Fathers-to-be, trust me, watching your children being born is not traumatic
Ally Fogg: Media misrepresentation of research into life-threatening labour complications has real and harmful consequences
Dad’s care home has been hit by the norovirus
Rebecca Ley: I haven't seen Dad for a long time, but I'm six months pregnant and don't want to get the vomiting bug
Sleep is not the new sex. It’s more important than that
Suzanne Moore: We're all tired, but what lies behind our national self-diagnosis of insomnia? Like most things, I blame this one on Thatcher
NHS recognises that mindfulness meditation is good for depression
Mia Hansson: Scientists have now discovered how mindfulness meditation can give patients control over levels of depression, anxiety and chronic pain
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review
Tim Adams is moved by a study of how disability, crime or illness test the limits of parental love
Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too
Lynsey Hanley: Prescribing self-help books to people with depression is good, but the social benefit of reading groups also empowers
How useful are self-help books for treating depression?
New research suggests self-help books could treat depression better than antidepressants or therapy, relatively cheaply and without side-effects. Dr Luisa Dillner
The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review
Stephen Grosz's collection of case histories makes the case for psychoanalysis in the subtlest of ways, writes Alexander Linklater
Miss Vogue receives cautious welcome from health campaigners
Spin-off fashion magazine aimed at teenagers must adopt 'responsible approach' warns MP amid body image fears
Britain’s loneliness epidemic
People in Britain are living longer, and increasingly, spending their last years alone. Now more of us than ever before describe ourselves as lonely. Homa Khaleeli finds out how to beat the loneliness epidemic
My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues
As a child, Rae Earl suffered from anxiety, delusions and OCD. After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons
Blue Monday: a depressing day of nonsense science (again)
Dean Burnett: In the spirit of Blue Monday, here are the equations for the perfect first date, the best late-night junk food and the ideal Bank Holiday shop
What doctors won’t do
From steroids to sleeping tablets, IVF to the flu jab – doctors reveal the treatments they would avoid
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves – review
By recounting real-life stories that have stayed with him, Grosz offers an intriguing insight into contemporary psychoanalysis, writes Susanna Rustin
Susannah Cahalan: ‘What I remember most vividly are the fear and anger’
The New Yorker was 24 when she fell seriously ill with a mystery condition. Here she tells Carole Cadwalladr how she pieced together her terrifying ordeal to write a remarkable memoir