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How We Are: news, views and information
Shortcomings of CBT for GPs - benefits for nurses • heart disease and stress • mental health problems at work • exercise and depressed elderly people • sleep • emotional intelligence in schools • recovery from stroke • bullies and victims • shortcomings of supervision • ex-offenders • domestic violence • pregnancy and anxiety • shortsight • communication • disordered eating • autism on the increase

A tale of two cultures
Pat Williams shows that progress is not straightforward

Young, gifted and blocked
Phil Harris explains why most drug prevention programmes aimed at young people are almost worthless

The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell suggests a refreshingly straightforward approach to the difficulties of arriving at ethical decisions

Living Proofs
Joe Griffin finds out what enabled Michael Gearin-Tosh to defy the advice of specialists to whom he was referred for cancer treatment

For better or worse: the children of divorce
After 30 years of rigorous research, Professor E Mavis Hetherington says that divorce is by no means all bad for children

On the receiving end
David Barrington describes, with Dr Grahame Brown, his recovery from severe trauma, caused by a botched surgical operation

“What works” doesn’t work
Government is promoting cognitive behavioural programmes in place of prison sentences. Yet they don’t reduce offending. By Peter Goad

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