BBC Radio 4 – A New Vision for Mental Health

Is Psychiatry Working?

Author: Editorial 24th February 2023 0 Comments

This series of 30 minute podcasts from BBC Radio 4 has six episodes: Crisis : Writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode discuss psychiatric crisis care with patients and clinicians. Detention : How do we treat people, often against their will, under…
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a coherent system

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Persecutory delusions, engine idling and taxi driver brains

Author: Editorial 10th December 2021 0 Comments

This episode of All in the Mind (BBC Radio 4) includes presenter Claudia Hammond talking to Prof. Daniel Freeman (clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford) about a trial into a new talking treatment – the Feeling Safe programme – for…
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collaborative practice, Key posts

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The Kindness Test

Author: Editorial 1st September 2021 0 Comments

The BBC has launched a questionnaire to find out what makes people be kind. The questionnaire has been devised by psychologists at the University of Sussex to explore people’s attitudes towards kindness – and designed to gain new insights to help…
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a wellbeing society

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