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How We Are: news, views and information
'Human Givens': the book • patient power • forgotten smell • language of hope • depression and fame • incapacity • medicalised misery • expressed emotion • baby massage • gesturing • calming cuddles • psychosis and poetry • changing lives • headache cure • stress in the NHS • unexpected exam effects • positives of trauma • isolated elderly • flashback • aid for juvenile offenders • brainy left handers • benefits of rough and tumble • exercise at school

Going, going ... gone with the flow
Pat Williams regrets that valuable ideas often get reduced to slogans

Iraq: the war on the imagination
Miriam Ryle writes from personal experience of Iraq about the psychological impact of the last war, and the likely effects of this one

Your place, not mine: bringing primary care to school
Judy Thompson describes an award-winning project to give teenagers private, easy access to medical and psychological care

Hands up for healthy learning
Denise Winn finds out about accelerated learning techniques

Are we just big babies: the origins of human behaviour
Clive Bromhall tells Joe Griffin why he thinks the newborn chimpanzee holds the key to human evolution and behaviour

The culture of cure: why addiction treatments fail
The treatment culture, not the drug culture, makes it hard to stem addiction, says Phil Harris who can suggest a better approach

On the receiving end
Ayesha Vernon describes her experience of harmful mainstream psychiatric care, and the methods that finally helped her

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