The assumption that therapy should always be long term has been challenged repeatedly over the past 25 years, but single-session integrated CBT (SSI-CBT) has become associated in many therapists' minds with being money driven and poor quality. Professor Windy Dryden offers a unique perspective on CBT and advocates an integrated approach to single-session therapy. Here he talks to Raj Persaud about the technique and the evidence for its effectiveness.

How much control do we have over our own lives? What role does the unconscious play in our decision-making? Psychologist Magda Osman talks to Raj Persaud about these issues and the various studies that have been conducted around agency and control.

In conversation with Dr Andrew Amos, Professor John McGrath describes his vision for expanding the impact of psychiatric research to identify modifiable risk factors for psychosis, including perinatal vitamin D, trauma, cannabis and paternal age.

Dr Raj Persaud talks to Wesley Turner and Leanne Casey, who have conducted a meta-analysis of outcomes associated with clinical virtual reality randomised controlled trials.

Dr Penny Campling is co-author of the bestselling RCPsych publication 'Intelligent Kindness' and author of the Psychiatric Bulletin paper 'Reforming the culture of healthcare: the case for intelligent kindness'. In this podcast Dr Campling talks to Ali Ajaz about the culture of healthcare and her powerful approach to healthcare reform.

Raj Persaud talks to Professor Allan Horwitz, author of the 2013 book 'Anxiety: A Short History', about our cultural understanding of anxiety and how this has changed through the centuries.

Medically unexplained symptoms can be extremely distressing and debilitating for patients, but they are often difficult to treat. In this podcast Dr Raj Persaud talks to Dr Richard Brown about his 'integrative cognitive' model of medically unexplained symptoms, and discusses the practical implications regarding treatment.

In this podcast Dr Raj Persaud discusses the meaning and underlying psychological constructs of optimism with Dr Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus, author of the paper 'Hope, Optimism and Delusion' published in the Psychiatric Bulletin.

Organisations can be notoriously bad at the retention and development of talented people. In this podcast Professor Adrian Furnham discusses his book (co-authored with Ian MacRae), High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work, with Dr Raj Persaud; focusing on what talent really is and recognising how it differs from leadership.

In this podcast Dr Amy Manley talks to Dr Kate Saunders about her study on psychiatric assessment of mood instability using qualitative methods to explore the patient experience of the assessment process.