Programme exploring the limits and potential of the human mind
Dr Raj Persaud looks at Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, the current treatment recommended for depression and other emotional disorders. He visits a pilot project in East London.
DetailsThe use of mystery shoppers to test the value of services is spreading to the NHS and to mental health services. All In The Mind investigates.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsWould a new name for schizophrenia destigmatise the condition and lead to better treatments? Mindfulness is a technique used successfully in depression. Can it help for stress?
DetailsClaudia Hammond speaks to the UK's first Mental Health Liaison Officer to see how he can help those with mental health problems have better experiences when dealing with police.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsMental Health On the Battlefield: Claudia Hammond reports on the UK's first ever study tracking the mental health of the military while they were on active combat in Iraq.
DetailsClaudia Hammond examines the rising popularity of mental health blogs. Two prominent bloggers explain why they think the blogosphere is proving to be so important in mental health.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring the limits and potential of the human mind and examining the arguments surrounding mental health.
DetailsClaudia Hammond explores current developments in psychiatry. She takes a virtual reality ride on the London Underground designed to test paranoid thoughts in the population.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud sees how the latest computer gaming technology is being developed into a therapeutic tool for combat troops suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
DetailsClaudia Hammond finds out how the hundreds of Romanian orphans who came to the UK 20 years ago have coped with their appalling treatment as babies.
DetailsClaudia Hammond talks to the new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Prof Dinesh Bhugra.
Details4/6. Dr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsClaudia Hammond reveals new evidence on how children's brains work and looks at how this could help children learn.
DetailsTo mark Dementia Awareness Week, Claudia Hammond asks how we are placed to deal with the fact that, in just 20 years, one and a half million of us will have a fatal brain disease.
DetailsThe Pyschiatrists' Bible is being rewritten, and the future of Asperger's as a syndrome hangs in the balance. Claudia Hammond investigates.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsIQ testing has long been controversial, but now scientists say testing our 'working memory' instead would be a much more accurate predictor of later academic success.
DetailsA psychoanalyst explains why fund managers hitched themselves so firmly to the bloated financial bubble and why the whiz-kid financiers really believe they can beat the market.
DetailsExcessive worry can ruin lives. Claudia Hammond looks at some simple techniques that can break this debilitating habit. Plus, a new study could prevent teenagers from reoffending.
DetailsClaudia Hammond talks to researchers who have studied a rare condition which prevents a person from making facial expressions and discovers how they can be helped.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud meets a woman who has contracted Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 52. She and her husband talk about their plans for the future.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry. She follows Janey Antoniou, a woman who hears constant voices in her head.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud hears from refugee doctors in the UK who are using their medical skills to mentor asylum seekers suffering from mental illness.
DetailsClaudia Hammond hears about some surprising side effects of drugs used to treat conditions like schizophrenia and why they particularly effect women.
DetailsClaudia Hammond finds out about the practical and emotional support that is being offered to families of children in intensive care.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsSex offenders are among the most reviled people in society. Claudia Hammond meets offenders and the volunteers whose support is helping to reintegrate them back into society.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsClaudia Hammond looks at Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to see if it is, as some people think, the easy option in helping them come to terms with mental illness.
DetailsClaudia Hammond reports on the latest findings in neuroscience and mental health.
DetailsA father describes his son's 20-year struggle with schizophrenia. Tim Salmon tells Claudia Hammond about the devastating consequences of this illness.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsClaudia Hammond reports on hopeful new research to help anxious children. Plus how to stop yourself boring people with the same old anecdotes.
DetailsClaudia Hammond travels to Lisbon to find out how decrimalising drugs could help addicts, after Portugal became the only European country to do so, for all drugs, in 2001.
DetailsHuman foibles and forensic science: Claudia Hammond investigates the dramatic challenge to traditional forensic investigation from psychologists and neuroscientists.
DetailsClaudia Hammond reports from Cardiff on trials of Magnetic Seizure Therapy, a treatment for major depressive illnesses that it is hoped will replace Electroconvulsive Therapy.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring the human mind. This programme considers new studies on the possibility of judging personality by appearance.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry. Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have their say.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud is joined by Jonathan Moreno, Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia, to discuss the role of brain research in national defence.
DetailsDr Martin Seligman says psychology has spent the last 100 years studying how to be miserable; perhaps it's time to learn how to be happy.
DetailsClaudia Hammond hears about the potential advantages to patients of video-taping them while they are suffering from hallucinations or a psychosic episode.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsClaudia Hammond reports on the latest findings in neuroscience and mental health.
DetailsWhy do we trust charismatic leaders? Claudia Hammond reports on how our brain becomes more trusting under their spell.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry.
DetailsAll in the Mind hears about Asberger, Bonnet, Korsakoff and Tourette, the emininent psychiatrist and neurologists whose names have become synonymous with a disease or a syndrome.
DetailsClaudia Hammond and guests discuss ways of dealing with self harm. The programme visits a clinic in Sheffield which has a zero-tolerance approach to self harm.
DetailsClaudia Hammond looks at how to prevent flashbacks, why music could effect our taste buds and how therapeutic design helps people with dementia.
DetailsCould hobbies like knitting help to keep depression at bay? Plus psychological research that could help us all to be more persuasive.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud investigates the recruitment crisis in the psychiatry profession. Royal College of Psychiatrists President Sheila Hollins discusses her plans to turn things around.
DetailsClaudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychiatry. She looks at projects that have been launched across the country, paying addicts to stay off drugs.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud is joined by David Owen to discuss The Hubris Syndrome and the intoxication of power.
DetailsSome think, when early maltreatment is involved, ongoing contact between adopted children and their birth parents causes long-term psychological harm. Claudia Hammond hears why.
DetailsAfter the election, what's the future for mental health care? Claudia Hammond hears new of budget cuts, and considers the future of mental health over the next five years.
DetailsClaudia Hammond explores how treatment for eating disorders can be a postcode lottery.
DetailsClaudia Hammond hears from scientists who built their own 'haunted room' in an attempt to show that they could induce a haunting by manipulating energy fields and sound.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud finds out how the latest developments in neuroscience are being used by Formula 1 teams to prepare their drivers for the track.
DetailsDr Raj Persaud considers the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which set international ethical standards about patient care. 60 years on, has the profession strayed from these standards?
DetailsAs mental health services brace themselves for cuts, the new coalition government's Mental Health Minister, Paul Burstow, talks to Claudia Hammond on All In The Mind.
DetailsFollowing the Lord Bradley Review of the Criminal Justice System, Claudia Hammond examines recommendations that aim to better serve those with mental illness in police custody.
DetailsJohn O'Donoghue gives Claudia Hammond a first hand account of life in and out of England's old asylums.
DetailsHow do parts of the brain interact? Claudia Hammond reports on the latest approaches. Plus exclusive information on a new initiative for online counselling support for cancer.
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