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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Scheduling
editThe programme is typically broadcast at 9 pm on a Tuesday, with a repeat the next day (Wednesday) at 3:30 pm.
Partial episode list for 2011 series
edit| Date | Key Topics | Guest(s)/Interview(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 list for 2012 series
editEpisode descriptions are largely as provided by the BBC.[5]
| Date | Key Topics | Guest(s)/Interview(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
References
edit- ^ Mazzonetto, Marzia; Merzagora, Matteo; Tola, Elisabetta (2005). Science in radio broadcasting: the role of the radio in science communication. Polimetrica s.a.s. p. 92. ISBN 978-88-7699-018-2.
- ^ "Science: All in the Mind". BBC. Archived from the original on 28 June 2008. Retrieved 6 June 2008.
- ^ Dyer, O. (2008). "Psychiatrist is suspended for three months for plagiarism". BMJ. 336 (7659): 1457–1457. doi:10.1136/bmj.a487. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2440882. PMID 18573858.
- ^ "All in the Mind: Presenters". BBC. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind - Available now". 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
Further reading
edit- Pilgrim, David (2009). Key Concepts in Mental Health. SAGE Publications Ltd. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-84860-880-1.