E134 - Is Psychiatry Making Things Worse? (w/ Marieke Bigg)

E134 - Is Psychiatry Making Things Worse? (w/ Marieke Bigg)

Marieke Bigg is an author of fiction and nonfiction in the areas of women’s health, mental health, and the history of science. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge where her research focused on the debates on human embryo research in Britain. She is currently also training as a psychotherapist and works as a peer support coordinator and client liaison at the mental health charity Mind. Her most recent book is No Such Thing As Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limit...

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E108 - What is Psychosis? (with Prof. Richard Bentall)

E108 - What is Psychosis? (with Prof. Richard Bentall)

Richard Benthall is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield in the UK. His research has focusued on the psychological mechanisms of severe mental illness (such as hallucinati...

24 Jan 202558min

E107 - The Evolution of Psychiatry (w/ Dr. Adam Hunt)

E107 - The Evolution of Psychiatry (w/ Dr. Adam Hunt)

Dr. Adam Hunt (PhD) is a post-doc researcher at the University of Cambridge and the host of the Evolving Psychiatry podcast which provides interviews, insights and an introduction to evolutionary psyc...

17 Jan 20251h 24min

E106 - Overcoming Cynicism in Mental Health (Anti-Psychiatry, Anti-depressants, Big Pharma, ADHD, Psychotherapy)

E106 - Overcoming Cynicism in Mental Health (Anti-Psychiatry, Anti-depressants, Big Pharma, ADHD, Psychotherapy)

Today Alex chats with Dr. Alex Meaburn, a speciality doctor in psychiatry who has been working on the podcast behind the scenes. They discuss some of the limitations of psychiatry including problems w...

10 Jan 20251h 5min

Why New Years Resolutions Fail (and What to Do Instead)

Why New Years Resolutions Fail (and What to Do Instead)

This podcast is a guide to making any kind of resolution towards long term behaviour change. It includes a step by step guide to implementing a new behaviour including choosing an area to work on, fra...

3 Jan 202535min

Why Are Men Suffering with their Mental Health? (Live at Trinity Rugby Club)

Why Are Men Suffering with their Mental Health? (Live at Trinity Rugby Club)

This week's episode is a live Q & A recorded at Trinity Rugby Club in South London. Dr. Alex is interviewed by Andrew Edwards the Director of Rugby at the club and they discuss various topics such as:...

27 Des 20241h 8min

E105 - What do Video Games do to our Minds? (w/Dr. Hamilton Morrin)

E105 - What do Video Games do to our Minds? (w/Dr. Hamilton Morrin)

Dr Hamilton Morrin is a psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and an NIHR academic clinical fellow at King's College London researching neuropsychiatric disorders using neurot...

20 Des 20241h 3min

E104 - Deprescribing Anti-Depressants and Challenging "Biological Depression" (w/ Dr. Mark Horowitz)

E104 - Deprescribing Anti-Depressants and Challenging "Biological Depression" (w/ Dr. Mark Horowitz)

Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, now working as a Clinical Research Fellow at UCL. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology and has edited a collect...

13 Des 20241h 1min

E103 - Evidence-Based Parenting (w/ Matilda Gosling)

E103 - Evidence-Based Parenting (w/ Matilda Gosling)

Matilda Gosling is an author, social scientist and researcher, with two books that cover parenting, development and mental health. Evidence-Based Parenting came out in January 2024, and Teenagers: The...

6 Des 20241h 7min

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