction as an accessible introduction to the little-understood process of psychotherapy. But also, The Gossamer Thread, the memoir of John Marzillier. Setting off his professional…

Couples can’t always make a baby with ease, and for the one in six who struggle to do so, there’s another significant minority who may never conceive at all –…

Whatever you think of David Szalay’s latest novel, All That Man Is, it is undeniably a remarkable one. Defying convention, it is structured with the loosest of a narrative arc,…

Stephen Fry (on a now ancient podcast of In the Psychiatrist’s Chair) made a very powerful and interesting point about how his own ‘cleverness’ and ability to articulate his mental…

As with all professions, we vary in how much we charge for our services. You’ll find some therapists in private practice charging £25 a session (admittedly rare in London), while…