Dr Gareth Hughes

The Gift of not Belonging

According to American psychiatrist Rami Kaminski, one can be other than either extravert or introvert; he calls it being an otravert – “facing in a different direction” and having an innate (so he asserts) lack of need to belong.

Inner Sense: how the new science of interoception can transform your health

Every so often, a new understanding about the body captures both scientific and public imagination, inspiring much research and seemingly explaining almost all oddities and ills.

The social elephant in the room

The societies in which we live influence the forms of psychosomatic illnesses people may manifest, neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan explains to Denise Winn.