Podcasts of Interest

Monday, March 22, 2010

PODCASTS FROM ABC RADIO NATIONAL

All in the Mind. Kay Redfield Jameson, Feb 2010

Interview with Kay Redfield Jameson, acclaimed psychiatrist and author of "an Unquiet Mind" depicting her struggles with Bipolar Disorder. In this candid interview she discusses on the death of her partner and the nature of grief
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All in the Mind. Dreams: the body alive! (Part 1 of 2), Jan 2010

Jungian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings—powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your dreaming mind do you find one Self, or many?
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All in the Mind. Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2), Jan 2010

Dreams feel meaningful—drawn from a mishmash of content from our waking lives. But it's a hot debate among scientists, who are yet to confirm why we sleep, let alone dream. Neuroscientist Matthew Wilson's extraordinary experiments involve eavesdropping on the sleeping minds of rats. He proposes dreaming is central to how we remember and learn.
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All in the Mind. Archival Curiosities: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on death and dying (from 1978)

Psychiatrist Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book On Death and Dying in many ways transformed the way we publicly and privately talk about death and grief, and inspired the modern palliative care movement. From the depths of the ABC's rich archives comes this 1978 interview with Kubler-Ross. She died in 2004, and her ideas and legacy continue to provoke, and to court controversy.
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Life Matters. Psychology blues (Feb 2010)

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The Medicare rebate for psychology is over budget and not working. It is operating within a flawed system of delivering psychological services, according to Professor Ian Hickie. At the same time, there is debate about the degree of training psychologists should have to be entitled to the rebate. Ian Hickie from the Brain and Mind Research Institute, and Lyn Littlefield of the Psychological Society, debate the merits of the scheme.

All in the Mind. Stressed out! The powerful biology of stress (March 2010)

A little tension keeps us on our toes - we're biologically primed for it. But 'toxic' stress makes us physically sick, and powerful research is now revealing its potent impact on our developing bodies and brains. Don't miss two world leaders transforming our understanding
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The Health Report. The effect of parenting on psychological wellbeing (March 2010)

Researchers in the UK looked at the relationship between parenting styles during childhood and adolescence and children's psychological wellbeing in midlife.
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Life Matters. Understanding through psychodrama: Yaacov Naor (March 2010)

What happens when you bring people on two sides of an intractable military conflict together? Yaacov Naor brings Israelis and Palestinians together in East Jerusalem. He also facilitates meetings in Germany between the children of Holocaust survivors and the children of Nazis. Yaacov is an Israeli, a child of holocaust survivors himself. He's the director of ISIS, an Institute in Tel Aviv, that teaches professionals like psychologists and teachers to use psychodrama.
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Late Night Live. The Aftermath - dealing with trauma (July 2009)

What does the mind retain when exposed to disasters such as deadly bushfires or to other traumatic events and how do these memories then manifest in our physical being, our emotions and our interactions with others?
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It's a Minefield! All in the Mind at the 2010 Sydney Writer's Festival (May 2010)
Is neuroscience the new philosophy? Danish science writer and neurobiologist Lone Frank thinks the radical self-knowledge it offers us will help us transcend human nature. From the stage of the Sydney Writers' Festival, she dons The God Helmet, encounters her chemical self and hesitates before having a brain scan.
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All in the Mind. Is ignorance bliss? The getting of wisdom (May 2010)

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Four wise souls consider the making of a wise mind. Does knowing more necessarily make you happier? Can ignorance be bliss? 'Lateral thinker' Edward de Bono, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, and author and counsellor Petrea King join Natasha Mitchell at the Happiness & Its Causes conference.

All in the Mind. You, the Scientist! Personal Construct Psychology (April 2010)

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What makes you 'You'? Personal Construct Psychology argues everyone constructs and tests their own internal models of reality, and that therapists shouldn't cast themselves as the all-knowing 'expert'. We are all scientists of the self. This week, confrontations with a shocking serial killer, the philosophical heritage of psychology and the moral limits of acceptance.

The Health Report. The effect of parenting on psychological wellbeing

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Researchers in the UK looked at the relationship between parenting styles during childhood and adolescence and children's psychological wellbeing in midlife.

Life Matters. Why play matters, even for adults (July 2010)

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Play - it's pleasurable, energising, enlivening, it's a state of mind when we're at our happiest. But more than that, it's essential for survival. It doesn't stop at the end of childhood, play is also essential in adulthood too. Dr Stuart Brown has made a life long study of play. He's a psychiatrist and researcher and the Founder of the National Institute of Play in the United States.