...reviews

The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr (HarperCollins; £12.99); reviewed by Annie Brookman-Byrne, Deputy Editor.

A web of intrigue

The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry by Keith J. Holyoak (MIT Press; £27.00); Reviewed by Cathy Rogers.

Stop pushing people into a river

Alina Ivan (King's College London) visits the 'Art & Protest' exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery.

Where does inspiration come from?

Aspasia Paltoglou watches the play 'Tao of Glass' at Manchester International Festival.

Going under to rise above mistakes

Under Pressure by Gareth Lock (Human in the System Consulting; £30); reviewed by Laura Watson.

The bravery to be honest

Kate Johnstone watches 'This Way Up' on Channel 4.

Stop plastering over problems

Dale Whetter watches Dispatches: Young, British, and Depressed.

An unvarnished view of the therapeutic process

Judith Johnson watches 'The Patient Gloria' at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.

Outstanding theatre in Edinburgh

Society President David Murphy is a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This year he’s already caught more than 20 shows; here are his brief thoughts on three that have stood out for him.

The monstrous inflation of diagnosis

'D for Diagnosis' on BBC Radio 4, reviewed by Kate Johnstone.

An exploration of far-right extremism in the UK today

Sarah Knight watches.

Observing, sense-making and perspective-taking

'Values in psychological science: Re-imagining epistemic priorities at a new frontier', by Lisa M. Osbeck (Cambridge University Press; £80); reviewed by Phil Loring.

Textbook histories

'A History of Modern Psychology' by Per Saugstad (Cambridge University Press; Hb £115), and 'Our Minds, Our Selves: A Brief History of Psychology' by Keith Oatley (Princeton University Press; Hb £24); reviewed by Adrian C. Brock.

Having a role after a dementia diagnosis

Amy Breed watches 'The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes'.

Opening up rich conversations

Exhibition: Art and Value at Bethlem Gallery from 12th June – 31st August

Privileging the voices of young adults

Applied Educational Psychology with 16-25 year olds, by Brian Apter, Christopher Arnold, and Julia Hardy (eds) (UCL IOE Press; pb £25.99). Reviewed by Dr Miles Thomas.

Struggles, hope and opportunity

Girls and Autism: Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives, by Barry Carpenter, Francesca Happé and Jo Egerton (eds) (Routledge; pb £29.99). Reviewed by Eloise Stark.

Between the psychological and the extreme

Sally Marlow visits Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at the Design Museum.

A quietly angry cry for help

Wendy Lloyd watches 'Dirty God', a new film directed by Sacha Polak.

They just need to care

The Year I Didn’t Eat by Samuel Pollen (ZunTold Books; £7.99).

The multiplicity of the self

Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self by Robert V. Levine (Robinson; £14.99). Reviewed by Chris Fullwood, University of Wolverhampton.

How Freud hijacked the most heated debate of all time

Introduction to Key Concepts and Evolutions in Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Neuroscience by Alexis A. Johnson (Routledge; £32.99). Reviewed by Voula Tsoflias, chartered psychologist and novelist.