The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast
Episodes
Depression - Paul's experience
02 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Paul talks to Dr Wojtek Wojcik about his experience of depression, and how the Depression Alliance helped with his recovery.
Depression in Urdu
28 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Developed by mental health service user group, Middlesbrough Hearts and Minds
Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallace
11 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis talks to Dr Chrissy Boardman about issues for the profession, the role of the consultant psychiatrist, and his work as Regis...
A Patients_journey
08 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Claire Dillon, consultant forensic psychiatrist talks to Alain, former patient, about his experience of being admitted to hospital.
Our invisible addicts
21 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Ilana Crome talks to Dr Owen Bowden-Jones about the newly published College report entitled Our Invisible Addicts, which deals with substanc...
Abreaction for conversion disorder: systematic review with meta-analysis
08 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Norman Poole is a locum consultant liaison psychiatrist, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Dr Poole trained in psychiatry at St George's Hospit...
Patients’ views of involuntary hospital admission
09 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Stefan Priebe, Chair for Social and Community Psychiatry at Barts and the London School of Medicine has been the principal investigator of a...
Internet addiction: prevalence, discriminant validity and correlates among adolescents in Hong Kong.
29 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr King-wa Fu is a Research Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), at the University of Hong Kong. Together with his c...
Supported employment: randomised controlled trial
15 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Louise Howard is Head of the new Section of Women’s Mental Health at the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiat...
Visiting a London school, which had recently suffered the suicide of a pupil.
13 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Healy is a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy and Lead Clinician of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond in London. He has worked for many year...
Autism, ethnicity and maternal immigration
01 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Daphne Keen is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician and honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s, London. Her clinical interests have largely ...
Interview with president
12 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dinesh Bhugra, Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry was elected unopposed as President of the Royal Colleg...
Journey to recovery
08 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ken Checinski talks to Michael (a member of the RCPsych Addictions Faculty User and Carer Committee) about his journey to recovery from a very seri...
Confectionery consumption in childhood and adult violence.
30 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Simon Moore is a psychologist working in the School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. He is co-lead on the Youth Alcohol Research Network and a mem...
Back from the brink
19 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Diane Goslar is a service user who attends an Alcohol Treatment Service in central London, now as an after-care patient. Here Diane talks with Dr Ken ...
Hubris Syndrome
10 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lord Owen discusses his recent book on Hubris Syndrome; Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power with Professor Peter Tyrer, Editor of the British Jo...
Psychiatric intensive care and low secure units: where are we now?
16 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Dominic Beer is based at the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Bracton Centre in Kent and has published a paper in the December issue of the Psychiatric...
Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin: 1993–2003
20 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kam Bhui is based at the Centre for Psychiatry, Barts & The London Medical School. Together with some co-authors, Professor Bhui has publish...
Alcohol-related dementia: a 21st-century silent epidemic?
31 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Susham Gupta is a specialist registrar in adult and old age psychiatry and is currently based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Together wit...
Communication and psychosis: it's good to talk, but how?
23 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rose McCabe is based at the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts, and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, Universit...
Emotional memory in bipolar disorder
23 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Marcia Kauer-Sant'Anna is based at the Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Mood Disorders Centre, Un...
Morphology of the corpus callosum at different stages of schizophrenia
23 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Mark Walterfang is a psychiatrist based at the Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne. Together with some co-authors, Dr Walterfang has pu...
Prevalence of common mental disorders in general practice attendees across Europe
12 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Michael King is based at the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London. Together with some co-authors, Professor King ...
Proposals for massive expansion of psychological therapies would be counterproductive across society
09 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr David Veale is based at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Together with Dr Derek Summerfield, he has published a debate piece i...
Efficacy of Quichua healers as psychiatric diagnosticians.
09 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mario Incayawa is based at Runajambi Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, in Otavalo, Ecuador. Here, he discusses his rece...
Effects of cannabidiol on schizophrenia-like symptoms in people who use cannabis.
17 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Morgan, based at the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London has produced a paper with co-author, Valerie Curran on the effe...
Virtual reality study of paranoid thinking in the general population
17 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Freeman is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. With some co-authors, he’s produced a paper published in the April...
Perceptions of disadvantage, ethnicity and psychosis.
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Paul Bebbington is Head of the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London. He and several co-authors have produced a pa...
Attributional style and depression
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Ball is a PhD student of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. She and several co-a...
Childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis.
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
E. David Klonsky is an associate Professor of Psychology, based at the Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, New York. Here he talks to Ra...
CATIE and CUtLASS: can we handle the truth?
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Shôn Lewis, based at the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester, talks to Raj Persaud about his editorial...
Cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attempts.
07 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D. is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Re...
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a potentially aggravating factor in BPD
03 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Martin Bohus, of Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Germany, talks to Raj Persaud about his recently published paper on attention-...
The classification of depression: are we still confused?
01 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
James Cole is an experimental psychology graduate from the University of Bristol. He is currently studying for his PhD at the Medical Research Council...
Brain activation in paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder during tasks of inhibitory control
08 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Katya Rubia talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the paper published in the January 2008 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on OCD in children bet...
Problems with the post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis and its future in DSM-V
08 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Raj Persaud speaks to Professor Gerald M Rosen about his editorial in the January 2008 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, which addresses ...
