Professor Matthew Hotopf discusses how to minimise bias in case-control studies and looks at solutions to the problems of recruiting, how many subjects to use and why it is important to report recruitment methods.

Professor Anthony David talks about the associations between insight and mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia.

Vanessa Pinfold discusses the importance of sharing service user information with carers, giving pointers on how to do this without breaking patient confidentiality. She emphasises the importance of professional judgement in decisions over what information to share or withhold and suggests strategies for improving current practices.

Dr Paul Allen challenges current thinking on the aetiology of auditory verbal hallucinations, describing how current cognitive and physiological models may be insufficient to account for these internal experiences.

Dr Leonie Boeing talks about her recent study and its findings, discussing some common problems experienced by adolescents with psychosis, management of their needs and current shortcomings in care provision.

Professor John Gunn challenges some common notions of the relationship between mental illness and homicide, taking a detailed look at the possible contributing factors towards violent behaviour in people with schizophrenia. Some questions posed are: Who is most at risk of attack? What happens in court? What should consultants consider in the management of patients with schizophrenia who may become violent?

Dr Mike Doyle discusses the main approaches to assessing risk for violence and critiques how clinicians communicate risk judgements.

Dr Quinton Deeley talks about the skills and abilities involved in empathy and which psychiatric disorders are most closely linked to it.

In this podcast we have combined two recordings: the second recording follows on immediately from the first.

In this podcast, we have combined two recordings: the second recording follows on immediately from the first.