Editorial: “Spreading like wildfire” — (Read)

How We Are: news, views and information
Attention and TV • dreaming and tickling • churchgoing and depression • musical hallucinations • people in uniforms • metaphorical thinking and delusion • birthdates and risk taking • antidepressant use in children • wellbeing in psychosis • self-recognition • thinking testosterone • fame fantasies’ effects on attainment • calming the mind • slow to sleep • violence in relationships • double-unblind trials • cities and stress

The man in the shiny red plastic suit
Pat Williams considers the devil, desire and better judgement

Great expectations
Joe Griffin shares significant new understandings about the givens of human nature

The mended fin: physiotherapy and the human givens
Jessica Bavinton shows how the human givens approach empowers patients in physiotherapy, and the therapists too

Social logic: how crowds behave in emergencies
John Drury talks to Denise Winn about why policies for preventing crowd panic in emergencies don’t take account of human nature

Status and shame: the impact of social structure on health
Richard Wilkinson says psychosocial factors caused by inequalities in income cause most ill health and early death

The road to recovery
Iain Caldwell describes how therapy from the human givens approach is having a huge impact on Hartlepool’s mental health services

From madness to creativity
Peter Chadwick says identifying and meeting suppressed needs can help channel the creativity of psychosis into useful work

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters