The Good Mental Health Podcast
Welcome to Good Mental Health - where we share inspiring interviews about mental health, psychology and well-being. From specialists to real-life cases - each holds key insights, evidence-based knowledge, research, free resources and hope.
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Newest Episode: 'Supporting clients with long COVID'
with Jayne Timmins
Long COVID is a pressing public health issue that needs more attention. With a wide range of symptoms and no standard definition, many are suffering without proper diagnosis or treatment. In this podcast, Jayne Timmins offers valuable insights on how to move forward from Long COVID with practical skills for relieving stress, depression, loneliness, chronic fatigue, and more. Let's raise awareness and support those struggling with this complex condition.
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The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
Meeting emotional needs whilst socially isolating or working from home
Our mental and physical health depend upon meeting emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune syst
Working with more complex forms of PTSD: important provisos
Emily Gajewski shares her case experience with working with more complex forms of PTSD
The power of deep relaxation and guided imagery
Dr Farouk Okhai describes the power of using deep relaxation and guided imagery techniques.
A Christmas Carol... or a tale of three therapists?
James Tapper suggests that Charles Dickens’s famous seasonal novel contains much that reflects the human givens approach to therapy.
To advise or not advise: that is the ethical question
Sam Gerrard throws new light on the case for directive or non-directive counselling.
The Social Brain
Denise Winn talks with Professor John Ratey about the brain as a social organ, and the need to be alert early to inept social skills.
Why we Dream
Last night, while you slept, you were often dreaming. You probably don't remember because, for a very good reason, we evolved not to. However all normal humans dream every night and most mammals show evidence of this brain pattern too.
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The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult
Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.
Exploring the CULT in culture
Looking at cult behaviour. A revised version (including additional material) of an article by Ivan Tyrrell, first published in 1993, that explores Dr Arthur Deikman's enlightening work on cult behaviour.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
The APET™ model: standing cognitive therapy on its head
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell describe a biologically-based theory which explains the shortcomings of purely cognitive approaches and why effective therapies can work fast.
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why the human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in a handful sessions — or fewer.
The therapist's account
Read Mike Beard's therapist account of Nina's treatment.
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