The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

To commemorate LGBT History Month RCPsych interviewed a psychiatrist and a service user, both in the LGBT Community, on mental health, education and gender identity.

Perinatal podcast by RCPsych

Forensic Podcast with Professor Pamela Taylor and Alain part 2 by RCPsych

Forensic Podcast with Professor Pamela Taylor and Alain part 1 by RCPsych

Raj Persaud talks to Professor David Taylor after his keynote talk at the 2019 RCPsych Congress about the right and wrong ways to discontinue psychiatric medication. He explains why antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs should not be stopped abruptly, and outlines the methods that can be used to effectively taper down these drugs with a view to eventual discontinuation.

In 1969, psychiatrist Anthony Storr published an essay that established very firmly in the public imagination that Sir Winston Churchill suffered from recurrent attacks of severe depression, which he termed the ‘black dog’. But how much evidence is there to support this diagnosis? In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud interviews Dr Anthony Daniels about his recent paper which calls into question this supposed diagnosis, and considers the extent to which Churchill’s low moods could be accounted for by circumstance and simple human nature.

In his 2019 book ‘On Freedom’, Professor Cass Sunstein invites us to rethink the way we consider freedom of choice as a concept. Are we truly free to make our own decisions, or are we being guided, influenced and even manipulated in the choices we make day to day? In this thought-provoking podcast, Raj Persuad talks to Professor Sunstein about his perspective on this crucial aspect of the human condition.

The inflamed mind: a radical new approach to depression

Dr Ali Ajaz, a specialty trainee in forensic psychiatry, interviews consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Paul Simon Williams about his work.

This podcast focuses on 'Neurocognitive basis of insight in schizophrenia' from the June 2007 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry