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The Mental Elf
by The Mental Elf
Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience. I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research. Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields. Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Remembering Sue Iversen: A Tribute from Eileen Joyce & Trevor Robbins
Professor Eileen Joyce and Professor Trevor Robbins, two of her closest colleagues and former PhD students, join André Tomlin to remember Professor Susan (Sue) Iversen (1940–2025), the scientist who fused psychopharmacology and neuropsychology and helped found the field of…
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Immuno-metabolic depression & the future of precision psychiatry — Brenda Penninx (Amsterdam UMC)
Depression is not one thing, and treating it as if it were may be why so many people don't get better. In this episode, Prof Brenda Penninx offers a sharper way to think about it. Recorded ahead of her guest lecture at the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Meeting, Brenda...
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Inside the British Association of Psychopharmacology with Prof Catherine Harmer and Prof Naomi Fineberg
Catherine Harmer, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford and outgoing president of the British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP), and Naomi Fineberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hertfordshire and incoming BAP president, discuss how BAP brings together non-clinical...
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Dr Lucy Foulkes - Adolescent mental health: The truth behind the headlines
Oxford psychologist Dr Lucy Foulkes discusses myths and research around adolescent mental health ahead of her public lecture at the British Association of Psychopharmacology Conference (Sunday, 19 July). She critiques Keir Starmer’s proposal to ban social media for under-16s, arguing bans won’t...
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Nurture-U Episode 4: Taking Action - What Next for Student Wellbeing?
Five years of research. 14,000 students surveyed. Interventions tested. A whole-university framework developed. Now: what needs to change? In the final episode of the Nurture-U Podcast, researchers, university leaders and students reflect on what it will take to turn evidence into action. What…
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Nurture-U Episode 3: Changing Systems - Compassionate Campus
The Nurture-U Compassionate Campus framework identifies three pillars: culture, communication, and community. What does that mean in practice? How do mitigating circumstances systems end up failing the students who need them most? And is it really as simple as putting benches inside buildings?...
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Nurture-U Episode 2: What Works - Testing Solutions
Evidence alone doesn't solve the student mental health crisis. The question is: what actually works? Nurture-U tested three interventions. A mental health literacy course that protected students from the wellbeing dip across the academic year. Digital CBT that produced a surprising finding…
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Nurture-U Episode 1: The Evidence — What 14,000 Students Taught Us
What does the largest longitudinal study of UK student mental health tell us about who struggles, what protects them, and where universities should focus? Nurture-U surveyed 14,000 students across five universities over three academic years. The findings are clear and some are surprising. Half of...
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Why Preventing Mental Ill-Health in Schools is Essential: ReSET School Mental Health
In the final episode of the ReSET Podcast, host André Tomlin from the Mental Elf explores the importance of mental health prevention in schools, featuring insights from Professor Peter Fonagy, Professor Essi Viding, Professor Jess Deighton, and Dr Ros Law. This episode emphasises the necessity of...
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Supporting social relationships in young people - ReSET School Mental Health
Social Relationships and Mental Health in Adolescents - The Crucial Connection Episode 3 of the ReSET Podcast delves into the bidirectional relationship between social relationships and mental health in adolescents. Host André Tomlin from The Mental Elf, along with experts Pasco Fearon, Lucy…
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Teaching emotional skills to young people - ReSET School Mental Health
Emotional Skills in Adolescents - Preventing Mental Health Problems Episode 2 of the ReSET podcast focuses on the importance of emotional skills for adolescents and how these can prevent mental health issues like depression and anxiety. Host André Tomlin from The Mental Elf explores the key...
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ReSET Mental Health - Indicated Versus Universal Interventions In Schools
Universal vs. Targeted Interventions: ReSETting Mental Health Support in Schools Episode 1 of the ReSET podcast focuses on the critical question: Should schools implement universal or targeted interventions to support young people's mental health? Host André Tomlin from The Mental Elf explores…
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From Trauma to Trust: a Journey in Psychotherapy.
Exploring Power Imbalance, Systemic Racism, and Dialogue in Mental Health. A conversation with Maxine Dennis for the 2025 BIGSPD conference. Join André from The Mental Elf for episode three of the BIGSPD 2025 Podcast in conversation with Maxine Dennis, a consultant clinical psychologist and...
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Cultivating Democratic Mental Health: Relational Practice and Cooperation
Relational Practice: making hope possible rather than despair convincing. Join André from The Mental Elf for episode two of the BIGSPD 2025 Podcast as he discusses relational practice and democratic mental health with Professor Mick McKeown. Mick is a mental health nurse academic who shares his...
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Past, Present, and Future
Exploring DBT: Techniques, Efficacy, and Lived Experience #BIGSPD25 Welcome to episode 1 of the BIGSPD 2025 podcast, hosted by André from the Mental Elf. This episode dives deep into Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with guest experts Professor Michaela Swales, Programme Director at the North...
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Darren Williams - Bridging Disciplines: Highlights from the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival
In the final episode of the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival podcast, André from The Mental Elf welcomes Dr. Darren Williams from Kings College London to discuss the upcoming festival. Dr. Williams shares insights into the diverse range of topics and speakers that will be featured, including...
