Psychiatrist studies near-death accounts and says they make you happier 

BOOK OF THE WEEK AFTER by Dr Bruce Greyson (Bantam £16.99, 272 pp)  One Monday morning, at the age of 56, lorry driver Al Sullivan turned up for work and had a massive heart attack. The next thing he remembers is looking down at his own body on an operating table. He was interested, in a … Read more

It’s better for your children not to have a perfect parent: NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton

My mum was not always the perfect parent when I was growing up. Times like when I fell down the manhole in the front garden and knocked myself out while she chatted to our neighbour. Or the time when I was eight and I was left waiting for three hours outside an empty church hall … Read more

It’s better for your children not to have a perfect parent: NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton

My mum was not always the perfect parent when I was growing up. Times like when I fell down the manhole in the front garden and knocked myself out while she chatted to our neighbour. Or the time when I was eight and I was left waiting for three hours outside an empty church hall … Read more