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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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All Episodes

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140. Ad Vingerhoets. The Psychology of Crying

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2023/05/24

Ad Vingerhoets is emeritus professor of Emotions and Wellbeing. He was affiliated with the Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology of Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. His areas of expertise are stress and emotions, and quality of life. In particular, his research on leisure sickness, homesickness and nostalgia, but especially crying, attracted much international media attention. In addition to his publications in academic journals and books (>400), he also wrote some

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139. Rina Bajaj. Counselling psychologist working...

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2023/05/17

Dr Rina Bajaj is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. She holds a first-class BA (Hons) in Psychology and a Doctorate (DPsych) in Counselling Psychology. Rina has over 15 years of experience and practices across London, UK. In 2017, she founded her private consultancy, Rina Bajaj Ltd, which offers a specialist therapeutic service for adults and young people providing counselling, CBT, clinical supervision, EMDR therapy, couples/relationship therapy, business consultation and coaching. She has

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138. Michelle Smith. What’s the impact on staff who...

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2023/05/10

After starting out in Law Michelle moved to become a forensic psychologist. In this conversation she tells us about the things she notices about being in a prison, how important support and supervision is and how some professions are denied this passage to mental health and wellbeing. Michelle Smith is a Chartered & Registered Forensic Psychologist who has worked across a range of forensic settings over the past 30 years including prisons, probation, secure hospital settings (both independent

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14:57

News and Current Affairs. Our contribution to this...

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2023/05/08

In this 15 minute clip we hear from Eden who describes the traumatic consequences of whistleblowing, James Wong who tells us about the importance of engaging young men with a sense of power and creativity to prevent their criminalisation, Dan Lawrence talking about the use of restrictive practices in secure hospitals, and Dean Kingham a solicitor who represents some of societies' most scorned people discussing why prison doesn't work.

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136 Wellbeing. Our submission for this British...

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2023/05/08

This is our 15 minute submission for the Wellbeing section of the British Podcast awards. In our podcasts we are always seeking positive experiences to balance some of the more damaging or corrosive experiences we encounter. Our well-being entry may be a quirky take but its based in real-life applications of psychological principles Including Hugh Venables discussing how to journal and why its so good for our mental health, Shona Herron describing her research into emptiness, Joe Sabien on

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135. Shona Minson. Submission for Interview Category...

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2023/05/08

So many great guests and conversations to choose from. But we needed a conversation that could be distilled down to 15 minutes. We chose Shona for our submission to the British Podcast Awards for the Interview category. This is a short clip where Shona describes the emotional impact of her work with the children of imprisoned parents. It was a powerful interview and we found it difficult to distill it down to 15 minutes. Let us know what you think. Maybe you'd have chosen differently?

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134 Sarah J Naylor. Coronation Day special....

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2023/05/06

Sarah J Naylor, The Midlife Success Coach “Making Midlife Magical!” Sarah helps midlife women in their 40s and 50s, rediscover, or even discover who they are as they reach this magical midpoint in their lives. She helps them put some ‘sass in their ass’ and propel themselves forward with strength and style. In fact, she’s on a mission to get mid-life women enjoying ALL aspects of their life again and that includes loving and valuing themselves, being cared for, enjoying great sex, kick-starting

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133. Vincent McGovern Challenging misandry in the...

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2023/05/03

Todays conversation is with Vincent McGovern, Vincent works part time as a shared parenting campaigner. He is also Chair of Central and North London Branches of Families Need Fathers, a Shared Parenting Charity. He has had 18 inquiries and five Ombudsman (including 3 Parliamentary & Health Services Ombudsman) investigations into malpracticing children's services all ending with findings in his favour including compensation. He addressed x2 the Euro Parliament Petitions Commission and forced the

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01:01:46

132. Iain Smith - Trauma informed law

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2023/04/26

Iain Smith is in his 30th year of being a lawyer. Started out in a civil firm where Robert Louis Stephenson trained. Created his own business in 1998 with Jim Keegan, Kings Counsel who was by then an experienced high court solicitor advocate. Iain concentrated on crime but also did children’s referral hearings and acted as a sports lawyer for international rugby stars. In 2018 he had an epiphany in reaction to being educated on the biological impact of trauma on the childhood brain. He suddenly

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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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131. Rafael Viola. (Trigger warning; sexual abuse...

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2023/04/19

This powerful conversation is with Rafael Viola. Rafael is a survivor of Catholic Church abuse, he is a campaigner fighting for change and accountability seeking justice for the atrocities that happened at CROOME COURT children's home . He was a core participant at the iiicsa inquiry himself and he with many others survivors were refused the opportunity to give oral evedence. He was shocked at the way survivors were sidelined while perpetrators and thise representing perpetrators seemed cosy and

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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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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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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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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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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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