June 2022 Issue Salley Vickers Bodies of Evidence The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind By Noga Arikha LR
September 2016 Issue Matthew Smith The Kids Aren’t Alright ADHD Nation: The Disorder. The Drugs. The Inside Story. By Alan Schwarz LR
April 2016 Issue Mike Jay You Talking to Me? The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves By Charles Fernyhough LR
June 2003 Issue Thomas Hodgkinson No More Than Meat Into The Silent Land: Travels In Neuropsychology By Paul Broks LR
April 2015 Issue Daniel Pick Minds in Tumult Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine By Andrew Scull LR
September 2008 Issue John Cornwell Plastic Fantastic The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge LR
February 2008 Issue Pamela Norris Out of the Attic Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present By Lisa Appignanesi LR
February 2008 Issue Lewis Wolpert Coping With Loss The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression By Darian Leader LR
May 2012 Issue John Sutherland Down Under the Table My Name Is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey By Ross Fitzgerald LR
May 2012 Issue Theodore Dalrymple Pressing the Self-Destruct Button The Fix: How Addiction Is Invading Our Lives and Taking over Your World By Damian Thompson LR
October 2012 Issue Gillian Tindall The Alleged Lunatics’ Friend Society Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England By Sarah Wise LR
April 2014 Issue John Clay Coping Strategies The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times By Barbara Taylor My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD, and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought By David Adam LR
March 2013 Issue Deborah Cohen The Lives of Others Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love By Andrew Solomon LR
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