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Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Statistics Expert who's helped two Nurses overturn their Serial Killer Convictions on AppealPsychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud talks in-depth to Professor Richard Gill - one of the key experts who has helped overturn two recent nurse serial killer convictions You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.c...2023-09-121h 38
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsLucy Letby - the untold story from the key prosecution expert witness - Dr Dewi Evans talks to Dr Raj Persaud Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud talks in-depth to Dr Dewi Evans - one of the key prosecution expert witnesses about the Lucy Letby case You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...2023-09-051h 12
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhich member of the UK Royal Family was most mad for sex? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Born in New Zealand, Anne f...2023-02-071h 01
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsBest-selling author Johann Hari talks to Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? All over the world, our a...2023-02-071h 04
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAlexandra Durnford Executive Coach talks to Dr Raj Persaud about coaching and personal change You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? A London-based executive coaching & mediation practice. ...2022-12-0859 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDiet and Fitness Guru Rosemary Conley talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the psychology of motivation You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Rosemary Conley CBE is one of...2022-11-291h 01
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsJane Janse Van Rensburg Addictions Therapist talks to Dr Raj Persaud about why addicts become therapists You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Jane Janse Van Re...2022-11-291h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsRoxana Cardos Business Psychologist talks to psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud on the psychology of personal strengths You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Roxana is a Business Psychologist w...2022-11-2954 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychology of Music with Rock Legend and Executive Coach Peter Cook You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Peter Cook helps you navigate u...2022-11-291h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychology of the Greatest Cad and Bounder Ever in the World - Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon defends his ancestor - the first man to get off the Titanic You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon is an e...2022-08-181h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAn addictions counsellor explains the essence of personal changeYou can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Jane Janse van Rensburg is...2022-08-181h 02
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsPsychology of the Professional Executive Who Starts to Drink Too Much You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Clare outwardly had everything anyone c...2022-08-171h 01
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Serotonin Story - Depression Myth or Medical Miracle? Professor Joanna Moncrieff talks to Dr Raj Persaud You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Prof Joanna Moncrieff P...2022-08-0943 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWho Really Saved Freud From Himself? Andrew Nagorski talks to psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Saving Freud The R...2022-08-0243 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWill Robots Choose What Drugs We Take in the Future? Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud talks to a pioneer of AI drug discovery You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Peter Richardson https://www.b...2022-07-2159 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat Does Luxury Treatment in Psychiatry Look Like - Raj Persaud lifts the veil on how the wealthy get psychological help You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? George Georgas, Business Development Manager, talks t...2022-07-211h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Reluctant Carer talks to Dr Raj Persaud'Incredible. One of those rare books that should be dispensed on prescription to every household.' - Lucy Easthope, author of When the Dust Settles 'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound . . . like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. Your even older mum is now at home alone. The answer? Simple. Drop everything, go back and help. The reality? Not so straightforward. Suddenly, you’re a kid again, stranded in the...2022-07-0842 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow to stop worrying - Gwendoline Smith talks to Dr Raj PersaudGWENDOLINE SMITH - PSYCHOLOGIST, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER Trained as a clinical psychologist in the 1970’s, we were introduced to a bit of everything, sex therapy, behavioural therapy, couples therapy, working with phobias, depression, addictions and schizophrenia. The pallet of learning was extensive. As a combined result of my experience I specialise in: Depression Anxiety Work-related stress Worry Social anxiety PTSD I mostly work with adults and young adults. In today’s ‘urban jungle’, anxiety, in my opinion, prevails as the epidemic. The anxiety of the ‘Facebook’ world and brand advertising and social images of perfection, do take thei...2022-05-171h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow To Deal With Money Stress - the seven dollar millionaire confides with the psychiatristThe Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind Seven Dollar Millionaire ISBN: 978-1-119-85969-7 April 2022 304 Pages DESCRIPTION At last, a mindful book about money that anyone can appreciate and understand The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieving financial peace of mind. Finally, you can know how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out! In this book, you’ll find out...2022-05-051h 00
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychology of the Ukrainian Soldier - interview with a Psychologist who treats themDoes predicting the outcome of the war in Ukraine rest more on understanding the psychology of the Ukrainian soldier, than any other factor? Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud is in conversation with Dmytro Assonov, MD, MSc Assistant professor at the department of medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine Clinical psychologist at the Hospital for War Veterans "Forest Glade" of Ministry of Health of Ukraine. PhD thesis (currently writing) is related to the resilience of Ukrainian veterans. You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Go...2022-03-2639 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsMental Health of Ukraine - A psychiatrist based there explainsThe photograph accompanying this podcast is of Orest Suvalo, a volunteer and a psychiatrist in #Ukraine, speaks with patients at a medical point set up above Lviv Central Station. A doctor and psychiatrist, Orest Suvalo, talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the mental health situation in Ukraine From The Guardian Newspaper ‘They draw bombs, tanks and wishes for peace’: Ukraine’s child mental health crisis Theatre workshops and art classes have sprung up to offer temporary respite from war as doctors warn of widespread trauma https://www.theguardian.com/global...2022-03-2130 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan you achieve more Good Luck in your life? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? CONNECT THE DOTS THE A...2022-02-2139 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat Can Grief Teach Us About Ourselves? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Grief and Grieving a...2022-02-0838 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan you do therapy with no money? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? https://readinglist.click/sub/in-madness-stories-of-uncertainty-and-hope-sean-baumann-argues-for-a-more-inclusive-way-of-making-sense-of-mental-health/2021-10-1347 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDo we have free will? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument f...2021-05-0551 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow to Keep an Open Mind You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Richard Bett specializes in ancient G...2021-04-1534 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychology Behind The Movie The Shawshank Redemption You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? I guess it comes down t...2021-03-2630 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsMeghan Markle interview discussed by Associate Professor of Suicide Research Unit You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Thomas Niederkrotenthaler is as...2021-03-1539 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs Life A Miracle Beyond The Ability Of Physics To Explain It? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? The Demon in the Machine2020-10-2850 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAre you ignorant about the pandemic? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? https://press.princeton.ed...2020-09-0952 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow To Think Like Shakespeare - Scott Newstok discusses his new book You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Scott Newstok teaches lite...2020-08-1959 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan your intellect save you from the pandemic? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? An invitation to readers from every w...2020-07-0159 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDid Politicians Not Understand Basic Maths When It Comes to Understanding Covid-19? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Welcome to the we...2020-05-2939 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHave Historians Got It Completely Wrong Over How Pandemics Psychologically Impact People? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? The Flagellants Attempt to Repel t...2020-05-1044 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsPsychology of Working Remotely From Home You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Isobel Heyman, BSc, MBBS, PhD, F...2020-05-1041 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCovid-19 and Conspiracy Theory - Who To Believe In A Pandemic? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theory - W...2020-04-3048 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs The Plague Of Athens, over 2000 years ago Relevant to Today's Pandemic? Plaster cast bust of Thucydides (in the Pushkin Museum) from a Roman copy (located at Holkham Hall) of an early fourth-century BC Greek original Born c. 460 BC[1] Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos) Died c. 400 BC (aged approximately 72) Athens Thucydides from Ancient Greece - perhaps the first Historian - gives a famous Account of the Plague of Athens from over 2000 years ago - Ancient Greek Literary Scholar Jenna Colclough explains to Dr Raj Persaud the relevance to today's pandemic using her thesis researched while she was at the University of Western Ontario. You can also l...2020-04-2236 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Role of Leadership in the Pandemic Crisis - where are our Governments Going Wrong? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? In the Pandemic Crisis - w...2020-04-1654 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow To Cope With The Pointless Suffering Of The Pandemic You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? www.press.uchicago.ed...2020-04-1655 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs There A 'Social Cure' for the Mental Health Impact of the Pandemic? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? New Book: The N...2020-04-1442 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan Economics Be Taught In One Lesson?You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-ra... Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So...2020-04-1434 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIn the middle of the Pandemic - can you get people to do anything you want? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Introduction quoted from:...2020-04-1154 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDoes 'The Plague' by Albert Camus prophecy the current Pandemic? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Re-reading Camus’s The Plague in...2020-04-1048 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs There An Art To How To Drink Alcohol? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Professor Michael Fontaine discusses his n...2020-04-1036 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsSurviving Trauma of Covid-19 You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Professor Jonathan Bisson is a p...2020-04-0640 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsPsychology of Coping with Quarantine You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Psychology of Coping wi...2020-03-3127 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsTyphoid Mary - the first confirmed 'super-spreader' in history? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? The Psychology of th...2020-03-2452 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsPsychology of Pandemics - An Epidemic of Fear? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Did you know that research has fo...2020-03-1240 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDoes the Secret To Happiness Lie in a Maths Formula? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? The Calculus of Ha...2019-12-0444 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsTHE INEQUALITY PARADOX You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? In his illuminating new book, Douglas Mc...2019-11-2741 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? The Seven Deadly Sins of P...2019-10-0148 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsSurgeon David Sellu talks to Raj Persaud about being wrongfully imprisoned for the death of a patient You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? from amazon.co.uk...2019-09-051h 03
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow to stop taking the drugs your doctor prescribed You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? David Taylor is Di...2019-07-0422 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs Lithium the Penicillin of Mental Health? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? Prior to the Se...2019-07-0457 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan you control a tic? Professor Eileen Joyce one of the world's leading authorities on tics and tic disorders talks to Dr Raj Persaud about tics. Professor Joyce obtained her first degree, PhD and medical degree from the University of Cambridge. She trained in psychiatry at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals and spent several years as a research worker at the Institute of Psychiatry, where she was a Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Mental Health, and the USA National Institutes of Health. Before moving to UCL/UCLH, she was Professor of Neuropsychiatry at Imperial College London. ...2019-07-0323 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCan you get addicted to risk? Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as Consultant psychiatrist in Addictions. Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in the 2019 New Year’s Honours for Services to Addiction Treatment and to Research. She was elected President of the Medical Women’s Federation in 2018 having been Vice President from 2014 to 2016 and President Elect 2016-2018. She is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College and the past co-recipient of Medical Research Council grant...2019-07-0344 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCould An Aphorism Change Your Life? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? A Theory of th...2019-05-2940 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsTimefulness - Marcia Bjornerud talks to Dr Raj Persaud about her new book Marcia Bjornerud Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. But spans of hundreds of years—the time a molecule of carbon dioxide resides i...2019-05-1637 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDo you know how to navigate life? On Freedom Cass R. Sunstein From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.googl...2019-03-0526 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDid Winston Churchill ever really suffer from Clinical Depression? Did Sir Winston Churchill suffer from the ‘black dog’? Anthony M Daniels, J Allister Vale First Published October 26, 2018 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076818808428 This article is in a series from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine on Winston Churchill's illnesses Introduction In 1969, the psychiatrist Anthony Storr published an essay Churchill: the Man,1 reprinted in 1980 as the first chapter of his book, Churchill's Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind.2 This essay established very firmly in the public imagination that Sir Winston Churchill (Figure 1) suffered throughout his life from recurrent attacks of seve...2019-02-1343 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow To Keep Your Cool - Timeless advice on anger management from Seneca You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? https://press.princeton.ed...2019-02-1231 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhy are children now being prescribed anti-depressants more than any other drug? You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? from David Healy's bl...2019-01-3141 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsProfessor Ed Bullmore discusses with Dr Raj Persaud his new book 'The Inflamed Mind'The Inflamed Mind A radical new approach to depression by Edward Bullmore You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.raj...2019-01-2347 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsPsychology of Walls, Immigrants, Gated Communities and Rap MusicCharis E. Kubrin Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph.D., University of Washington You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... https://itunes.apple.com/us...2019-01-2022 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Tyranny of Metrics The Tyranny of Metrics Jerry Z. Muller You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr...2019-01-1553 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsGENETICS IN THE MADHOUSE - Raj Persaud talks to Theodore Porter about his new bookThe untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11242.html You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on the app.2018-09-1749 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat is Violence in the Movies Really About?You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and google play store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223? David Humbert discusses with psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud his new book on Violence in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock and uses...2018-05-1956 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Voices Within - Charles Fernyhough discusses hearing voices and inner speech with Dr Raj Persaud You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and google play store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 The Voices Within http://www.charlesfernyhough.com/tvw.html The Voi...2018-05-1542 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhere There Is No Psychiatrist Interview with Dr Charlotte HanlonDr Charlotte Hanlon is a British psychiatrist who lives and works in Ethiopia, linked to Addis Ababa University and King’s College London. Dr Hanlon provides clinical supervision to psychiatric trainees working in general adult psychiatry in Ethiopia. She co-ordinates a PhD programme in mental health epidemiology at Addis Ababa University, from which 6 Ethiopian students have graduated and a further 20 students are enrolled. Her research interests focus on public mental health, women’s mental health, cultural validity of measurement, intervention studies and health service and system implementation research. She is research director for the Programme for Improving Mental health carE...2018-04-1138 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsHow to spot a deluded person https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delusions-Understanding-understandable-Peter-McKenna-ebook/dp/B07314FDKD Delusions, in their many different manifestations, are central to the concepts of madness and psychosis. Yet what causes them remains in many ways a complete mystery. McKenna's Delusions is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle one of the most arresting phenomena in psychiatry: an in-depth and critical review of what delusions are, the forms they can take and how they might be explained from both psychological and biological perspectives. Delusions covers key topics such as the clinical features of delusions, the disorders they are seen in, other oddities...2018-02-1255 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCould you live to 120 years old? A new diet and research program suggests this is possibleCould you live to 120 years old? Is all disease just a manifestation of a more fundamental biological process referred to aging? Why do we get old and get sick? A revolutionary new approach to aging and disease is being pioneered by one of the foremost authorities on longevity Dr Valter Longo. Dr Raj Persaud interviews him about his latest research and new book. Professor Longo's research suggests that living to 120 is entirely possible and that the average human lifespan could end up being 110 if the right diet and lifestyle is followed. From https://www.penguin.co...2018-02-0833 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs Human Progress Inevitable? You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 If you are having difficulty viewing...2018-01-0646 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychology of The Whistleblower Press Release• Sat, November 04, 2017, 7:16 PM You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 If you are ha...2018-01-045h 02
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs it Possible To Attain Any Goal You Desire? Sean Young's new book 'Stick With It' describes the science of personal changeYou can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 If you are having difficulty viewing...2017-12-2437 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat Do Our Faces Reveal About Us? You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 If you are having difficulty viewing...2017-12-2239 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs the secret to happiness revealed by Buddhism and Stocism?You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 If you are having difficulty viewing...2017-12-2031 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDoes Your Self Exist? Robert Levine discusses his book 'Stranger In The Mirror' FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO 'STRANGER IN THE MIRROR - THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE SELF' BY ROBERT LEVINE (NEW PAPERBACK EDITION) PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO Introduction Theseus’s Paradox I used to subscribe to People. Then I switched to Us. Now I just read Self. —My friend Lenny I love hearing people talk about their “real” selves. I still remember my first girlfriend, the seemingly perfect Natalie Duberman,1 spooking me with the warning: “Be careful. You don’t know the real me.” Was she a werewolf...2017-12-1953 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIs Your Soul A Machine? George Makari Talks to Raj Persaud about his new book You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience then any other app and is available free from itunes app store and Google Play Store - click on these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 Soul Machine THE INVENTION OF THE MOD...2017-12-1632 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAre you disenchanted with life? Professor Adrian Furnham discusses his latest book, 'Disenchantment' with Dr Raj Persaud FROM www.bloomsbury.com/uk/disenchantment-9781472949745/ About Disenchantment Workplace disenchantment can cause major issues for organisations – productivity decreases, employees can turn actively destructive and individual health and well-being can deteriorate. Most people start a job happy enough and determined to do a good job – if they are lucky, they have found a job which suits their skills and values. They may be eager, hopeful and willing to be engaged. So when and why do they become disenchanted and demotivated? In this new book, Adrian Furnham and Luke Treglown look at several theories into job s...2017-12-1227 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsRaj Persaud talks to Prof Timothy Pytell about Viktor Frankl, possibly the second most famous psychiatrist of the 20th CenturyFirst published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl’s life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the “third Viennese school” amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, i...2017-11-1629 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAre You Getting Enough Sleep? Professor Russell Grant Foster talks to Dr Raj PersaudRussell Grant Foster, CBE, FRS FMedSci is a British professor of circadian neuroscience, the Director of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute. www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-in-conversation/healthy-body-healthy-mind/russell-foster 'Fundamentally, what I'm excited about and trying to understand is how the core mechanisms of sleep and 24-hour circadian rhythms are generated and regulated within the central nervous system, and then use this fundamental knowledge for translational studies – to inform therapeutic approaches that will improve the quality of life for individuals and their family across a bro...2017-06-2727 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Strange Case Of Oliver Sacks Professor Anthony David published a commentary in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry in September 2012 entitled, Functional disorders, Cartesian dualism and stigma: where does the dualism really lie? He was responding to a reappraisal of one of Oliver Sacks' lesser known books describing the doctor's own paralysis and body image disorder. He writes: This is a timely reappraisal of one of Oliver Sacks' less well-known works. The authors argue that the sense of detachment from his leg that Sacks felt after his injury and surgery was ‘functional/psychogenic’. Stone and colleagues take Sacks' account at face value and are at...2017-06-2629 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsAre those sympathetic to violent protest and terrorism suffering from psychological problems?Professor Kamaldeep Bhui works as a clinical academic psychiatrist in London. He qualified in Medicine at the United Medical Schools of Guy's & St Thomas in 1988, and subsequently worked at the Maudsley, Institute of Psychiatry, Guy's, King's, St Thomas' Hospitals and Medical Schools being appointed to his first consultant clinical academic post as a senior lecturer in 2000. He was appointed Professor in 2003 at QMUL. Previously he was a Wellcome Training Fellow in Health Services Research and Senior Medical Officer in the policy research programme at Department of Health. He is Director at the Cultural Consultation Service at QMUL...2016-11-2817 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsSome surprising causes of mental illness - interview with Ardesheer Talati Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical CenterRaj Persaud talks to Ardesheer Talati. Ardesheer Talati’s research focuses on understanding long-term clinical, behavioral, and neurobiological problems in offspring that result from prenatal exposures. Two particular areas of interest are tobacco and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant exposures during pregnancy. Although the rates of smoking have decreased in the general population, about 5-10% of women smoke during pregnancy today. On the other hand, the rates of antidepressant medication use have been rising. When used in pregnancy, both nicotine and SSRIs cross the placental and the blood-brain barriers and thus can enter the developing fetal bra...2016-11-2825 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhy are the children of depressed parents more likely to die earlier and from unnatural causes?Dr Raj Persaud talks to Professor Myrna Weissman about what happens to the children of depressed people HEADLINE FINDING OF THIS MAJOR NEW STUDY: There was increased mortality in the children whose parents had serious depression (5.5% compared with 2.5%) due to unnatural causes, with a nearly 8-year difference in the mean age at death (38.8 years compared with 46.5 years in the control group - children of parents without depression). From The American Journal of Psychiatry Volume 173, Issue 10, October 01, 2016, pp. 1024-1032 Offspring of Depressed Parents: 30 Years Later M...2016-11-2720 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsCould warming up the body cure depression?Raising Body Temperature Relieves Depression Symptoms, Small Study Finds www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/raising-body-temperature-relieves-depression-symptoms-small-study-finds/48472 Madison, Wisconsin — Raising the body temperature of depressed volunteers to the equivalent of a mild fever improved their symptoms of major depression for as long as six weeks after a single treatment, results from a new study show. Researchers led by Dr. Charles Raison of the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a small, double-blind trial to test whole-body hyperthermia as a novel treatment for major depression. They evaluated the depres...2016-11-0131 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat roles do chance and luck play in our lives?From the Princeton University Press site: From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importance of luck in their success, why that hurts everyone, and what we can do about it How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In r...2016-10-2129 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDoes Extremism Protect You From Depression?Professor Jeremy Coid completed medical training at Sheffield University and training in Forensic Psychiatry at the Maudsley and Broadmoor Hospitals. He was trained in research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, where he completed his MD. As Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist he established the medium secure service to East London for mentally disordered offenders. He has extensive experience of giving evidence in court as an expert witness in cases of serious violence, sexual offending, and on childcare. He has been an advisor to the Department of Hea...2016-10-1929 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsEGO IS THE ENEMY - RYAN HOLIDAY IN CONVERSATION WITH RAJ PERSAUDEgo Is The Enemy is a new book published by best-selling author Ryan Holiday and is a philosophical exploration of difficulties we create for ourselves in life. Early in our careers, Ryan argues, ego impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, ego can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, ego magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back. The book draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. Using the stories of people like William T...2016-07-1423 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsIf you hear voices - does that mean you are going to go insane?Dr Kelly Diederen is a neuroscience researcher based at the University of Cambridge and has recently published a paper in the academic journal ‘Psychological Medicine’ which follows up a group of adults who hear voices but who are not formally diagnosed as psychotic – what happens to these people over a period of time? Daalman K, Diederen KMJ, Hoekema L, van Lutterveld R, Sommer IEC (2016), “Five year follow-up of non-psychotic adults with frequent auditory verbal hallucinations: are they still healthy?” Psychological Medicine 1-112016-07-0429 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Psychiatry of 'Breaking Bad' - Crystalline methamphetamine use and abuseProfessor Michael Farrell FRCP FRCPsych is the Director of NDARC (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre). He moved to Sydney from London in March 2011 following his appointment to NDARC. Prior to joining NDARC he was Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London. His extensive research interests include treatment evaluation, including the development of the National Treatment Outcomes Profile, a brief outcomes measurement instrument for drug and alcohol dependence. He has a long standing interest in drug dependence in prisons and within the wider criminal justice system. He has been a member of the...2016-06-3018 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Euthansia Program in Nazi-Psychiatry - Dr Michael Von Cranach talks to Dr Raj Persaud about German Psychiatry in the Nazi era.The “Euthanasia “ Program in Nazi-Psychiatry Dr Michael Von Cranach, an eminent German Psychiatrist, discusses with Dr Raj Persaud his research into the Nazi era, at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Congress, London, 27th of June 2016. More than 200000 psychiatric patients and handicapped persons where murdered in Germany between 1939 