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How We Are: news, views and information
Failings of epidemiology • counting without language • psychosis ‘a continuum’ • power of intent • poor and happy • music and the brain • fear of falling • autism and voice • depression in men • cultural memory • testicular self-examination • Prozac trial for depressed adolescents • eyewitnesses to crime • overcoming chronic non-organic paralysis • anorexia across cultures • lie detection • conflict at work • questioning ‘inclusion’

This is the perfect headline
Pat Williams puts the blight of perfectionism into context

How to live in peace
Drs David and Beatrix Hamburg explore why humans are so deeply prejudiced and how we can override this ancestral heritage

The psychological void at the heart of the EU
Ivan Tyrrell explores his misgivings about the proposed European Union constitution

Dark materials
Helga Dittmar talks to Denise Winn about the rise in materialistic values and how peer relationships seem subtly to affect this

Reframing ‘dyslexia’
Renée van der Vloodt and Hilary Farmer show how working with the talent of ‘dyslexia’ can remove the learning difficulties associated with it

“Imagine yourself on a yacht ...”
Merv Edmunds describes his highly successful approach to re-engaging the interest of young people turned off by school

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