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.
Episodes
11 episodes
The Mechanics of Conscious Experience (with Prof. Anil Seth)
Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our un...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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58:04
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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1:00:15
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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1:08:16
The Science of Personalizing Psychological Treatments (with Dr. John Norcross)
Focusing on which psychotherapy is best for a specific psychiatric disorder has had limited value in providing a path to improving overall psychotherapy outcomes. Research has, however, identified multiple promising ways to boost effectiveness ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:05:56
Can a Neural Network Perspective Bring Coherence to Psychotherapy Theory? (With Dr. Warren Tryon)
The field of psychotherapy has splintered into multiple theoretical orientations and over 500 different forms of therapy - each with their own theory and often with their own famous founders and competing interests. Could broadening the perspec...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:25:09
Understanding Goal Pursuit and Dysfunction in Mental Illness (with Dr. Colin DeYoung)
Traditionally, psychiatric symptoms have been the primary focus in diagnostic systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD). This episode questions whether the...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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37:34
The Elephant in the Clinic: The DSM has Fallen Behind. Here is How Psychiatric Diagnosis Might Work in the Future. (with Dr. Colin DeYoung)
The DSM and ICD diagnostic systems are lagging scientific understanding of how mental health and mental illness work. This episode discusses the future of mental health diagnostics with personality neuroscience researcher Dr. Colin DeYoung.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:02:53
Bruce Wampold - Moving Beyond Comparing Psychotherapies
Dr. Bruce Wampold is Emeritus Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was, until his retirement, the Director of The Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Vikersund, Norway. The America...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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