If I stopped people in the street and asked them ‘Do you know the difference between a psychiatrist and a surgeon?’ I imagine most would know. However, if I asked…

Actually, I now realised, I had been a somewhat power-crazed madness-spotter for twenty years. It is what we journalists do. It was why I had taken to being a psychopath-spotter…

Much as been written about Emma Forrest’s latest book Your Voice in my Head this year. An English journalist, precociously successful, she falls into a destructive bout of self-harm and…

As psychotherapists we are fascinated by what goes on people’s minds, and what makes one person so different from another. It has largely been the psychologists who have done their…

Freud’s iconic couch is still covered by an intricately patterned Qashqa’i rug, and it chimes with a long-felt love of oriental rugs by French artist Anne Deguelle. Her exhibition at…

The website Moodscope has had a splash in the press, and I also want to pay some well-deserved attention to it. Building on the zeitgeist of social networking sites, it…