My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet, and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer’s by Andrea Gillies

Two very different accounts of dementia struggle to make sense of a bewildering and frightening disease, says Kate Kellaway

The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford

Peter Forbes swaps his thinking cap for overalls

Sex scandals, rows and mavericks: is it time to regulate psychotherapy?

Long-overdue efforts to bring discipline to the profession and end malpractice by a number of rogue operators are causing tempers to fray

Cookbook’s ‘freshly ground black people’ gaffe boosts sales

The Pasta Bible, most copies of which were pulped because of a typo howler, has seen its sales rise as a result

The Selfish Society by Sue Gerhardt

Can the latest scientific thinking about child development help fix Britain's 'broken society'? asks Phil Hogan

In praise of sexual expression

Susie Bright: Cif is four: Lust makes a liar out of everyone. But without lies, there is no fiction – and stories are where sexual expression really shines

Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease by Gary Greenberg

Lewis Wolpert takes issue with a book that accuses drug manufacturers of hyping depression

Gary Greenberg: ‘Am I happy enough?’

Psychotherapist and author of Manufacturing Depression Gary Greenberg talks to Tim Adams about drugs and true love

The Shaking Woman by Siri Hustvedt

Rachel Cooke is impressed by novelist Siri Hustvedt's cool look at a disorder that has confounded her doctors

Autism: A healing, not a cure

Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?