Volume 16, No 2, 2009

Editorial:

Microscope or telescope.

How we are: News, views and information:

• Recovering from psychosis without drugs
• cognitive-behavioural therapy and psychosis
• breast screening – the unrealised facts
• black-and-white thinking
• frowning and happiness
• unsettled at school
• sick notes
• teen depression
• countering hidden racial bias
• weather and memory
• attraction
• cannabis study
• voice blindness
• gender-based responses to abuse
• the need for social connection

A question of form

Pat Williams explores why new ideas almost always adopt old forms.

Transformation in the NHS

Denise Winn discovers how a determined approach to change is revolutionising care at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

Orchestrating excellence

Charles Callis considers the social potential of organised group activities that are allowed to develop organically.

Therapy: the evidence about what works

There is research evidence to support many positive therapeutic outcomes. Mick Cooper has put it all together.

Brain and mind: an unfathomable relationship?

James Le Fanu tells Ivan Tyrrell why he asserts that reductionist science can never explain the mystery of ourselves.

Dancing out of step

Miriam Chachamu says she doesn’t take at face value what her clients tell her.

A life in service

Andrew Jones’s effectiveness as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force was completely transformed by the human givens approach.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters