Volume 16, No 3, 2009

Editorial:

One and all.

How we are: News, views and information:

• Circumstances alter cases
• sexual differences in vision
• juvenile stalkers
• negative beliefs about ageing
• hearing voices: whose are they?
• new worries about ‘legal highs’
• unreliable decisions
• the role of humour in relationships
• childhood bullying and psychosis
• cultural perspectives on emotion
• social relationships and recovery from mental illness
• psychiatric beds in the NHS

Putting the picture into focus

Pat Williams turns her attention inward – and outwards.

Saving lives: the ‘human givens’ helpline

Angela Winter describes a volunteer mental health helpline run entirely on human givens principles.

TALKING POINT

Lorne Loxterkamp argues that contact with birth parents can be harmful for adopted children.

ASD and psychosis: is caetextia the link?

New brain research supports Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell’s theory that caetextia can account for both ASD and psychosis.

Loneliness: the forgotten survival instinct

John T Cacioppo tells Denise Winn that loneliness conveys a vital message about our biological need for social connection.

Working with psychosis – once a week

Emily Lindsey-Clark shows how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome severe psychotic delusions.

History but not destiny

John Bayley describes how a new scheme is helping young offenders face a more meaningful future on release.

Catching up – and going beyond

The transformation of a seriously failing school for emotionally vulnerable and challenging youngsters. By Sean Pavitt.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters