In Therapy: How Conversations with Psychotherapists Really Work by Susie Orbach – review

The dramatised format isn’t perfect but this companion piece to Orbach’s Radio 4 series offers a real insight into the ‘talking cure’

The 100 best nonfiction books: No 41 – How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)

The original self-help manual on American life – with its influence stretching from the Great Depression to Donald Trump – has a lot to answer for

Susie Orbach: the poetry of therapy

Sigmund Freud’s ‘talking cure’ disrupted the doctor-patient relationship, and the back and forth of polite conversation; now the language of therapy has taken on a rhythm of its own

Richard Reed: ‘Will wackaging be my contribution to the species?’

The Innocent co-founder on climbing, Europe and his new book, in which he asks extraordinary people for advice on life

Deliciously Stella: the Instagram sensation serving up raw Kinder eggs on avo-toast

Nauseated by a world of nut butters and cauli pizzas, comedian Bella Younger began a fightback against the clean-eating fanatics

Avalanche by Julia Leigh review – when IVF doesn’t work

Leigh, a writer and director, had six rounds of IVF and didn’t conceive. She writes about the heavy toll it took, and whether grief is admissible for an imagined child