All in the mind (podcast)
Subject: Psychology
Type: Podcast
Made by: The BBC
How long is it?
There are 327 episodes. Each episode is 28-30 minutes long.
Is it easy to understand?
You’ll be able to follow it, even if you don’t know much about psychology.
Who is it for?
It is aimed at anyone with an interest in psychology or neuroscience. Please be aware that some conversations about mental health may be upsetting or triggering.
How recent is it?
All in the Mind began in 2007 and continues to release episodes to this day.
1:4 and Stigma
9/11 Guilt
22 the Avenue Phoneline
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ADHD
ADHD Medication Shortage
Adolescent Brain
Adoption and Social Networking
Ageless Psychiatry
Agreeableness and Money
Aids Orphans
Aircraft Noise and Mental Health
Air Pollution and Mental Health
Airport Security
Alcohol and the Brain
Alexander Morison Archive
Alzheimer’s Disease
Ambiguous Loss
American Presidents
Amnesia Museum
The Anatomy of Kindness
Anatomy of Touch
Anchoring
Anger as a useful emotion
The Anna Freud Centre
Anorexia
Anti-depressants
Antipsychotic Drugs
Anxiety
Anxiety-free Comedy Gigs
APA
Aphantasia and Depression Musical
Aphasia
Archaeology and Mental Health
Arctic Scientists’ Mental Health
Are Bucket Lists a Good Thing?
Are Moods Contagious?
Arson
Art and Psychiatrists
Astronauts
Attitudes to Mental Health
Autism
Autobiographical Memory
Automatic Writing
Avatars and Eyewitness Testimony
Awards to Recognise Outstanding Help and Support in Mental Health
Awareness in Children
Awe
Babble Stimulus
Babies As Jokers
Battlefield Military Mental Health
Battlemind
The Benefits of Keeping Positive Secrets
The Benefits of Snoozing Your Alarm
Big Brain Projects
Bilingualism
Bipolar Disorder
Birdsong and Wellbeing
Black Cab Quotes
Blogging
Blue Health
Blue Light
Board Game
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body Image
Boomerang Generation
Boredom
The Boredom of the Drone Operator
Brain Donation
Brain Health in Later Life
The Brain Prize
Brains
Brain Scans for Personality Traits
Breaking Bad Habits
Breastfeeding
Bribery and Corruption
Buildings and Neurodiversity
Bullying
Burma Mental Health
Bystander Effect
Café Conversations
CALMTown
Can Gratitude Change Young People’s Lives?
Canine Jealousy
Can We Fix Mental Health Care?
Can You Imagine Sounds in Your Head?
Care Farming
Carers
Carl Jung
Carl Rogers
The Case of HM
Challenging Antisocial Behaviour
Changing Mindsets
Charisma
Children and War
Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Children Who Kill
Chocolate Cravings
Choices Children Make
Christian Jarrett
Citizen Mental Health Campaign
Citizens UK and Mental Health
Climate Change Psychology
Clio Barnard
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Fatigue in Soldiers
Cognitive Psychology
Comic Strips
Communicating Risk
Community Treatment Orders
Compassion
Complaints Choirs
Compulsive Sexual Behaviour and the Internet
Confidence
Conjoined Twins
Conspiracy Theories
Contingency Management
Corpus Callosum
Correct Vocabulary in Describing Mental Health
Counselling in Later Life
Counter-messaging
Covid
Crying and Lying
Cyber Snooping Your Therapist
Dame Kelly Holmes
The Dangers of Diagnosing Donald Trump
Daniel Kahneman
Dean Burnett
Debt and Mental Health
Decriminalising Drugs
Defeat
Defence
Dementia
Depersonalisation Disorder
The Depressed Cake Shop
Depression
Designer Asylum
Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder
Digital Memories
Directors in Theatre and Film Turn to Psychologists
Disclosing Mental Health Histories
Dishonesty Researcher Accused of Fraud
Doctors in Difficulty
Does Money Really Make You Happy?
Does Working in the Office Boost Well-being?
Do Lonely Brains See the World Differently?
Doomsday Prophets
Dreams and Dreaming
Drug Side Effects
Drug Trials
DSM-5
Dyslexia
Early Life Stress and Catching Cold
Earworms
Eating Disorders
Ecotherapy
The Effect of Live Music
Electronic Mental Health Records
Elegy
EMDR
Emodiversity
Emotional Brain Training
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
Empathic Cars
Employment and Mental Illness
Engine Idling
English Riots
Entitlement and Bad Luck
Epilepsy
Estimating Body Size
The Everyday Effect of Unconscious Bias
The Evidence for ‘Green Therapy’
Evolutionary Prejudice
Exam Revision
Exams and the Mental Health of Children
Exercise
Exploding Head Syndrome
Extrovert Listening
Eyes That Betray Personality
F1 Drivers
Fabricated or Induced Illnesses
Facial Mimicry
Fake News
False Alarm Crowd Panic
The Feel Good Garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Feeling an Unseen Presence
Film Cuts and Attention
Financial Strain and Pain
First Impressions
Fraud in Psychology
Freud
The Future of Mental Health Care
Gambling and Superstition
Gaming Addiction
Gardening for Mental Health
Gaydar
The Gender Citation Gap
Gender Stereotyping in Babies
Geo-magnetic Fields
Girls’ Mental Health?
