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PODCAST

The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

Podcasters David Jones & Dr Naomi Murphy

Can institutional culture challenge your mental health? What if your job makes you feel shame, sadness, grief, disgust and fear? What if you are expected not to feel? Or you are expected to be relentlessly competitive? What it’s like to live or work in a prison? Does working with people who commit murder, child abuse and rape affect people who work in prisons and the wider criminal justice system? How do people survive and thrive when facing significant challenges to our emotional health over a

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01:22:11

130. Patrick Mills: How systemic is sexual abuse...

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2023/04/19

We’re really excited about today’s guest. He will be a familiar name to many. Pat Mills has been a successful writer and editor of popular culture from the age of 20, developing comics, novels, science fiction, film and game work. Perhaps best-known as the developer of Judge Dredd and writer of Charley’s War, a long running anti-war saga that sells throughout Europe, all of Pat’s stories are about fighting abusive authority. That trait extends to the catholic church and his experiences as a

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01:05:21

129. Ashley Conway: How False Memory Syndrome has...

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2023/04/12

AshleyConway is a counselling psychologist who has worked with clients with severe trauma for over twenty-five years. He has a special interest in memory of trauma, particularly of childhood abuse. He is a co-editor of and contributor to the international award-winning book Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced. He is currently Chair of the charity CDS-UK (Clinic for Dissociative Studies), which helps provide therapy for clients suffering severe dissociative problems, which can emerge as a

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01:05:28

128. James Wong (of A Band of Brothers): reducing...

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2023/04/05

James Wong currently serves as Chief Development Officer (CDO) at A Band of Brothers (https://abandofbrothers.org.uk/). He is accountable for creating sustainable fundraising avenues and revenue streams in realising Abandofbrothers’ mission. James believes in laying down healthy foundations for our future generations. After many years of feeling frustration and desperation in his efforts, he has found new hope, meaning and personal potency by coming together in community to share the responsibility

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01:08:47

127. Poet Hugh Venables: How and why journalling is...

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2023/03/29

Many of our podcast conversations have engaged with the idea of thinking, how to encourage, to change, to stop. This discussion is also about thinking but approaching it from an oblique angle. Journaling and poetry, two activities that involve getting thoughts out of ones mind and written down on paper. Hugh Venables is a Yorkshire-based writer and poet. He is passionate about the power of words. A selection of his poetry is available at hughvenablespoetry.com You can find a transcript of this

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01:00:20

126. Dan Lawrence, Psychosis, trauma and use of...

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2023/03/22

Dan Lawrence is a forensic psychologist who is based in a secure mental health service in south wales where he provides input into medium and low secure services for men. He is also a PhD student, associate tutor and academic supervisor at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He conducted an important scoping study into the effect of restrictive practices in adult forensic mental health services. D Lawrence et al. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14999013.2021.1887978?journalCode=ufmh20 "The

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125. Alex Busansky & George Carter Impact Justice and...

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2023/03/15

Alex Busansky (president of Impact Justice) and George Carter Impact/Justice Today we are pleased to be meeting with Alex Busansky. Alex began his career as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 1987. For 12 years, he handled homicides, serious domestic and other family violence, and sex abuse cases. He moved on to found Impact Justice, a national innovation and research center based in Oakland, CA and Washington, DC, which works to create a more humane and restorative system

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01:00:24

124. Margie Wright: What is Transpersonal...

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2023/03/08

One of the pleasures of our Locked up Living conversations, for us, is that we are always meeting people who come with different experience and a different perspective. But always the underlying tenets ar the same, sensitivity, thoughtfulness and trust. Such a person is Margie Wright. Margie Wright bio. When I was a teenager growing up in Zimbabwe I used to imagine, one day working as a psychotherapist but I never said it out loud as my family seldom talked about or showed those things called

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01:07:18

123. Rick Bradford author of The Empathy Gap: Why do...

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2023/03/01

In this fascinating and challenging conversation Dr Bradford talks about his journey towards a realisation that the male/female disadvantage debate is much more complex than it may seem. But it is always very difficult and sometimes dangerous to talk about. Dr Rick Bradford has enjoyed a successful career in physics and engineering, he has become increasingly drawn to investigating men’s issues in recent decades, and has gained much respect for his insightful blogging and his encyclopaedic book on

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51:23

122. Shona Minson: Are you at risk of vicarious trauma?

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2023/02/22

The first sentence of this podcast will probably resonate with many people. Shona Minson courageously talks about the impact upon her health and wellbeing of working intimately with traumatised children and mothers. It is a very honest conversation and we are grateful to Shona for sharing her reflections with us. Shona is currently a British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology. Since March 2020 she has been researching the impact of COVID-19 prison lockdowns on children who

