You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded — the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think a

London can be a busy and stressful place to work. With increasingly busy transport links, a tangibly unsettled economy and the consumer lead pressures of modern life, might this impact on a city worker's emotional well-being? Models of emotional well-being highlight our environment as a big determinant of our mental well being. This is because we all have a propensity to internalise our external world, and the extent to which we do this can depend on the severity of what is g

A fascinating and powerful article in about therapy by journalist and editor James Brown. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/james-brown-how-therapy-saved-my-life/