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The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

The Thinking Mind Podcast

"If you are interested in your mind, emotions, sense of self, and understanding of others, this show is brilliant."Learn something new about the mind every week - With in-depth conversations at the intersection of psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-development, spirituality and the philosophy of mental health.Featuring experts from around the world, leading clinicians and academics, published authors, and people with lived experience, we aim to make complex ideas in the mental health space accessible

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84:49

E107 - The Evolution of Psychiatry (w/ Dr. Adam Hunt)

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2025/01/17

Dr. Adam Hunt (PhD) is a post-doc researcher at the University of Cambridge and the host of the Evolving Psychiatry podcast which provides interviews, insights and an introduction to evolutionary psychiatry, with guest appearances from leading academics and psychiatrists.His upcoming book Specialised Minds which seeks to explains the existence of long term, common mental disorders, and common personality traits as products of the same evolutionary process, specifically of cognitive specialisa...

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E106 - Overcoming Cynicism in Mental Health...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2025/01/10

Today Alex chats with Dr. Alex Meaburn, a speciality doctor in psychiatry who has been working on the podcast behind the scenes. They discuss some of the limitations of psychiatry including problems with the biomedical model of depression, social-cultural reasons for mental health problems, crticisms of anti-depressants, dysfunctional attitudes towards suffering, the pros and cons of psychotherapy, the value of medication for ADHD and much more. Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant psychiatrist and...

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35:04

Why New Years Resolutions Fail (and What to Do Instead)

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2025/01/03

This podcast is a guide to making any kind of resolution towards long term behaviour change. It includes a step by step guide to implementing a new behaviour including choosing an area to work on, framing your resolution appropriately, setting an intention, making a plan, measuring your results, leveraging positive and negative emotions to your advantage, anticipating identity level change, and much more. Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant psychiatrist and a UKCP registered psychotherapist in-tra...

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68:48

Live at Trinity Rubgy Club (Men's Mental Health,...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/12/27

This week's episode is a live Q & A recorded at Trinity Rugby Club in South London. Dr. Alex is interviewed by Andrew Edwards the Director of Rugby at the club and they discuss various topics such as:- Modern problems men face- Difficulties with dating and relationships- Preventing anxiety and depression- Making friends with failure- The value of introspection - The importance of facing conflict directly- Using aggression in a healthy way And much more. Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant psyc...

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E105 - What do Video Games do to our Minds? (w/Dr....

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/12/20

Dr Hamilton Morrin is a psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and an NIHR academic clinical fellow at King's College London researching neuropsychiatric disorders using neurotechnology. He is a Trustee for Gaming the Mind, a charity that promotes positive mental health within the gaming community and the games industry by raising awareness of mental health challenges and reducing the stigma surrounding these issues.Find out more here:gamingthemind.orgBlueSky/X: @gamin...

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E104 - Deprescribing Anti-Depressants and Challenging...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/12/13

Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist, now working as a Clinical Research Fellow at UCL. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology and has edited a collection of papers in the journal on Discontinuing PsychiatricMedication. He has a PhD in psychopharmacology and the neurobiology of depression from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. He also co-wrote the Maudsley Deprescribing guidelines.Mark has his ow...

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E103 - Evidence-Based Parenting (w/ Matilda Gosling)

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/12/06

Matilda Gosling is an author, social scientist and researcher, with two books that cover parenting, development and mental health. Evidence-Based Parenting came out in January 2024, and Teenagers: The Evidence Base will be published in the new year. Her latest book uses evidence from social and experimental psychology, neuroscience, family systems and adolescent development (among others) to examine parent-teenager relationships, the online world and other connections, mood and maturity,...

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We're on Break this week! Announcements & Housekeeping

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/11/29

This week we're taking a well deserved break, so if you're looking for something to listen to you can check out one of our recent episodes - including our episode last week breaking down the factors that make for successful psychotherapy, our recent conversation exploring the fundamentals of self-development, and our November episode illustrating 8 lessons we learned making our first 100 episodes, which are applicable to anyone considering embarking on a change in their career, or a creative ...

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23:28

Sixteen Ways Psychotherapy Can Help You

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/11/22

Today Alex discusses 16 factors common to most kinds of therapy which help people to improve the quality of their lives including skills development, gaining new insights about old patterns, forming a reparative relationship with the therapist, being challenged, having their experiences normalised and much more.The book referenced in this podcast is Integration in Counselling & Psychotherapy by Lapworth, Sills and Fish (2001). Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant general adult psychiatris...

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E102 - Fundamentals of Self-Development (Fear of...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/11/15

Today Alex chats with Dr. Alex Meaburn, a speciality doctor in psychiatry who has been working on the podcast behind the scenes. They discuss some of the fundamentals of self-development including how to audit your time, break out of unhelpful patterns, some of the problems of modern living, the importance to cultivating your intuition, why play is fundamental to our lives, and much more. If you would like to invite Alex to speak at your organisation please email thinkingmindpodcast@gmail.com...

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54:27

How Does Nature Help us Heal? (with Prof. Chris...

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2024/11/08

What is the effect of nature on our mental health? Today Alex speaks with Prof. Chris Dayson & Dr. Anette Haywood, who have conducted research involving 8000 people, who were given nature-based interventions (such as nature walks, community gardening, tree planting and wild swimming) to help them with their mental health difficulties across seven different sites in the UK.See below link to an article about their work: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/04/better-than...

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E100 - 8 Lessons from 100 Episodes

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/11/01

In this episode Alex discusses 8 lessons he learned from making the first 100 episodes of the podcast, including how to deal with success and failure, internal and external obstacles, creativity, peristence and much more. Audio-Essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a consultant general adult psychiatrist with a sub-speciality in addictions who completed his training in the South London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust. He is also a UKCP registered training psychotherapist, and has a special ...

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31:27

Five Maddening Things About the Modern World

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/10/24

In this week's podcast we discuss five different problems facing the modern world, including the decline in critical thinking, political polarisation, the overreliance on technology and more, and how they are contributing to a rise in mental health problems. Audio-Essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a consultant general adult psychiatrist with a sub-speciality in addictions who completed his training in the South London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust. In addition to general adult ps...

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E99 - Should we Prescribe Pets for Mental Health...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/10/17

Nancy Gee, Ph.D is a Professor of Psychiatry in Human Animal Interaction, and the Director of the Centre for Human Animal Interaction at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA. The Centre is the only one of its kind to be housed in a School of Medicine, and in addition to research and educational activities it also houses the “Dogs On Call” therapy dog program. With over 90 DOC volunteer dog-and-handler teams, this program engages in upwards of 100,000 meaningful interactions ...

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Ask Me Anything #2: Men's Mental Health, Addiction,...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/10/10

This is a recording of a Q & A session at Riddlesdown collegiate, a secondary school in South London. For this session, specifically aimed at male staff, Alex was interviewed by Deputy Head of College Andrew Edwards. Today we cover topics including male mental health issues, lifestyle factors influencing mental health, work life balance, the economics of discomfort, the signs of burnout, cultural trends affecting dating & relationships, criticial thinking and much more. If you would l...

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E98 - What can Neuroscience tell us about Mental...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/10/03

Send us a textDr. Camilla Nord leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge, where she holds dual positions as Programme Leader at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry. She also holds a Wellcome Career Development Award fellowship, and co-leads an international team of researchers via a Wellcome Mental Health Award. Dr Nord has a longstanding interest in science communication, i...

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E97 - Novel Treatments for Eating Disoders (with...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/09/26

Send us a textProf. Ulrike Schmidt is a Professor of Eating Disorders and Director of the Centre for Research on Eating and Weight Disorders at King’s College London. She is also a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Ulrike works to understand fundamental biology and psychological determinants of eating and weight disorders, including obesity. Her research includes multiple trials of new treatments and led to the development of MANTRA, a NICE-re...

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E96 - Seeing Personality Disorder in the Clinic (with...

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/09/19

Send us a textDr Tennyson Lee is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and General Adult Psychiatry. He is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a supervisor in Transference Focused Psychotherapy. He is presently clinical lead at the Dean Cross Personality Disorder Service in East London. He is Co-director of a research and training unit, the Centre for Understanding Personality (CUSP) which has a number of collaborations internationally, including with c...

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We're on Break this week! Announcements & Housekeeping

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2024/09/12

Send us a textThis week we're taking a well deserved break, so if you're looking for something to listen to you can check out one of our recent episodes - including our recent interview with Dr. Roberto Mezzina about the Triste model of mental healthcare, our recent compherensive guide to ADHD or our recent Q and A episode where answered questions about topics like self-harm, addiction, delusional disorder and much more. We realy enjoyed doing the Q and A episode and we're collecting que...

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50:09

ADHD (A Comprehensive Guide)

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy ·

2024/09/05

Send us a textIn this episode we discuss ADHD in depth, including the common signs and symptoms, how ADHD is diagnosed, the common risk factors and how ADHD symptoms can be managed both with and without medication. We also discuss whether or not ADHD is over diagnosed, whether ADHD being induced by our lifestyles, and common signs of impairment due to ADHD. Useful links:https://www.additudemag.com/https://adhduk.co.uk/https://aadduk.org/Dr. Alex Curmi is a consultant general adult psychi...

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