When talking about your problems actually makes them worse
Philippa Perry: As Walter Mischel says, distancing yourself from a traumatic event will help you deal with it better than continually reliving it obsessionally
Lonely potato syndrome: how I invented a mental disorder
Dean Burnett: Understanding and dealing with mental illness is complicated enough, without idiots going around making up new ones
Prenatal alcohol consumption linked to mental health problems
Children whose mothers drink four units of alcohol even once are more likely to suffer from hyperactivity, study shows
Can you really get dementia in your 30s or 40s?
The Alzheimer’s Society hopes increasing evidence of the numbers with early onset dementia – some in their 30s and 40s – will lead to better diagnosis, writes Rachel Williams
It’s good to talk: China opens up to psychotherapy
Nearly 60 years after psychology was banned under Mao, interest in the western 'talking cure' is gaining ground
A sound idea: can ambient noise make us work harder?
The Times has installed typewriter noise in its newsroom, the latest attempt to use sound to affect us functionally
David Smail obituary
Clinical psychologist and writer whose work focused on the damaging effects of an unequal society
Schizophrenia need not be a life sentence, but treatment is falling short
Laura Sherlock's medication lets her live with the condition. But charity says too few sufferers receive the best help available
Bondi fitness scheme turns the tide on treating mental illness
Mark Gould: Australian 'Keeping the Body in Mind' programme imported to boost fitness of UK mental health patients
Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer
Pete Cashmore: In the face of a Tory call for cuts to benefits for those who go without treatment, it is important to know how brutal some methods can be and why refusing them can be valid
Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies review – ‘a punchy polemic on mental health’
Richard Layard and David M Clark's polemic about mental illness is a revelation – but they're a little too sure they have all the answers, writes Ian Birrell
Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most
For young Britons, loneliness is an epidemic – and they are even more likely to fall victim to its insidious dangers than the elderly. Natalie Gil reports
Mood swings? It might be more than PMS…
Alice Roberts: The most commonly prescribed combined contraceptive pill has a potential side-effect that more women – and GPs – should know about
This column will change your life: just sit down and think
'No wonder we don't dwell on what's inside: that would underline the loneliness of existence,' says Oliver Burkeman
Advising women with depression about having children isn’t babying them
Hannah Jane Parkinson: Doctors are being advised to speak to women with depression about
pregnancy risks. This is not intrusive – it's necessary guidance