and 1945 by doctors and nurses. Alexander Mitscherlich, rapporteur of the Nuremberg Medical Trials wrote 1947, but published decades later,: ” Their atrocities were so unrestrained and at the same time organised with such technical bureaucratic coldness, malice and bloodthirstiness, that no one can read about it without feeling...2016-06-2930 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsProf Frank Schneider discusses mass murder of psychiatric patients during World War 2Professor Frank Schneider, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Aachen and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, also Past President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the role of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in the mass murder of psychiatric patients which occurred in Germany during the Second World War at the hands of Nazis and Nazi ideology. How was it that elite doctors and psychiatrists, caring and highly accomplished clinicians, could so rapidly be transformed into...2016-06-2921 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsA victim of stalking describes her harrowing storyWhat is it like to be stalked? In this astonishing interview a victim of stalking describes in vivid detail what it feels like to be stalked. Do her experiences explain why stalkiing has been described as a kind of psychological rape or terrorism?2016-06-2748 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsDoes Eating More Fish Cure or Prevent Depression?Walk into any health food shop and you would think that omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) were a panacea for all ills - the hype for these dietary supplements arises from recent research which appeared to find various benefits but now a study published by Brian Hallahan and colleagues attempts to pool all the data accumulated on the subject and cut through to the truth. From the original recently published paper by Brian Hallahan and colleagues Efficacy of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids in the treatment of depression* Brian Hallahan, Timothy Ryan, Joseph R. H...2016-06-1324 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsBeing A Syrian Refugee - is this the toughest test of anyone's mental health?Interview with Ruth Wells - lead author on new paper on mental health of Syrian Refugees published in the British Journal of Psychiatry - From the introduction in the paper: The United Nations (UN) has labelled the current Syrian conflict as the worst humanitarian crisis that has occurred within the first part of the 21st century. It is estimated that there are in excess of 4 million displaced Syrian refugees in the Middle East and over 629 000 who have been displaced to Jordan, the focus of this review. Although many displaced Syrians live in refugee camps, the largest being...2016-06-1331 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsThe Quotable Jung - Tony Woolfson taks to Raj Persaud about the latest book on Carl Gustav Jung
TONY WOOLFSON, PH.D.
Editor The Philemon Foundation
From the Philemon Foundation website: philemonfoundation.org/about-philemon/about-the-foundation/
Tony was a university teacher of arts and humanities until he decided to accompany his partner, Judith Harris, to Zürich where she trained at the C. G. Jung Institute. While in Zürich, Tony undertook intensive study of depth psychology and religion both independently and through attending classes at the Institute. He taught at the Zürich Institute and continues to study, write, and teach in the area of psychology and religion. He col...2016-02-1929 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhat's wrong with modern psychiatry?Hugh Middleton discusses his new book 'Psychiatry Reconsidered', with Dr Raj Persaud - his book is a n exciting critique of many of the serious problems with modern psychiatry, including fundamental questions he raises over issues such as diagnosis, treatment and the medical model.
Hugh Middleton is both an Associate Professor of the School of Sociology and Social Policy and an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist. Hugh qualified in medicine in 1974 (Cambridge and St George's), became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1976, completed an MD (Cambridge) in 1980, became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists...2016-01-1438 min
Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsElectro-Convulsive or 'Shock' Therapy - what is it like to revceive it?Dr Raj Persaud talks to a lady who received ECT or shock treatment after a prolonged and severe bout of depression. What is it like to be treated with this therapy? What kind of problems lead doctors to consider using it? Are there side-effects? In the long-run is it worth it? Does this treatment work? Is the reality of such a treatment anything like it's portrayal in Hollywood films? All these questions and more are tackled in this rare interview with someone who has actually received ECT.
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Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcastsWhy do authors write fiction? Professor James Hynes discusses with Dr Raj PersaudFrom The Great Courses website:
http://www.thegreatcourses.co.uk/courses/writing-great-fiction-storytelling-tips-and-techniques.html
Whether you’re huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to write a novel, storytelling is fundamental to human nature. But as any writer can tell you, the blank page can be daunting. It’s tough to know where to get started, what details to include in each scene, and how to move from the kernel of an idea to a completed manuscript.
Writing great fiction isn’t a gift re...2015-08-0529 min