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Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcasts — 100 episodes

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The Statistics Expert who's helped two Nurses overturn their Serial Killer Convictions on Appeal

2

Lucy Letby - the untold story from the key prosecution expert witness - Dr Dewi Evans talks to Dr Raj Persaud

3

Which member of the UK Royal Family was most mad for sex? Historian and coach Anne Scoular explains

4

Best-selling author Johann Hari talks to Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud on where has all our attention gone?

5

Alexandra Durnford Executive Coach talks to Dr Raj Persaud about coaching and personal change

6

Diet and Fitness Guru Rosemary Conley talks to Dr Raj Persaud about the psychology of motivation

7

Jane Janse Van Rensburg Addictions Therapist talks to Dr Raj Persaud about why addicts become therapists

8

Roxana Cardos Business Psychologist talks to psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud on the psychology of personal strengths

9

The Psychology of Music with Rock Legend and Executive Coach Peter Cook

10

The Psychology of the Greatest Cad and Bounder Ever in the World - Dr Cosmo Duff-Gordon defends his ancestor - the first man to get off the Titanic

11

An addictions counsellor explains the essence of personal change

12

Psychology of the Professional Executive Who Starts to Drink Too Much

13

The Serotonin Story - Depression Myth or Medical Miracle? Professor Joanna Moncrieff talks to Dr Raj Persaud

14

Who Really Saved Freud From Himself? Andrew Nagorski talks to psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud

15

Will Robots Choose What Drugs We Take in the Future? Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud talks to a pioneer of AI drug discovery

16

What Does Luxury Treatment in Psychiatry Look Like - Raj Persaud lifts the veil on how the wealthy get psychological help

17

The Reluctant Carer talks to Dr Raj Persaud

18

What does driving across the length of Africa in a 1950's Land Rover teach us about modern masculinity?

19

How To Cope When Your Life Changes Irrevocably, Dramatically and Completely But In An Instant

20

How to stop worrying - Gwendoline Smith talks to Dr Raj Persaud

21

How To Deal With Money Stress - the seven dollar millionaire confides with the psychiatrist

22

The Psychology of the Ukrainian Soldier - interview with a Psychologist who treats them

23

Mental Health of Ukraine - A psychiatrist based there explains

24

Can you achieve more Good Luck in your life?

25

What Can Grief Teach Us About Ourselves?

26

Can you do therapy with no money?

27

Do we have free will?

28

How to Keep an Open Mind

29

The Psychology Behind The Movie The Shawshank Redemption

30

Associate Professor at Suicide Research Unit discusses Meghan Markle Interview

31

Is Life A Miracle Beyond The Ability Of Physics To Explain It?

32

Are You Ignorant About The Pandemic?

33

How To Think Like Shakespeare - Scott Newstok discusses his new book

34

Can your intellect save you in a pandemic? Zena Hitz on her new book 'Lost in Thought'

35

Did Governments Not Grasp Basic Maths When It Comes to Understanding Covid-19?

36

Have Historians Got It Completely Wrong Over How Pandemics Psychologically Impact People?

37

The Psychology of Working Remotely

38

Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theory - Who To Believe In A Pandemic?

39

Is The Plague Of Athens, over 2000 years ago Relevant to Today's Pandemic?

40

Where Have All The Truly Great Leaders Gone?

41

How To Cope With The Pointless Suffering Of The Pandemic

42

Is There A 'Social Cure' For The Mental Health Impact of The Pandemic?

43

Economist Prof John Quiggin discusses whether Economics boils down to just one lesson with Dr Raj Persaud

44

In the middle of the Pandemic - can you get people to do anything you want?

45

Does the novel 'The Plague' by Nobel Prize Winner Albert Camus Prophecy The Current Pandemic?

46

Is There An Art To Drinking Alcohol? Professor Michael Fontaine discusses his new book with Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud

47

Surviving the Trauma of Covid-19

48

The Psychology of Coping with Quarantine

49

The True Story of Typhoid Mary - The first confirmed 'super-spreader' in history?

50

The Psychology of Pandemics

51

Does The Secret of Happiness Lie in a Maths Formula?

52

THE INEQUALITY PARADOX - How Capitalism Can Work For Everyone

53

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

54

David Sellu a surgeon wrongfully imprisoned for the death of a patient talks to Dr Raj Persaud

55

How Do You 'Come off' Medication Your Doctor Has Prescribed

56

Is Lithium The Penicillin of Mental Health?

57

Do you suffer from a tic?

58

The Psychology of Being Addicted to Risk

59

Could An Aphorism Change Your Life? Associate Professor at Yale-NUS, Andrew Hui, talks about his new book with Dr Raj Persaud

60

Timefulness - Do We Need A New Way of Thinking About Time In Order To Survive?

61

Do You Know How To Navigate Life?

62

Did Winston Churchill suffer from Depression or the infamous 'black dog'.

63

How To Keep Your Cool - Seneca's Timeless Advice on Anger Management

64

Why are children now being prescribed anti-depressants more than any other drug?

65

Professor Ed Bullmore talks to Dr Raj Persaud about his new theory for depression

66

Psychology of Rap Music, Walls, Gated Communities and whether Immigrants commit more crime

67

The Tyranny of Metrics

68

GENETICS IN THE MADHOUSE - Raj Persaud talks to Theodore Porter about his new book

69

What is Violence in the Movies Really About?

70

The Voices Within - Charles Fernyhough discusses hearing voices and inner speech with Dr Raj Persaud

71

Where there is no psychiatrist

72

Could you be suffering from a delusion? Who is deluded is not as easy a diagnosis as you may think.

73

Can You Live To 120? A new diet based on latest longevity research might be the answer

74

Is Human Progress Inevitable? Raj Persaud talks to Professor Joel Mokyr about his new book, 'A Culture of Growth'.

75

The Psychology of the Whistleblower

76

Is it Possible To Attain Any Goal You Desire? Sean Young's new book 'Stick With It' describes the science of personal change

77

What Do Our Faces Reveal About Us?

78

Is the secret to happiness revealed by Buddhism and Stoicism?

79

Does Your Self Exist? The Delusion of the Sense of Self

80

Is Your Soul A Machine?

81

Are You Disenchanted? Professor Adrian Furnham discusses his new book 'Disenchantment' with Raj Persaud

82

Is There A Third Way For Therapy?

83

Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Professor Russell Grant Foster talks to Dr Raj Persaud

84

The Strange Case Of Oliver Sacks

85

Are those sympathetic to violent protest and terrorism suffering from psychological problems?

86

Some surprising causes of mental illness - interview with Ardesheer Talati Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center

87

Why are the children of depressed parents more likely to die earlier and from unnatural causes?

88

Could warming up the body cure depression?

89

What roles do chance and luck play in our lives?

90

Does Extremism Protect You From Depression?

91

EGO IS THE ENEMY - RYAN HOLIDAY IN CONVERSATION WITH RAJ PERSAUD

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If you hear voices - does that mean you are going to go insane?

93

The Psychiatry of 'Breaking Bad' - Crystalline methamphetamine use and abuse

94

The Euthansia Program in Nazi-Psychiatry - Dr Michael Von Cranach talks to Dr Raj Persaud about German Psychiatry in the Nazi era.

95

Prof Frank Schneider discusses mass murder of psychiatric patients during World War 2

96

A victim of stalking describes her harrowing story

97

Does Eating More Fish Cure or Prevent Depression?

98

Being A Syrian Refugee - is this the toughest test of anyone's mental health?

99

The Quotable Jung - Tony Woolfson taks to Raj Persaud about the latest book on Carl Gustav Jung

100

What's wrong with modern psychiatry?