All in the Mind is a half-hour magazine radio programme about psychology and psychiatry, broadcast in weekly episodes on Radio 4 and produced by the BBC's Science Unit. [1] It is currently presented by Claudia Hammond. [2] Former presenters have included Raj Persaud, [3] Kwame McKenzie, Tanya Byron, [4] and the first presenter of the series, Anthony Clare.
Running time | 28 mins |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Hosted by | Anthony Clare Raj Persaud Kwame McKenzie Tanya Byron Claudia Hammond |
Produced by | Fiona Hill |
Website | Website |
Podcast | Podcast RSS feed |
The programme is typically broadcast at 9 pm on a Tuesday, with a repeat the next day (Wednesday) at 3:30 pm.
Date | Key Topics | Guest(s)/Interview(s) |
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17 May | Coping with earthquakes, making reference to post traumatic stress disorder. Effectiveness of placebos. Listeners' correspondence previous week's subject of ostracism. | Ted Kaptchuk & Irene Tracey (Placebos) |
24 May | Stereotyping | |
31 May | Emotional abuse and sexual abuse in teenage relationships. Superior autobiographic memory (SAM), including Magnetic Resonance Imaging of people with exceptionally good memories. | James McGorr & Bob Atrella (SAM) |
7 Jun | Compassion in therapy, psychology of conjuring, whether television may be influencing children to eat junk food. | |
17 Jun | Responses to news of impending death. The difficulties in making predictions. | Elizabeth Kubler Ross (News of death) |
21 Jun | Stress, including mindfulness, influence of status hierarchy position on stress levels, and locus of control. | Angela Clow, Michael Marnet |
28 Jun | Mental illness and life expectancy in Hong Kong. | |
5 Jul | Compulsive Gambling and correlation of impulsivity, gambling behaviour (especially a belief in the gambler's fallacy and superstitious beliefs. Mental health benefits from working on allotments. | |
12 Jul | Motivations of, and help for, arsonists. Autism within families. | Tessa Gannon (Arson) Michael Spencer (Autism) |
4 Oct | Relationship between mental illness and premature mortality. Weight gain associated with some anti-psychotic drugs. Possible behavioural modification in eating habits to treat eating disorders. | |
25 Oct | Improving memory through self-testing at night-time. | |
1 Nov | Special edition on the book 'Nudge' by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein | |
15 Nov | Interview with Daniel Kahnemann, the founding father of behavioural economics. The case study of a pair of Canadian conjoined twins linked by their thalamus. Dementia, and splits to the corpus callosum. | Daniel Kahnemann (Relationship between economics and psychology) |
22 Nov | Psychology of the riots in the UK in 2011. Effects of childhood bullying. | |
13 Dec | Changes in the hippocampus of taxi drivers, and more broadly, changes in brain structure following repeated performance of tasks requiring particular skills. | |
Episode descriptions are largely as provided by the BBC. [5]
Date | Key Topics | Guest(s)/Interview(s) |
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1 May | The impact of future health reforms on mental health services. The psychology of online dating. | |
8 May | HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe that runs as a therapeutic community. | |
15 May | Money and motivation, street therapy and reforming the law on insanity. | |
22 May | 3D body scanners and eating disorders, rise of the 'neuro-novel', and teenagers' brains. | |
29 May | Assessment of the possibility of a vaccine against depression. | |
5 Jun | Interview with Jacopo Annese from the San Diego brain observatory about brain donation. | Jacopo Annese (Organ donation) |
12 Jun | The senior executive and her female stalker; babies as jokers; sports participation. | |
19 Jun | Deaths of patients on psychiatric wards. Whether parenthood increases happiness. Club drug clinic. | |
25 Jun | Depressive illness, ecotherapy, and the evidence for 'green therapy'. | Richard Mabey (Depressive illness) |
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