How To Agree to Disagree (turning conflict into connection) with Gabrielle Rifkind
I am not a fan of the saying “let’s agree to disagree”, it can be so passive aggressive. But it’s the title of Gabrielle Rifkind’s new book and maybe this pass-agg comment deserves an upgrade. Regular...
25 Juni 42min
Who we are and who we have become in an age of technology and A.I with Prof Alessandra Lemma
This episode was not easy to name. The subject is highly topical, but the take on it is original and thought-provoking. Alessandra has written her 25th book: ‘Psychotechnical Becomings: Psychoanalysis...
18 Juni 47min
Loneliness with David Robson
In this episode I’m in conversation with David Robson. David is an award winning science writer and author of three books, one of which The Laws of Connection, we really delve into here. David graduat...
11 Juni 38min
The Menstrual Brain with Dr Sophie Behrman
Dr Sophie Behrman is a is a general adult psychiatrist and works in a community mental health team in Oxford. She’s set up an NHS menopause and menstrual disorders clinic, open to women who fit a cert...
4 Juni 39min
Dissociation with Dr Joanne Stubley
I first came across the concept of dissociation when I saw a film called Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward. It was about a young woman with multiple personalities. Sybil would dissociate ...
28 Maj 58min
Why the arts are good for us with Prof Daisy Fancourt
Daisy Fancourt is a professor of psychobiology and epidemiology and head of the Social Biobehavioural research group at University College London. She has a Phd in psycho-neuroimmunology and is also d...
21 Maj 37min
The Menopause Brain with Dr Sophie Behrman
I’m very pleased to see the menopause is being discussed more that it ever was. It does, after all, potentially affect a great many of us: directly and by proxy.About fifteen years ago, I wanted to wr...
12 Feb 40min
Projection with psychotherapist Ryan Bennett-Clark
In the spring of 2020, I got a letter. It was, quite possibly, the worse letter I’ve ever got and I’ve had a few. It was full of bile and unhappiness, unfair and harsh. I recognised immediately that t...
5 Feb 46min
