The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis talks to Dr Chrissy Boardman about issues for the profession, the role of the consultant psychiatrist, and his work as Registrar.

Dr Claire Dillon, consultant forensic psychiatrist talks to Alain, former patient, about his experience of being admitted to hospital.

Professor Ilana Crome talks to Dr Owen Bowden-Jones about the newly published College report entitled Our Invisible Addicts, which deals with substance misuse problems in older people.

Dr Norman Poole is a locum consultant liaison psychiatrist, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Dr Poole trained in psychiatry at St George's Hospital and Medical School where he developed an interest in liaison and neuropsychiatry. Here, Dr Poole discusses his published paper on Abreaction for conversion disorder: systematic review with meta-analysis with interviewer, Dr Ovais Badat. The paper, written with some co-authors, appeared in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Professor Stefan Priebe, Chair for Social and Community Psychiatry at Barts and the London School of Medicine has been the principal investigator of a number of large national and international studies, and authored more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has also been an advisor to the UK government, and various regional organizations, on service development in psychiatry. Together with some co-authors he has published a paper in the March issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on Patients’ views of involuntary hospital admission. Here he discusses this topic with Dr Saliha Nazir.

Dr King-wa Fu is a Research Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC), at the University of Hong Kong. Together with his co-authors, Dr Fu has published a paper in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on Internet addiction: prevalence, discriminant validity and correlates among adolescents in Hong Kong. Here, he discusses the topic with Dr Ovais Badat

Dr Louise Howard is Head of the new Section of Women’s Mental Health at the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL. Together with her co-authors, Dr Howard has published a paper on Supported employment: randomised controlled trial in the May issue of the BJP. Here, she discusses the topic with Dr Ovais Badat

Kevin Healy is a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy and Lead Clinician of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond in London. He has worked for many years with individuals suffering the impact of personality disorder on themselves and on their families. He is particularly interested in working therapeutically with young people and their families. He is a former Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, is presently on the executive of the Psychotherapy Faculty and is a member of the Public Education Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Here, Dr Healy talks to Director of Communications & Policy, Deborah Hart, about his experience of visiting a London school where 10 months previously, they had experienced the suicide of a pupil.

Dr Daphne Keen is a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician and honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s, London. Her clinical interests have largely focused on the neurodevelopmental disorders presenting with Autism and ADHD, and the development of multidisciplinary approaches and care pathways in these areas, and more recently, in Selective Mutism. She has a particular interest in the interaction between developmental and behavioural disorders and in the use of psychopharmacology. Together with her co-authors, Dr Keen has published a paper on autism, ethnicity and maternal immigration in the April issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Here, she explores this topic with Dr Ovais Badat

Dinesh Bhugra, Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry was elected unopposed as President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and took up post in July 2008. Here, Dinesh chats to Dr Mark Salter about his career in psychiatry and his presidency.