Clare McKenna

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Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna · Dealing with acute mental health conditions · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

But I suppose that's the distinction, isn't it, between the two roles.

So with your work in telehospital as a consultant, who would be the the patients that you'd see?

What would be the conditions you'd be dealing with?

When we were talking at that launch event about your your work and you you mentioned this to me, um, my first thought was I've never covered acute mental illness on the show in seven years.

So that was to my shame.

And the second was almost um another confession, a reaction of

how difficult that must be, how challenging that must be.

But there is a lot of stigma around acute ment mental illness that I sort of felt in myself as a natural reaction.

We have fear of these

conditions.

I I I'd really want to

have you on the show to help rid us all of that?

Is that something you come up against?

Yeah, and I know you've written many books, one of them Hearing Voices, The History of Mental Psychiatry in Ireland.

So how have things changed over the years, or are we still feeling the legacy of how we used to treat people with mental illness?

with these conditions than that idea of historically removing this person from society.

Well you're listening to Alive and Kicking here on News Talk with Claire McKenna and I'm joined in studio by professor of psychiatry Brendan Kelly.

We'll take a break, but when we come back, we'll talk about how you've added mindfulness and Buddhism as strings to your bow and why you made that decision.

You're welcome back to Alive and Kicking here on News Talk, where I'm joined in studio by Professor of Psychiatry Brendan Kelly.

And I mentioned before the outbreak, you've also studied mindfulness-based interventions and Buddhist studies.

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