The Royal College of Psychiatrists Podcast

Professor Michael King is based at the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London. Together with some co-authors, Professor King has published a paper in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on prevalence of common mental disorders in general practice attendees across Europe, which he discusses here with Raj Persaud

Professor Mario Incayawa is based at Runajambi Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, in Otavalo, Ecuador. Here, he discusses his recently published paper, entitled Efficacy of Quichua healers as psychiatric diagnosticians. His study can be found in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Dr David Veale is based at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Together with Dr Derek Summerfield, he has published a debate piece in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, around the issue that proposals for massive expansion of psychological therapies would be counterproductive across society. He discusses this here with Raj Persaud.

Celia Morgan, based at the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London has produced a paper with co-author, Valerie Curran on the effects of cannabidiol on schizophrenia-like symptoms in people who use cannabis, which she discusses here with Raj Persaud.

Daniel Freeman is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. With some co-authors, he’s produced a paper published in the April issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, entitled virtual reality study of paranoid thinking in the general population, which he discusses here with Raj Persaud

Harriet Ball is a PhD student of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. She and several co-authors have produced a paper, published in the April issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, on attributional style and depression. Harriet discusses the article here with Raj Persaud.

Professor Paul Bebbington is Head of the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London. He and several co-authors have produced a paper, published in the March issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on perceptions of disadvantage, ethnicity and psychosis. Here, he discusses the article with Raj Persaud

E. David Klonsky is an associate Professor of Psychology, based at the Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, New York. Here he talks to Raj Persaud about his paper, co-authored by Anne Moyer and published in the March issue of The British Journal of Psychiatry on childhood sexual abuse and non-suicidal self-injury: meta-analysis.

Professor Shôn Lewis, based at the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester, talks to Raj Persaud about his editorial, written with Jeffrey Lieberman and published in the March issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry on CATIE and CUtLASS: can we handle the truth?

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D. is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Here, he talks to Raj Persaud about the paper he recently published, with several co-authors in the British Journal of Psychiatry, on cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attempts