Volume 15, No 2, 2008

EDITORIAL:

An idea that is spreading

How we are: News, views and information:

• Norms that aren’t normal
• false sense of security
• mothers who are offenders
• a game to enhance mood
• power and persuasion
• concerns about drugs for depression – and drug trials
• five praises a day
• initials that affect performance
• false confession
• body clocks
• an aid for family work
• teenage mothers and babies’ cries
• anxiety in pregnancy
• music and stroke
• art and Alzheimer’s
• coping with pain
• working memory overload

When words can’t say it all

Pat Williams on the power of concentrated attention.

Our many minds and the opera of life

Pat Williams shares a powerful metaphor for bringing about transformation.

The magic hoover

A story by Chris Dyas about how a girl in the secure care system made a life-changing decision.

Myth of the chemical cure

Joanna Moncrieff reveals to Farouk Okhai some alarming little-known truths about psychiatric drugs.

“Just what we need”

Linda Hoggan and Carmen Kane describe their innovative and highly popular programme for parents.

A lesson in teaching

Jonathan Solity explains a teaching method that could change education.

On the receiving end

How a former alcoholic, drug addict and violent criminal found a way to start anew. By Paula Bruce.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters.