A Singular Point of View If you are holding a referral letter for your child right now, wondering whether to tick the box for talking therapy or the box for medication, this one is for you. Picture two doors at the end of a corridor, both closed, both unmarked, and you standing in front of […]

A Singular Point of View For twenty years, researchers have suspected that our inner bodily sense is where mental health quietly goes wrong. A large new study has now measured that sense properly in hundreds of people — and found something almost nobody expected. The body is always talking. A heart quickening on the stairs. […]

A Singular Point of View There is an old comfort in being heard. Long before there were clinics or waiting lists, people carried their troubles to whoever would sit still and listen — a friend at a kitchen table, a stranger on a long train journey, the quiet ear of someone who asked for nothing […]

A Singular Point of View For years a quiet doubt has trailed behind mindfulness — the worry that turning inward might, for some, make the darkness worse. A major new analysis of more than a thousand patients has now looked that fear squarely in the eye, and its answer is a steadying one. There is […]

A Singular Point of View A cheap, familiar supplement — the sort sold in gym bags rather than pharmacies — appeared to help talking therapy lift people out of depression faster than therapy alone. The trial is small and the science is early, but the finding is quietly, genuinely hopeful. Think of the mind as […]