Max Pemberton

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Max Pemberton

For decades, psychotherapy was viewed in the UK as something self-indulgent and American, the stuff of Woody Allen jokes. Now, of course, we're all encouraged to talk about our feelings at the drop of a hat and have come to appreciate the benefits of therapy for everyone. I'm trained in psychotherapy myself – and had to spend time 'in therapy' as part of that training. I found it transformative and liberating and would recommend it to anyone.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Max Pemberton

I've just returned from Los Angeles, where I spent a few days doing research for my next book. Walking around the city of an evening, I was struck by two things. The first was the shocking number of mentally ill people who were clearly experiencing psychosis, languishing on the streets, untreated and uncared for. While the UK is far from perfect and the NHS has many faults, the things I saw late at night in Los Angeles would never happen here.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Max Pemberton

The new Netflix drama Adolescence has won plaudits around the world. The gripping four-part drama begins with the arrest of a boy aged 13 for the murder of a female classmate. The show doesn’t concern itself with whether he did it or not – the evidence is convincingly laid out from the start – but rather why. The boy’s father, Eddie, is the appropriate adult as he is interviewed by police.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Max Pemberton

Everywhere you go these days it seems as though someone is either taking cocaine or talking about taking it. I'm baffled by how normal it's become. Once confined to louche Soho clubs or the edgier party crowd, it seems to have somehow become socially acceptable. People are now so judgmental about so many other things – eating meat, expanding your carbon footprint by flying, for example – and yet this one habit that causes so much destruction often gets a free pass.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Max Pemberton

All week my work WhatsApp group has been pinging with messages from colleagues. ‘Anyone have any flower sprinkles? I really want to elevate my packet of Monster Munch,’ read one. ‘Ahh, a lovely, cold, damp towel after a hard day,’ said another accompanied by a picture of a heap of dirty laundry by a washing machine. Yes, you’ve guessed it, like most of the country we are obsessed with Netflix’s new Meghan Markle show – whoops, my mistake – Meghan Sussex.