Editorial: One and all

How we are: News, views and information:
Circumstances alter cases • sexual differences in vision • juvenile stalkers • negative beliefs about ageing • hearing voices: whose are they? • new worries about 'legal highs' • unreliable decisions • the role of humour in relationships • childhood bullying and psychosis • cultural perspectives on emotion • social relationships and recovery from mental illness • psychiatric beds in the NHS

Putting the picture into focus
Pat Williams turns her attention inward – and outwards

Saving lives: the 'human givens' helpline
Angela Winter describes a volunteer mental health helpline run entirely on human givens principles

TALKING POINT
Lorne Loxterkamp argues that contact with birth parents can be harmful for adopted children

TASD and psychosis: is caetextia the link?
New brain research supports Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell's theory that caetextia can account for both ASD and psychosis

Loneliness: the forgotten survival instinct
John T Cacioppo tells Denise Winn that loneliness conveys a vital message about our biological need for social connection

Working with psychosis – once a week
Emily Lindsey-Clark shows how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome severe psychotic delusions

History but not destiny
John Bayley describes how a new scheme is helping young offenders face a more meaningful future on release

Catching up – and going beyond
The transformation of a seriously failing school for emotionally vulnerable and challenging youngsters. By Sean Pavitt

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