How I coped with my wife’s early onset dementia

Keith Brown explains how he has managed to care for his wife Elaine since she was diagnosed at 56 with early onset dementia, caused by Pick's disease

Would a psychopath by any other name be as scary?

Martin Robbins: Jon Ronson's new book, The Psychopath Test, raises troubling questions about society's use of labels in tackling mental health issues

Women bear brunt as dementia deaths rise to 25,000

Fatal heart attacks, strokes and cancers down, but ONS figures show Alzheimer's deaths up 11%

A new view of self-harm

The phenomenon has spread to older people over the past 10 years. Why?

What is Madness? by Darian Leader – review

Darian Leader's study of madness contains superb insights but leaves Alexander Linklater with a sense of hopelessness

The mothers abandoned to postnatal depression

Rowan Davies: Women often turn to online sources of support because they find that NHS services fall short at a time of great vulnerability

Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities

There's Judy the teenage bulimic, devout Catholic Salamoe, gay Ken and over 100 more. Artist Kim Noble talks about living with multiple personality disorder

What Is Madness? by Darian Leader – review

How best to treat mental disorder? Jacqueline Rose admires a new manifesto

Have the Mind Book of the Year’s stories changed over 30 years?

Three decades after the prize was inaugurated, has understanding of mental health issues grown?

The mental illness industry is medicalising normality

Lisa Appignanesi: A reading group would do more to help individuals find relief than squeezing their unhappiness into a package labelled 'disorder'

Miller Mair obituary

Clinical psychologist who fought against 1950s orthodoxy

Acting up: is hysteria all in the mind?

'Celebrity hysterics' drew crowds in the 19th-century – but what can they teach us today?

Who wouldn’t want to take the sting out of painful memories?

Research suggests a simple way to neutralise memories that evoke fear, but perhaps it is by learning to cope with life's random tragedies that we develop as humans?