I know Stephen Grosz’s recent book has had quite a splash, so I offer my feeble and quick opinion in the wake of many (more interesting) ones, but I always…

Daniel Smith is an anxiety veteran – the list of experiences, relationships and things that induce his fight or flight response is impressively long. One wonders how he managed to…

Earlier this year, I spent two days with Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, US academics/researchers/practitioners who have devised an 8 day ‘Mindful Self-Compassion’ course (in trial stage – see below…

Russell Kolts knows about anger. Not just because he’s a human being, but he’s spent many years as a psychologist helping people get to grips with the destructive side to…

Marion Milner’s industrious, enquiring and inspiringly lively mind kept going until her death in 1998. Bothered by Alligators is a sometimes moving addition to her unique autobiographical works, infused with…

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…