What’s Next in Mental Health?
What’s Next in Mental Health is a podcast for professionals and enthusiasts. It discusses key challenges, future visions and advances in the big picture of mental health. Topics range from neuroscience perspectives to reforming the diagnostic system and the future of psychedelic-assisted therapy. In each episode psychologist and psychotherapist Helena Service talks to an expert about their work and ideas about how to move the field forward.
Podcasting since 2022 • 10 episodes
What’s Next in Mental Health?
Latest Episodes
Psychological Treatments – Can We Get Routine Outcome Monitoring Right? (with Dr. Chris Evans)
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is gaining traction in psychotherapy and psychological treatments. Session-by-session monitoring with multi-item self-report questionnaires is also one of the cornerstones of the influential Improving Access to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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How the diagnostic system started to swell (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances)
About a decade ago, one of the most influential psychiatrists of our time, started speaking out against over-medicalization and vested interests corroding the diagnostic system in psychiatry - a system he had helped pioneer. Professor Eme...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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33:13
A Glimpse into VR Exposure Therapy (with Dr. Andrew Sherrill)
Virtual reality technology has been used for exposure therapy for decades but has not yet become mainstream in clinical practice. Advances in the gaming industry and recreational applications for VR have, however, made equipment increasin...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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59:25
Should We Stop Prescribing Antidepressants for Depression? (with Prof. Joanna Moncrieff)
Over the decades, the pharmaceutical industry and parts of the psychiatric profession lead us to believe that depression was caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and that antidepressants helped correct it. Now a new effort is being made ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:05:38
Psychedelics - Untangling the Potential and the Hype (with Dr. Sandeep Nayak)
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is an area of great research interest, widespread media coverage and increasingly also financial dimensions. In this episode, we discuss psychedelic research and everything related to it with Dr. Sandeep Nayak...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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