The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

Dr Ken Checinski talks to Michael (a member of the RCPsych Addictions Faculty User and Carer Committee) about his journey to recovery from a very serious alcohol problem

Dr Simon Moore is a psychologist working in the School of Dentistry, Cardiff University. He is co-lead on the Youth Alcohol Research Network and a member of the Violence and Society Research Group. Together with some co-authors, he has published a short report in the October issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on confectionery consumption in childhood and adult violence. Here, he discusses this topic with Dr Margaret Murphy

Diane Goslar is a service user who attends an Alcohol Treatment Service in central London, now as an after-care patient. Here Diane talks with Dr Ken Checinski about her on-going struggle with, and recovery from, alcoholism

Lord Owen discusses his recent book on Hubris Syndrome; Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power with Professor Peter Tyrer, Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and author of Nidotherapy.

Dr Dominic Beer is based at the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Bracton Centre in Kent and has published a paper in the December issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin entitled Psychiatric intensive care and low secure units: where are we now? Here he discusses his paper with Dr Mark Salter.

Professor Kam Bhui is based at the Centre for Psychiatry, Barts & The London Medical School. Together with some co-authors, Professor Bhui has published a paper in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry entitled ‘Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin in England and Wales: 1993–2003’. Here, he discusses the paper with Dr Mark Salter.

Dr Susham Gupta is a specialist registrar in adult and old age psychiatry and is currently based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Together with co-author, Dr James Warner, Dr Gupta has published an editorial for the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry entitled Alcohol-related dementia: a 21st-century silent epidemic? Here, he discusses his paper with Dr Mark Salter.

Dr Marcia Kauer-Sant'Anna is based at the Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Mood Disorders Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Together with some co-authors, Dr Kauer-Sant’Anna has published a paper in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on emotional memory in bipolar disorder, which she discusses here with Raj Persaud

Dr Rose McCabe is based at the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts, and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. With her co-author, Dr Stefan Priebe, Dr McCabe has published a paper in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on Communication and psychosis: it's good to talk, but how? She discusses the paper here with Raj Persaud

Dr Mark Walterfang is a psychiatrist based at the Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne. Together with some co-authors, Dr Walterfang has published a paper in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on morphology of the corpus callosum at different stages of schizophrenia: cross-sectional study in first-episode and chronic illness. He discusses his paper here with Raj Persaud.