Gavin Francis

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Gavin Francis & Philippe Sands: The Unfragile Mind · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

Fear that you're not going to be able to flourish and achieve the ambitions that you wanted in life.

Fear of losing touch with the people that you love.

Because at the end of the day, our mental health is utterly about relationships.

It's not about serotonin levels.

And so I explore that with all of my patients to try and get a sense of how much they are, Scott's word, do you use it much?

You're thoroughed.

How thoroughed are you?

to the idea of a diagnosis, wedded, if you like.

And some people are just absolutely thorough to the idea of the diagnosis and other people are more flexible.

Yeah, increasingly, because I've got it wrong so many times.

You know, every doctor and you have, you know, you have like 30, 40 encounters a day with all kinds of different people of all educational levels, all kinds of backgrounds.

And you have to make judgments about how to approach things to get through the workload.

And of course you get it wrong sometimes.

You hope you get it wrong in a minority of times, but each time you get it wrong, you learn something.

And so after 20 years, I hope, or 30 years, I'm looking forward to that happens less and less.

What's happened?

Well, it's a million dollar question.

There's lots of different ideas, lots of different impressions, and there's clearly a huge number of factors working together in this big change that we've seen in our society.

And a big part of it is awareness, very positively.

Do you know that because it's talked about, it's talked about.

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