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Shrink Rapt is a fortnightly podcast created specifically for Psychiatrists. We share bitesized insight from leaders in your profession, our primary focus being to discuss innovation, technology and latest research. Please do get in touch if there are any particular topics you'd like us to cover. Shrink Rapt is brought to your by Thalamos. At Thalamos we create bespoke software solutions, supporting psychiatrists and helping to improve outcomes in the assessment and treatment of mental ill-h ...
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Dr Judy is a psychiatrist who will teach you simple skills to make your life happier and healthier.
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Episode 6 - Clinical Infomatics - Rob Stewart
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This week Arden speaks with Prof. Rob Stewart Professor of Psychiatry at Kings College London. A recipient of the Wellcome Fellowship Rob’s recent work has focused on Epidemiology and clinical Informatics alongside later life mental disorders. Rob is the clinical lead for Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) a tool which allows researchers to …
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Episode 5 - Mental Health Apps - Kumar Jacob
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This week Arden speaks with Kumar Jacob, Founder & CEO of Mindwave Ventures. Kumar has a career spent in technology and gaming, as well as a stint as a non-executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. It was this experience which exposed Kumar to the lack of technology provision in the Mental Health world. Not one to sit still Kumar decided to…
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Episode 4 - Depression and Genetics - Prof. Andrew McIntosh
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Andrew is at the forefront of research into depression and genomics. He’s a Professor with the Division of Psychiatry at Edinburgh University a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry and Chair of Generation Scotland expert working group for Psychiatric disorders. Andrew is also this years host for the MQ Mental Health’s Data Science meeting held…
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Episode 3 - Section 12 Approval - the do's and dont's with Hilary Eagles
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Hilary Eagles is head of Business at Winterhead http://www.winterhead.co.uk/ responsible for running the South of England panel for the approval of clinicians under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act. Hilary speaks with Shrink Rapt about the common mistakes doctors make when applying for approval, a few hints and tips for what they should be doing…
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Episode 2 - Technology and Mental Health - Dr MacRae & Dr Rigby
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Dr Peter MacRae and Dr David Rigby are two North London Psychiatrists and gamers who are combining their passions to explore and research the affect technology is having and can have on our Mental Health. We discuss social media, gaming, mindfulness apps and virtual reality; spoiler alert their opinions aren't necessarily what you'd think. We also …
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Episode 1 - Dr Lesley Haines - PIPSIG Chair
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Dr Lesley Haines is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Private and Independent Practice Special Interest Group. (PIPSIG). Lesley speaks with Thalamos Founder Arden Tomison about the work of PIPSIG, how she first got into Independent Practice and some of the things she's learnt along the way. Including how to f…
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What is this thing called “Global Happiness Movement?”
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Happiness may be an inalienable right, but there are 565 MILLION web pages, and 175,000 products on Amazon helping people find it, giving a not-so-subtle impression that something is missing. Our increasing problems with depression and substance abuse reinforce that impression. Gretchen Martens is a woman of many talents – anthropologist, coach, ed…
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What useful lessons can one possibly learn from 'the evil men do'?
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Have your ever done something you feel guilty about – maybe something that eats at you long term or even causes serious problems in your life? You are NOT alone, although you may often feel that you are. Today’s guest, Ronald Chapman, and I have both been down those paths, survived them and turned to careers that give us the privilege of helping ot…
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Learning to survive a broken heart with Shirley Melis
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Shirley is a longtime business writer, travel writer, and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C. With Banged-Up Heart, she now takes her writing in a new direction, delving deeply into her own personal sto…
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Interview with Rebecca Pott Fitton, Author of Wave Rider
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Rebecca was is a highly successful woman in the business world, someone who worked in the civil rights movement, then in urban planning, followed by getting an MBA and working in healthcare. Yet something was tripping her up in her relationships and after her second divorce she got into therapy. As she got further into therapy she uncovered the pro…
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As a woman who pushed to achieve what most women didn’t do - going to medical school at a time when they took ‘token females’ - it distresses me no end that in today’s world, even though over half the medical students are female, and increasing numbers of women crack the ‘glass ceiling’ in other areas, too many women still feel stressed, unapprecia…
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Psychiatric Diagnoses That Are Often Misdiagnosed
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Medical and psychiatric diagnoses can sometimes be made difficult by the many symptoms that can overlap for many diseases. All the media publicity and advertising that occurs tends to worsen that problem because they get you focused on their area of interest and it may distract you from other issues that are going on with you that may be even more …
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Physical and Emotional Health – Do They REALLY Affect Each Other?
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It has been known for a very long time that emotional issues can affect our physical health, and physical issues, can affect our emotions, and yet it seems to be an issue that is considered all too seldom by both the people who are suffering and the doctors who are evaluating them. Doctors are often uncomfortable asking, and patients are often emba…
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Sexuality – What’s Choice and What’s Not?
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Sex as well as Sexual (Gender) identity throughout my lifetime has been a topic inadequately understood and inadequately explained in too many quarters. Thus we hear totally uneducated and ignorant pronouncements about people’s sexual “choices”. That was more understandable back in the 70’s when we had less factual information, but it is not as acc…
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We all experience things that cause us grief, although that may be different things for different people or at different times in our lives. It often doesn’t get the attention it deserves because it involves emotions. The first thing that jumps into most people’s minds is grief over the loss of a loved one, but there are many other grief provoking …
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Learn some secrets the psychopharmaceutical industry would prefer you didn't know about! Do you ever wonder why we are having more and more unhappiness, unrest, depression and drug abuse in the world when there are so many good things going on in life? Are you or someone you know even one of those unhappy people? Today Dr. Judy will discuss what so…
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The Increasing Problems of Opiates and Other Substances of Abuse
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Substance Abuse not only affects celebrities, it affects our children and teenagers directly and indirectly, is also inceasing in other age groups and is a tremendous cost to society as a whole. I have watched it increase quite rapidly in recent years, with entirely too much of it happening in our children and teenagers. Many things have been done …
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Concussion - It's Not Just An Issue For Athletes!
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A great deal has been learned in the last 30 years or so about the impact of various traumas and types of injuries to the brain. Depending on the type and location, a head trauma can change how you think, how you feel, how you act, how your body works and other issues. While this is finally getting some much needed publicity, it is currently all fo…
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Our emotions are every bit as important a part of sensing what is going on in our world as our eyes, and ears and sense of touch, and yet we treat them as something to be ashamed of - something that means we are somehow defective if all that isn't working perfectly. When we 'stuff' our emotions or hide them or lie about them, we are dishonoring the…
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There are many things written about various 'fears' that humans have which get int he way of enjoying life and/or moving forward - fear of success, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of going broke, fear of change and so on. What doesn't really get described is the 'fear of almost anything different' that is an issue for many people - which…
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Do You Think Because We Both Speak English We Speak the Same Language?
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If Men were from Mars and Women were fomr Venus as John Gray discusses in his famous book, they would probably in many ways have much less problem communicating than peole who grow up inthe same country speaking the same language - especially English! Even 2 humans speaking different languages can learn, through some persistence and determination, …
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Can Changing Your Thoughts Change Your Feelings?
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Dr Judy Cook, a psychiatrist with many years of experience, passes on to you some of the tools she has taught to thousands of her patients to help them in their journey to a happier and healthier life. Despite all the pills and other treatments available to improve peoples mental mindsets, there are more and more serious adverse events happening re…
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