Non-traditional lifestyles and prevalence of mental disorders in adolescents in Goa, India
08 Feb 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of Psychiatry from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine talks to Dr Raj Persaud about his descriptive ...
Schizotypal cognitions as a predictor of psychopathology in adolescents
17 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Eve Johnston talks about her article on schizotypal cognitions as a predictor of psychopathology in adolescents with mild intellectual impai...
Influence of childhood adversity on health among male UK military personnel
17 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Amy Iversen talks about the influence of childhood adversity on health among male UK military personnel
Efficacy of three screening instruments in the identification of autistic-spectrum disorders
17 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tony Charman on the efficacy of three screening instruments for the identification of autistic-spectrum disorders
Clinical effectiveness and economic evaluation of treatments for anorexia nervosa in adolescents
07 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Simon Gowers speaks about the clinical effectiveness of treatments for anorexia and the cost-effectiveness of three treatment strategies for...
Psychophysiological and behavioural characteristics of individuals comorbid for APD and S-SPD
07 Dec 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast concentrates on a study examining people with comorbid schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder li...
Interventions for reducing the use of seclusion in psychiatric facilities: review of the literature
01 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast looks at the hot topic of interventions for reducing the use of seclusion in psychiatric facilities.
‘Uppers’ keep going up
01 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Focuses on a warning that a co-ordinated global response is needed to stop the increasing illegal use of amphetamines sold on the internet
Longitudinal grey-matter and glutamatergic losses in first-episode schizophrenia
01 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Are glutamatergic changes in patients with schizophrenia correlated with grey-matter losses during the first years of illness?
Genetic risk of depression and stress-induced negative affect in daily life
23 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Focuses on a study of genetic liability of depression in 279 pairs of female twins
Treatment of social phobia through pure self-help and therapist-augmented self-help
23 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Looks at the efficacy of pure self-help through written materials and self-help augmented by group sessions
Psychiatry & faith
22 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gerard Leavey, Assistant Director of the Research and Development, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department ...
Insight, psychopathology and global functioning in schizophrenia in urban Malawi
22 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Focuses on a study done in Malawi that investigates the relatonship between insight, psychopathology and functioning in 60 patients with schizophrenia...
Black and minority ethnic people more likely to be sectioned
05 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast about a systematic review looking at 'Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983'.
Increased risk of suicide in hot weather
05 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Relationship between daily suicide counts and temperature in England and Wales' from the August 2007 issue of the British Jou...
July 2007: Dr Robert Young
30 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Young people who self-harm' from the July 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
July 2007: Dr Miles Rinaldi
30 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Implementing evidence-based supported employment' from the July 2007 issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin
July 2007: Dr Steven Marwaha
30 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
July 2007: Dr Steven Marwaha This podcast focuses on 'Rates and correlates of employment in people with schizophrenia in the UK, France and Germany' f...
June 2007: Dr Helen Minnis
26 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Genetic, environmental and gender influences on attachment disorder behaviours' from the June 2007 issue of the British Journ...
Experience of severe mental illness
12 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Janey Antoniou's experience of severe mental illness
May 2007: Professor Til Wykes
15 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Cognitive remediation therapy in schizophrenia. Randomised controlled trial' from the May 2007 issue of the British Journal o...
May 2007: Professor Graham Thornicoft
15 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Prison mental health inreach services' from the May 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
May 2007: John Rathbone
15 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Chinese herbal medicine for schizophrenia. Cochrane systematic review of randomised trials' from the May 2007 issue of the Br...
June 2007: Professor Til Wykes
15 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Cognitive remediation therapy in schizophrenia. Randomised controlled trial' from the May 2007 issue of the British Journal o...
Apr 2007: Tamsin Ford, PhD
14 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on Psychiatric disorder among British children looked after by local authorities: comparison with children living in private hous...
Apr 2007: Professor Graham Thornicroft
14 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Fair assessment of the merits of psychiatric research' from the April 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Apr 2007: Dr Neil Greenberg
14 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on Enduring consequences of terrorism: 7-month follow-up survey of reactions to the bombings in London on 7 July 2005' from the A...
Mar 2007: Professor Matthew Hotopf
11 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Bias in psychiatric case–control studies: Literature survey' from the March 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry...
Mar 2007: Professor Antony David
11 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Assessing insight in schizophrenia: East meets West' from the March 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Mar 2007: Catherine Taylor
11 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on 'Impact of hospital consultants' poor mental health on patient care' from the March 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psych...
Feb 2007: Dr Paul Allen, Professor Chris Brewin and Dr Vanessa Pinfold
21 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our fifth podcast focuses on three papers from the February 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Jan 2007: Dr Leonie Boeing, Professor John Gunn and Professor Peter Tyrer
22 Jan 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our fourth podcast focuses on three papers from the January 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Dec 2006: Karen Jochelson, Dr Doyle, Dr Dealy, Dr Simon and Prof Goldberg
01 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Our third podcast focuses on four papers from the December 2006 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Nov 2006: Profs Adams and Glover and Drs Crawford and Morgan
01 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Our second podcast focuses on four papers from the November 2006 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry
Oct 2006: Dr Mike Slade and Professor Ming T. Tsuang
09 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Our first podcast focuses on two papers from the October 2006 British Journal of Psychiatry
ECT - Ruth's experience
09 Sep 0215
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Persaud in conversation with Ruth, about her experience of ECT and its effect on her depression