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01:00:09

121. Edson Hato - How diversity strengthens...

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2023/02/15

Edson Hato is an award winning executive who transforms multi-billion global companies, start-ups and scale ups through a process called “rehumanisation”. He has 20 years experience of helping businesses transform their culture to promote talent, leadership and organisational development, performance, diversity and inclusion. He started his career at Price Waterhouse Cooper but has since worked as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Astra Zeneca, UBS, Philip Morris and ING group. Transcript

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40:42

120. Eden, Court Reporter.Workplace bullying in...

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2023/02/08

Bullying at work is common and particularly pernicious when it comes from your manager. They can often become obsessed and expend enormous resources to catch you out or undermine your position. Todays conversation is from the heart as we touch upon matters that have personal meaning. Our guest is Eden. Eden is a court reporter and has worked as court reporter for two years now. She attends virtual employment Tribunals to take notes and share findings predominantly in whistleblowing hearings after

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01:03:44

119. Dean Kingham, prison lawyer: Is the parole...

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2023/02/01

Dean has practiced in prison law for around 15 years. He is often at the forefront of the main challenges protecting the rights of prisoners and viewed as someone who works tirelessly to expose injustice and a lawyer who does not shirk from representing those for whom antipathy is to be expected from the courts, or the general public. In 2020, he was named public law legal aid lawyer of the year, which recognised the fact he is often at the forefront of the challenging advancing prisoner rights. He

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01:08:16

118. Caroline Purvey and Daniel Wood: The ’Total...

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2023/01/25

Caroline Purvey has dedicated over a decade to creating a unique, sustainable, cost-effective programme to eradicate unnecessary suffering from stress, overwhelm, and trauma. Her established and trusted brand TRE UK® delivers the Total Release Experience® programme which has transformed the lives of men, women, and children globally. Author of #1 bestseller ‘Feel It To Heal It’ Caroline comes highly recommended by professionals including doctors, counsellors, therapists, and psychologists. Her

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38:36

117. Ali Coles & Neil Winter: Art Psychotherapy -...

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2023/01/18

Ali and Neil talk about the work that they did together and how the art therapy 'fitted' and helped in ways that other therapies had missed. Ali Coles is an Art Psychotherapist with Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Lecturer at the University of South Wales; She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Art Therapy; She is also co-editor of Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: New Territories, Techniques and Technologies which is due to be published in

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01:14:44

116. Robert Forde. Insider/outsider a critical...

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2023/01/11

I was brought up in Belfast and London, and have since lived all around England, and for 10 years in West Berlin (five years before the Wall was opened and five years after). I went to university in the late 60s, and went to work as a prison psychologist in 1971, based in several different prisons, before going to the Home Office Research Unit in London in 1978. In 1980 I left the Home Office and became a househusband for a couple of years. I then spent a couple of years as an education welfare

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01:03:49

115 Libby Nugent on group analysis, psychology and...

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2023/01/04

Dr Libby Nugent is a Clinical Psychologist and group work practitioner of Group Psychoanalysis. She specialises in sexual health, complex trauma and group psychology. She has a longstanding interest in the need to connect with creative ways of thinking deeply about ourselves, each other, our society and the many identities we live. Libby has an online workshop series January 2023 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fairytales-and-formulation-in-psychology-and-psychotherapy-tickets-458257770327 Libby

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36:30

114. David Bayliff Fghting addictions and the long...

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2022/12/28

* Shortly after we spoke with David he messaged us to say that hehad been approved to work in his local prison. He said "The Governor is 100% going to clear me, "I will officially be the 1st person with that length of criminal past to be given clearance into his prison" that's what the governor has said to my line manager. So I'm chuffed about that because it shows that change in culture and mindsets can happen at the higher levels of the criminal justice system." David Bayliff is a worker with

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40:24

113. Dalton Harrison. The poet talks about being a...

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2022/12/21

David first had the pleasure of meeting Dalton when visiting Ripon House, an exceptional approved premises for women in Leeds. Dalton had left the hostel some time earlier but returned to share some of his experiences with me and my colleagues. Dalton Harrison is the founder of StandFast Productions (a collective of ex-offenders who use art and performance to tell their stories) and has worked as a teaching assistant with the Inside-Out Project at Durham University. Dalton has written articles for

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01:00:14

112. Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes. The human...

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2022/12/15

Video link which includes Alberto's diagrams is here: https://youtu.be/qDRqJ93shLM Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University of Sheffield. He is a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University of Bath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment at the Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica), and an international consultant in prison architecture. As a

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59:08

111. Diane Wills: Working with those who have...

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2022/12/14

Diane is a former probation officer, a social worker and a psychotherapist. She now works independently in a variety of roles offering therapy, consultation, professional supervision, quality assurance and training for individuals and organisations. She is a Trustee for Circles South West. Diane also offers support to other practitioners working in the area of risk assessment and management. A Practical Guide to Working with Sex Offenders by Diane Wills and Andrew

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