The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
"If you are interested in your mind, emotions, sense of self, and understanding of others, this show is brilliant."
Learn something new about the mind every week - With in-depth conversations at the intersection of psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-development, spirituality and the philosophy of mental health.
Featuring experts from around the world, leading clinicians and academics, published authors, and people with lived experience, we aim to make complex ideas in the mental health space accessible and engaging.
This podcast is designed for a broad audience including professionals, those who suffer with mental health difficulties, more common psychological problems, or those who just want to learn more about themselves and others.
Hosted by psychiatrists Dr. Alex Curmi, Dr. Anya Borissova & Dr. Rebecca Wilkinson.
Listeners have also said:
"Every episode is enlightening, the approach, conversations and depth of information is deeply enriching. So refreshing to hear practitioners with this level of insight into human behaviour. Thank you for the work and for sharing."
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Disclaimer: None of the information in the podcast is intended as medical advice for any one invididual.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 207
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Interview #41: Attachment, Dating, Relationships, Marriage & Psychotherapy (with Adam Lane Smith)
Adam Lane Smith is a psychotherapist, coach and author. In this episode we discuss: dating, attachment, relationship problems, marriage, psychotherapy and much more.
You can find out more about Adam …
Audio Essay #15: Why Do We Have Personalities?
What is a Personality? How should we think about our Personalities? How can you expand your Personality?
Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a specialist registrar in General Adult psychiatry…
Audio Essay #14: Getting a More Balanced Perspective
This is an audio-essay about three unhelpful thinking habits, or cognitive distortions, where we think about some examples, why these ways of thinking are unhelpful and what we can do about them.
Ther…
Lived Experience #3: Anorexia Nervosa
In our third lived experience episode Rebecca speaks with Ella about her experiences with Anorexia: how it started, the effects it had on her thinking, how it affected her family life and her process…
Lived Experience #2: Psychosis (with Ad Gridley)
Ad Gridley was 18 when he had his first cannabis joint while on a gap year in Canada. He had no idea his choices then would – most likely – be the trigger for a 15-year unremitting, downward spiral t…
Interview #40: Psychiatry in a Time of War (With Dr. Natalia Pidkalyuk)
Dr Pidkalyuk is a Ukrainian psychiatrist. Dr Pidkalyuk has worked as a psychiatrist since 2004, and with local government set up a centre for stress disorders in the local polyclinic. In 2021, Dr Pid…
Audio Essay #13 - This is Going to Hurt: Why Growth is Hard (and why you should do it anyway)
How can we define Psychological Growth? Which traits define a mature person? Why is it hard to grow Psychologically? Why Should you do it Anyway?
Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a special…
Lived Experience #1: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Religion and Recovery.
Dr Asad Rajput is a FY1 doctor who suffered with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from a young age. In this episode Rebecca and Asad discuss what it's like to live with OCD, how religion and culture imp…
Interview #39: Stop Being Nice (Dating & Relationships with Dr. Robert Glover)
Dr. Robert Glover is an author, psychotherapist and speaker. He is the author of bestselling men's self help book: No More Mr. Nice Guy. Dr. Glover has devoted his career as a psychotherapist to fre…
Interview #38: Addiction, the Opioid Epidemic and How to Save Lives (with Professor Sir John Strang)
Professor Sir John Strang is a leading clinical academic. He is head of the Addictions Department at King’s College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist in addictions treatment for over 30 years.
He i…
Interview #37: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (With Prof. David Veale)
Prof David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist and leads a national outpatient and residential unit service for people with severe treatment refractory Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmo…
Interview #36: Providing Drug and Alcohol Treatment and its Challenges (with Dr. Emmert Roberts)
Dr Roberts is an addiction psychiatrist and research fellow working in South London, working with people with addiction to substances as well as addictive behaviours, like gambling.
He conducts resea…
Interview #35: Dr. Alex George (on Love Island, Public Mental Health, Self-Actualisation, Learning from Failure)
Dr Alex George is a medical NHS doctor. He is well known for featuring on Love Island in 2018. Following the show, Alex has become a leading voice in mental health, and uses his platform to make heal…
Audio Essay #12: Anxiety & Depression
What are some of the useful things to know about the experience of anxiety and depression? Can psychoeducation be helpful?
What are ruminations and why might it be useful to take time to acknowledge …
Interview #34: Eating Disorders (with Professor Janet Treasure)
Janet Treasure, OBE PhD FRCP FRCPsych, is a British psychiatrist, who specialises in research and treatment of eating disorders. She is currently the Director of the Eating Disorder Unit and Professo…
Interview #33: Dr. Richard Miller Part 2 - Ayahuasca, Cannabis, Ketamine, Existential Responsibility, Psychotherapy
Dr. Richard Miller is an American clinical psychologist, author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of the book Psychedelic Medicine and the founder of the Wilbur Hot Springs health maintenance o…
Interview #32: Mental Health, Race, Poverty, Addiction and how they're shown on TV (with Dr. Akeem Sule)
This week we are thrilled to meet Dr Akeem Sule @ak411cam who is a Wolfson College Research Associate and a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry at the Essex Partnership University NHS…
How & Why to Engage in Conflict (Audio-Essay #11)
Why should you engage in conflict in relationships? How should you think about it? Whats the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of conflict?
Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a s…
Interview #31: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (with Dr Charles Shepherd)
Dr Charles Shepherd is a medical doctor and world renown expert on the subject of chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or ME. He is the Hon Medical Advisor to the ME ass…
Interview #30: All About Ketamine (with Dr. Lawrence Park)
Dr Lawrence Park is a psychiatrist. He has worked at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at NIMH since 2014 and currently serves as medical director of the Clinical Research Unit…