Martyn Dawes is not a doctor, dietician or counsellor. He is a meridian therapist. In Mind Over Weight, he explains that by practising the meridian therapy techniques he recommends, you can take control of your body and mind, and set yourself free from the barriers that are stopping you from losing weight. Before you start, you have to do some exercises to get to the bottom of the emotional blocks that are making you hang onto your weight. Then, with your old belief systems revealed, you release them through tapping the appropriate meridian points on your body, combined with various positive statements. If you do this course, said Amanda Ursell in The Sunday Times, `you will dump your weight for good, and diets as we know them will be redundant.' 192pp, 129mm x 196mm, illus. in b&w, softback, 2002