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How We Are: news, views and information
The baby and the bathwater • Viagra • coping with cleft palate • fish oil and the brain • fathers and education • GPs and syndromes • why some high fliers don’t become doctors • power of gesture • near-death experiences explained? • monkeys and mothers • the global burden of depression • too complicated questions • therapists’ ethnic backgrounds • experience versus education • difficult consultations with adolescents • martial arts in schools

Science yes – but metaphor too
Pat Williams muses on scientists’ search for a ‘theory of everything’

Depression: the myth of ‘biochemical imbalance’
Bill Andrews tells the sorry tale of how antidepressant drugs ever came to be a first-line treatment for depression

On the receiving end
A young Russian woman describes how, with the help of human givens therapist Mike Beard, she overcame severe, longstanding emotional problems

Neighbours from hell
Ivan Tyrrell talks to Frank Field MP about how to halt the decline of politeness, thoughtfulness and consideration for others

The Mozart effect and Keshan disease
Professor Norman Sartorius explores why information that could be important for public health so often fails to generate action

Outside the comfort zone: buildings and basic human needs
People are happiest and most productive if they work in buildings that function efficiently and effectively. By Adrian Leaman

Respect: effective therapy with marginalised young people
Joy Gilson and Stuart Coulden describe their highly successful work with children at risk of exclusion from school or society

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