In the final episode of the 2021 Podcast Series cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan, who was named in BBC’s list of the top 100 influential and inspirational women in 2018, joins PSI’s Dr Anne Kehoe as they discuss trauma, in this case a terminal cervical cancer diagnosis. Vicky and Anne discuss the psychological impact that such a devastating cancer has on a woman, on her relationship with her partner/spouse, and on how women view themselves following a cervical cancer diagnosis.

In the third episode of the series, singer songwriter Damien Dempsey and PSI Chartered member Dr Damien Lowry explore men’s mental health in ‘Waxing Lyrical About Male Mental Health’. Lowry, a Senior Counselling Psychologist who has worked in hospital psychology for over 16 years, and Dempsey discuss mental health problems and their links to social issues, as well as the mental health tones portrayed in Dempsey’s lyrics and how psychology helps people heal from depression.

The second instalment in the 2021 PSI podcast series coincides with World Autism Awareness Day and sees PSI Chartered Member Ruth Connolly and Adam Harris, CEO of Ireland’s national Autism charity AsIAm, explore ‘Autism Awareness and Autism Acceptance’.

In the first episode of the Psychological Society of Ireland's (PSI) 2021 Podcast Series we welcome PSI Chartered Member and Professor of Psychology at NUI Galway, Prof. Brian Hughes, and Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Prof. Luke O'Neill, as they discuss circumstances surrounding the pandemic, vaccine hesitancy and where the nation currently stands in the fight against COVID-19.

In the last episode of the PSI Podcast Series: Part 2, we are joined by Dr Olive Moloney, Chartered Member of the PSI and Clinical Manager at Jigsaw, and Karen O’Donoghue from Jigsaw Kerry’s Youth Advisory Panel, to discuss Mental Health and Young People.

In the second last episode of the PSI Podcast Series: Part 2, we speak to Alison Dillon and Niamh Doody, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and members of the PSI’s Early Graduate Group, about How to Become a Psychologist.

In our next episode of the PSI Podcast Series: Part 2, we present to you Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chartered Psychologist and member of the Division of Psychotherapy, Stephanie Bloom-Nervi, joins us to speak about this extremely relevant topic.

This week in our PSI Podcast Series: Part 2, we are joined by Chartered Member Lorraine Madden, Clinical Director and Educational Psychologist, and member of the PSI Special Interest Group in Autism, as she speaks to us extensively about Autism.

In the next podcast of Part 2 in the PSI Podcast Series, we meet with Psychologist and Behaviour Specialist, and member of the Division of Behaviour Analysis at the PSI, Padraig Walsh, who speaks about the role of behaviour analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic. This podcast was recorded some months ago, therefore, it focuses predominantly upon behaviour change during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first podcast in part 2 of our 2020 series sees Chartered Member Kathleen Halligan and Ian Croxon, Organisational Psychologist, discuss a topic that is particularly relevant at the moment: Office based and remote working – how to get the best of both worlds.