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Juliet Foster - The ‘whole university’ approach to mental health and well-being.
Welcome to episode 2 of the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival Podcast! In this episode, André from The Mental Elf speaks with Professor Juliet Foster, Professor of Social Psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, where she is also the Dean of...
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Edmund Sonuga-Barke: RE-STAR - multidisciplinary adventure in participatory translational science
Welcome to the 2025 IoPPN Research Festival Podcast! In this first episode, we hear from Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a leading expert in developmental psychology at King’s College London. He introduces RE-STAR—a four-year, interdisciplinary research programme. RE-STAR stands for Regulating...
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Rob Waller: Using routine clinical data to support mental health research
The Mental Elf previews the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network Annual Scientific Meeting with Dr. Rob Waller, Consultant Psychiatrist from NHS Lothian. They discuss the rapid digital transformation in NHS mental health services triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the...
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Deborah Cairns: Addressing the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities
Join Douglas Badenoch and Prof. Deborah Cairns from the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory as they delve into the health disparities faced by those with learning disabilities. In this podcast preview, Deborah shares groundbreaking research findings from comprehensive health checks, cancer...
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Veenu Gupta: The Evolution of Lived Experience Roles #NRSMH24
This Mental Elf podcast is part of the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network's Annual Scientific Meeting, 7th November 2024. Host Douglas speaks with Dr. Veenu Gupta, Assistant Professor at Durham University, about the burgeoning role of the Lived Experience Workforce in mental health...
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Eco-anxiety to agency: mental health in the age of climate change
As climate change accelerates, so does the mental distress it causes. In this episode, we interview Dr. Elizabeth Marks and Dr. Kris De Meyer to explore the critical intersection between mental health and climate change. We discuss eco-anxiety - the difficult emotions caused by direct or indirect...
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From Chekhov to Psychedelics: A Conversation with Femi Oyebode
Welcome to the final episode of the British Association for Psychopharmacology 50th Anniversary Summer Meeting Podcast. In this episode, Andre is joined by Professor Femi Oyebode from the University of Birmingham. They discuss a broad range of topics, from Anton Chekhov's novella 'Ward Number…
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From Prozac to Performance: Dan Stein Discusses Cosmetic Psychopharmacology
Exploring Cosmetic Psychopharmacology with Professor Dan Stein | BAP2024 Podcast Episode 6 Welcome to episode six of the BAP 2024 Podcast! Join André from The Mental Elf as he interviews Professor Dan Stein from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. They discuss the intriguing topic of...
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Anthony Bateman on Mentalizing and 'Personality Disorders'
In episode four of the 2024 BIGSPD Podcast, André from The Mental Elf speaks with Anthony Bateman, a visiting professor at UCL and consultant at the Anna Freud Centre. Bateman discusses the concept of mentalizing, its role in human behavior, and the effectiveness of mentalization-based treatment...
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Mel Ball - The Wind and the Sun: A Fable of Lived Experience Leadership
In this episode of the BIGSPD Podcast, host André interviews Mel Ball, the first board-level Director for Lived Experience in the NHS. Mel shares her journey from grassroots peer support to her current leadership role, highlighting the importance of lived experience in transforming NHS services....
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David Nutt on Alcohol: The Ultimate Psychopharmacological Challenge
In episode five of the BAP 2024 podcast, Professor David Nutt, a renowned psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist from Imperial College London, delves into the psychopharmacological aspects of alcohol. David Nutt is a past president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and of the...
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Understanding Biological Pathways Towards ADHD: Barbara Franke's 40-Year Tour of ADHD Research #BAP2024
In this episode of the BAP Podcast, host André from the Mental Elf interviews Professor Barbara Franke, a molecular biologist from Radboud University in Nijmegen, about the complexities of ADHD. Franke discusses the genetic and environmental factors contributing to ADHD, the challenges of...
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Melanie Abas - Global mental health and the ambition to end HIV/AIDS
Welcome to the third and final episode of the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival podcast. Every year the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience hosts a 1 day festival that brings together a really diverse mix of mental health scientists, to present their work and learn from each other.…
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Sonia Johnson - What does research tell us about how care and support for people with a 'personality disorder' diagnosis could be improved?
Sonia Johnson is Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL, Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit for Mental Health, and a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked for over 20 years in an Early Intervention Service for Psychosis. Episode 2 of the 2024 BIGSPD podcast. BIGSPD is the...
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Edgar Jones - The roots of research excellence at the Maudsley-IoPPN
Welcome to episode 2 of the IoPPN Research Festival podcast. The festival takes place in South London on Wednesday 15th May 2024, and this year the theme is Origins and New Beginnings and there will be keynote talks from Melanie Abas, Emily Simonoff and Edgar Jones. We're focusing on origins in...
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Anne Lingford-Hughes, Belinda Lennox & Bill Deakin
Welcome to a new episode of the BAP podcast. The British Association for Psychopharmacology are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2024. We'll be joining them in Birmingham for their annual summer meeting, which takes place from the 21st to the 24th of July. This episode of the podcast…
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Emily Simonoff - The King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People
Professor Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). In this podcast, she speaks to André Tomlin from the Mental Elf about the new King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People...
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Gavin Davidson - Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention
Prof Gavin Davidson from Queen’s University Belfast and Dr Iain McDougall and Steph Kerr from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust talk about personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention on episode 1 of the 2024 BIGSPD podcast. BIGSPD is the British and Irish Group for the...
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David Baldwin and Catherine Harmer - Previewing the #BAP2024 Summer Meeting
In this podcast conversation, Professor David Baldwin (President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology) and Professor Catherine Harmer (President Elect of the BAP) preview the 2024 Summer Meeting which will take place in Birmingham on 21st - 24th July 2024 at the University of...
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John Krystal - Ketamine for depression #BAP2024
Professor John Krystal will be giving a Guest Lecture at the 2024 British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting in Birmingham on 24th July 2024. His talk is entitled: Linking depression pathophysiology to the mechanism of action of ketamine and “next generation” treatments. In this...
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Heather O'Mahen - Are perinatal community mental health teams effective? What's the evidence?
Professor Heather O'Mahen from the University of Exeter previews her talk at the 2024 UK and Ireland Marcé Society Annual Conference in London on 25th January: Are perinatal community mental health teams effective? What's the evidence? Find out more about the International Marcé Society for...
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Zoë Darwin and Jacob Stokoe - Gestational and non-gestational parents: transcending existing perinatal mental health frameworks
Zoë Darwin from the University of Huddersfield and Jacob Stokoe from Transparent Change preview their talk at the 2024 UK and Ireland Marcé Society Annual Conference in London on 25th January: Gestational and non-gestational parents: transcending existing perinatal mental health frameworks. Find...
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PPI in the AVATAR2 Trial - Alie Phiri, Leonie Richardson and Stephanie Allan
Effective patient and public involvement (PPI) is crucial to conducting research that meets the needs and values of patients. In this podcast, we hear from a team of researchers and people with lived experience about getting involved in the AVATAR2 trial. This study is investigating the effects…
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Sustainability and climate change - Roslyn Morgan and Kate Charlesworth #Quality2023
Roslyn Morgan and Kate Charlesworth speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Roslyn Morgan is the ANMF (Vic Branch) Environmental Health Officer and her talk at #Quality2023 in Melbourne is entitled: Workplace…
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Danny Smith on investigating the role of light, circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder
Professor Daniel Smith from Edinburgh University gives a short overview of bipolar disorder, and introduces two studies he is working on to investigate the role of light, circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder, and their effect on the action of lithium as a treatment. This podcast is…
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Simon Hackett on Arts Psychotherapy in people with Intellectual Disabilities - #NRSMH23
Simon Hackett sits down with Douglas Badenoch to discuss Arts Psychotherapy for people with Intellectual Disabilities. This recording was made as a preview to the Annual Scientific Meeting of NHS Research Scotland's Mental Health Network on 30th October 2023. Find out more about the event. Hosted...
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - People Who Are Homeless: Claire Doherty and Jennie Hutton
Claire Doherty and Jennie Hutton speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Claire Doherty is Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. Jennie Hutton is an Emergency Physician and Hon…
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Bryn Lloyd Evans on Loneliness and Social Prescribing #NRSMH23
Professor Bryn Lloyd Evans from UCL talks to Douglas Badenoch about his clinical work and research on loneliness and social prescribing in people with severe mental illness. Bryn will be presenting further details of his work at the #NRSMH23 Annual Scientific Meeting on 30 October 2023. Find out...
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People powered change: Bianca Forrester and Paresh Dawda
Bianca Forrester and Paresh Dawda speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Bianca Forrester is a GP Academic at the Western Victoria Primary Health Network. Her talk at the Quality Forum in Melbourne is entitled: "Towards a...
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Co-PACT project audio documentary
This audio documentary accompanies an online and in person photo exhibition, which details the experiences of diverse people detained under the Mental Health Act. Sixty people took part in the project led by Oxford University, and funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme, which captured their...
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Civility and kindness in healthcare: Catherine Crock and Chris Turner
Catherine Crock and Chris Turner speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. ProfessorCatherine Crock AM is a Physician at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and Chair of the Hush Foundation and Gathering of Kindness.…
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Patient safety and co-creation: Deon York and Ashfaq Chauhan
Deon York and Ashfaq Chauhan speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Deon York is Director of Consumer Engagement at Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand. Deon's talk at the Quality Forum in...
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Louis Appleby - Suicide Prevention: is it possible? #IoMHconf23
Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD in Mental Health Science at UCL speak to Prof Sir Louis Appleby from the University of Manchester before his talk at the 2023 UCL Institute of Mental Health Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Scott Kim - Assisted Suicide and mental disorder #IoMHconf23
Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD in Mental Health Science at UCL speak to Dr Scott Kim from the US National Institutes of Health before his talk at the 2023 UCL Institute of Mental Health Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience.
I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research.
Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields.
Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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