History of Psychiatry Podcast Series Podcast
1) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor John Crichton
Prof John Crichton - Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland. What is a forensic psychiatrist? Far from the media stereotypes forensic psychiatr...Show More
2) Prisoners or Patients? Criminal Insanity in Victorian Scotland
This is a 50 minute audio file of a talk I delivered at the National Records of Scotland on 7 August 2019, in connection with my hugely successful exhibition that they kindly hosted: ‘Prisoners or Pat...Show More
3) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor Rory O'Connor
Professor Rory O’Connor, Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, University of Glasgow Suicide and self-harm are major public health concerns with complex aetiologies which encompass a multifaceted a...Show More
4) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Chris Williams
In this podcast Professor Chris Williams, a researcher and teacher in the area of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) introduces CBT as a self-help form of therapy. It gives people the tools help them...Show More
Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Chris Williams
55:03 | Apr 15th, 2019
5) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Michael Brown
Chief Inspector Michael Brown: ‘Police, policing, and mental health in the UK’. Police services all over the world are essential as a de facto mental health service, especially around crisis care. Al...Show More
Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Michael Brown
51:56 | Feb 5th, 2019
6) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Fionnuala Williams
People with learning disability were understood and treated very differently in the past from the present. While attempts were always made to help them, this was against a background of pessimism abou...Show More
7) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Ruth Allen
Social workers and care in the community Social workers have a crucial part to play in improving mental health services and mental health outcomes for citizens. They bring a distinctive social and ri...Show More
Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Ruth Allen
39:45 | May 8th, 2018
8) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Chris Frith
In the podcast I talk about my research on the biological basis of schizophrenia using brain imaging and my attempts to understand symptoms such as hallucinations in terms of brain based cognitive pro...Show More
9) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Uta Frith
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder with a prevalence of about one in 100 births. Although we assume that this disorder has always been with us, and Rab Houston and I identified a case from the 1...Show More
Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Uta Frith
25:01 | Apr 24th, 2018
10) Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof Douglas Blackwood
Symptoms of schizophrenia develop in more than 1:200 people, in all cultures, while 2- 4% of the population may experience major depression at some time in their life. Mild and moderate depression are...Show More