Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych Psychiatrist, Author and Broadcaster

Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcasts

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Want help Staying Sane? Interested in unlocking the potential of your brain? Want to know why we find some people more attractive and seductive than others, and how to become irresistible yourself? Need to attain goals like losing weight or passing exams? Desire less stress in your life? Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych, a Consultant Psychiatrist based in London, UK, talks to leaders in the fields of mental health, as well as those suffering from psychological problems, in order to get to the cutting edge of our current understanding of ourselves, through our brains and our minds. The podcast series in...

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Dr Raj Persaud FRCPsych Psychiatrist, Author and Broadcaster

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Health

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Sep 12, 2023

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Episodes

Does The Secret of Happiness Lie in a Maths Formula? 03.12.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

THE INEQUALITY PARADOX - How Capitalism Can Work For Everyone 27.11.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology 01.10.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

David Sellu a surgeon wrongfully imprisoned for the death of a patient talks to Dr Raj Persaud 04.09.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

How Do You 'Come off' Medication Your Doctor Has Prescribed 03.07.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

Is Lithium The Penicillin of Mental Health? 03.07.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

Do you suffer from a tic? 03.07.2019

  Professor Eileen Joyce one of the world's leading authorities on tics and tic disorders talks to Dr Raj Persaud about tics.   Professor Joyce obtained her first degree, PhD and medical degree from the University of Cambridge. She trained in psychiatry at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals and spent several years as a research worker at the Institute of Psychiatry, where she was a Wellcome Trust...

The Psychology of Being Addicted to Risk 03.07.2019

  Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is a medical doctor and neuroscience researcher working as Consultant psychiatrist in Addictions. Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in the 2019 New Year's Honours for Services to Addiction Treatment and to Research. She was elected President of the Medical Women's Federation in 2018 having been Vice...

Could An Aphorism Change Your Life? Associate Professor at Yale-NUS, Andrew Hui, talks about his new book with Dr Raj Persaud 29.05.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

Timefulness - Do We Need A New Way of Thinking About Time In Order To Survive? 15.05.2019

Marcia Bjornerud Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology   Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which...

Do You Know How To Navigate Life? 05.03.2019

  On Freedom  Cass R. Sunstein From  New York Times  bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—today  You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuros...

Did Winston Churchill suffer from Depression or the infamous 'black dog'. 13.02.2019

Did Sir Winston Churchill suffer from the 'black dog'?     Anthony M Daniels ,  J Allister Vale First Published  October 26, 2018  Research Article  https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076818808428   This article is in a series from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine on Winston Churchill's illnesses Introduction In 1969, the psychiatrist Anthony Storr published an essay  Churchill: the Man , 1  ...

How To Keep Your Cool - Seneca's Timeless Advice on Anger Management 12.02.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

Why are children now being prescribed anti-depressants more than any other drug? 30.01.2019

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forget to check out the bonus content button on...

Professor Ed Bullmore talks to Dr Raj Persaud about his new theory for depression 23.01.2019

The Inflamed Mind A radical new approach to depression by  Edward Bullmore   You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it...

Psychology of Rap Music, Walls, Gated Communities and whether Immigrants commit more crime 20.01.2019

Charis E. Kubrin Professor of Criminology, Law and Society Ph. D., University of Washington You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the wor...

The Tyranny of Metrics 15.01.2019

The Tyranny of Metrics Jerry Z. Muller     You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links. Don't forg...

GENETICS IN THE MADHOUSE - Raj Persaud talks to Theodore Porter about his new book 17.09.2018

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11242.html You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and Google Play Store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and mental hea...

What is Violence in the Movies Really About? 19.05.2018

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The Voices Within - Charles Fernyhough discusses hearing voices and inner speech with Dr Raj Persaud 15.05.2018

You can also listen to this interview on a free app on iTunes and google play store entitled 'Raj Persaud in conversation', which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes....

Where there is no psychiatrist 11.04.2018

Dr Charlotte Hanlon is a British psychiatrist who lives and works in Ethiopia, linked to Addis Ababa University and King's College London. Dr Hanlon provides clinical supervision to psychiatric trainees working in general adult psychiatry in Ethiopia. She co-ordinates a PhD programme in mental health epidemiology at Addis Ababa University, from which 6 Ethiopian students have graduated and a furth...

Could you be suffering from a delusion? Who is deluded is not as easy a diagnosis as you may think. 12.02.2018

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delusions-Understanding-understandable-Peter-McKenna-ebook/dp/B07314FDKD Delusions, in their many different manifestations, are central to the concepts of madness and psychosis. Yet what causes them remains in many ways a complete mystery. McKenna's Delusions is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle one of the most arresting phenomena in psychiatry: an in-depth and cri...

Can You Live To 120? A new diet based on latest longevity research might be the answer 08.02.2018

Could you live to 120 years old? Is all disease just a manifestation of a more fundamental biological process referred to aging? Why do we get old and get sick? A revolutionary new approach to aging and disease is being pioneered by one of the foremost authorities on longevity Dr Valter Longo. Dr Raj Persaud interviews him about his latest research and new book. Professor Longo's research suggests...

Is Human Progress Inevitable? Raj Persaud talks to Professor Joel Mokyr about his new book, 'A Culture of Growth'. 06.01.2018

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The Psychology of the Whistleblower 04.01.2018

    Press Release• Sat, November 04, 2017, 7:16 PM   You can also listen to this podcast using the free app 'Raj Persaud in Conversation' for Android and Apple mobile devices; the app gives you access to more interviews with world class experts plus more free information and bonus content on the latest cutting edge psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-help, social science and neuroscience t...

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