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Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far

The Anatomy of Melancholy was written more than 400 years ago, but Robert Burton’s masterpiece is strangely modern. Although it brims with quaint language and Latin quotes, it also resembles a medical textbook: a compendium of the symptoms, causes, prognoses and treatments of human misery.

The Conversation

Rough sleepers raise concerns for Beaumont Street business owners

'No one wants to come to my shop.'

Newcastle Herald

A short history of insomnia and how we became obsessed with sleep

This article is the first in The Conversation’s six-part series on insomnia, which charts the rise of insomnia during industrialisation to sleep apps today.

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‘Happiness can be ignited by making something small infinite’: what makes me happy now

If the last few years have taught us anything, writes Robert Dessaix, it’s that happiness and sadness, even misery can go together

The Guardian - AU

An Anatomy of Melancholy review – vivid musical study of an indefinable condition

In an intimate show – part a staged recital part a mini-opera - Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland’s lute songs epitomising melancholy

The Guardian - UK

An Anatomy of Melancholy at The Pit Theatre, Barbican review: deeply moving

An Anatomy of Melancholy at the Barbican

Evening Standard

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time

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From The Banshees of Inisherin to Taylor Swift: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A black Irish comedy or the return of country-pop’s finest? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

TV anchor parents create hilarious newscast about their baby’s daily habits

‘Hopefully you slept well, certainly no one else did,’ mother jokingly tells her child in newscast parody

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