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Mental Illness

The Parable of the Stupid Samaritan
I tried to help Andrea, a disorientated stranger at a hectic London station, to the irritation of the state’s representatives
James Mumford

My Memory is Failing — Will I Get Alzheimer’s?
In diagnosing dementias, the brain scan is less important than personality traits. But my patients never believe this
Harry Boothby

You’re So Thin — So How Can You Feel Fat?
Science has struggled to explain anorexia nervosa in its entirety. A new model is targeting the insula, a central hub of brain networks
Bryan Lask and Lucy Watson

Underrated: Alexandra Shulman
The editor of British Vogue has bravely — and rightly — shamed designers who insist their clothes be modelled by impossibly thin young girls
anonymous

An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul

What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth

Fisun Güner

Creeping Insanity
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Robert Low

Doctor in the House
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Anne Chisholm

Oliver James
The author of Affluenza and the darling of the TV psychiatrist's couch is underchallenged
Richard D. North

Sick Note

Dignitas' new scheme is based on the misconception that mental illness is a terminal illness

Kate Maltby

A Strange Rush for the Exit
In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic?
Robin Aitken

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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