Global Mental Health
A Good Cry?
Green Exercise
Green Prescriptions a Joy or Chore?
Grief
Guantanamo
Gut Bacteria and the Mind
Happiness and Optimism
Heart Failure
Heroes
HMP Grendon
Hoarding Disorder
Honesty Within Adoption
How Children Learn
How Children Think About Maths and Time
How Mad Are You?
How Maths Ability Might Relate to Ball-Catching Skills
How Much Empathy Should Doctors Have?
How Nightmares Link to Real-life Fears
How to Be Invisible
How to Cope when Your Child Can’t
How to Find Help for Your Own Mental Health
How to Help Friends
How You Can Feel Less Lonely
Humour Seriously
Hypermobility
Hypnotism
Hypocrisy
Hysteria
Images of Psychiatry
Imitation in Newborn Babies
The Impact of Bad News
The Impact of Psychology Research
The Importance of Play in Childhood
Imposter Syndrome
Improving Personal Growth
Incivility of Politicians
Increasing Humility
Insanity Law
Insiders’ Guide to Mental Health
Insomnia
Intensive Care
Interoceptive Skills
Intoxication of Power
Intuition
Invisible Smile
IQ Tests
Iraq Mental Health Services
Is Wisdom a Trait or a State?
Ivan Lewis
Junk Food Adverts
Ketamine
Kevan Jones MP
Kindness
A Knitting Prescription
Languishing
Laughter
Law for Emotion
Lawyers’ Wellbeing
Learning and Taking Breaks
Learning Disabilities
Learning to Dance
Learning to Hope
Left Handedness
Lie Detector
Life After Being a Carer
Life in and out of Asylums
The Light Triad
The Lipstick Effect
The Listening Place
Lockdown Easing and Mental Health
Lockdown Resilience
London Bombings
London’s East End Baby Language Lab
The Loneliness Experiment
Looking Inside the Minds of Our Pets
Louis Wain Exhibition
Magicians
Magnetic Seizure Therapy
Male Friendship
Manifestation
MDMA for Alcohol Dependence
Media Portrayals of Mental Health
The Me Generation
Memorising Art
Memory
Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health in Hong Kong
Mental Health in Prisons
Mental Health in the City
Mental Health Liaison Officers
Mental Health Manifestos
Mental Health Myths
Mental Health of Young Children
Mental Health Policies
Mental Health Support in Community
A Mental Health Triage Scheme
Mental Illness
Metaphors
Milgram Revisited
Mind-wandering and Happiness
Mindfulness
Mind Wars
Minister Paul Barstow
Mirror-pain
Mirror Neurons
Misophonia
Money and Motivation
Money for Medication
Mood Phone Apps
Moon & Madness
MPs Guide to Mental Health
Musical Hallucinations
Music Therapy
Mystery Mental Health Shoppers
Myths About Van Gogh’s Mental Health
NDAs
The Need for Possessions
Negative Thoughts
Negotiating a Crisis
Neuromyths
The ‘Neuro-novel’
Neuroscience and the Law
New Approach to Spider Phobia
New Drugs for Psychosis
New Lockdown Jobs
New MPs on Mental Health
A New Play About Mental Health Services
News Consumption and Wellbeing
NHS Acute Bed Shortages
The “Nudge” to Good Behaviour
Nuremberg Code
The Nurse Who Went the Extra Mile to Help Her Cancer Patient
OCD
Optical Illusions
Organophosphates
Ostracism
Our Visual Experience: Perception of Colour and Eye Contact
Overconfidence
Owls and Larks
Oxytocin and Kindness
Pain and the Brain
Panic Attacks
Paranoia
Parapsychology
Parasites and Entrepreneurship
Parenting
Pathological Demand Avoidance
Patient Case Histories
Paul Broks
Pen or Keyboard for Notetaking?
The Perfection Trap: Do You Feel ‘Good Enough’?
Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Persecutory Delusions
Personality Change
Personality Traits and Spending Behaviour
Personal Space
Persuasion
Phonagnosia
Photos in Textbooks
Physiognomy
Pink Drinks Make You Run Faster
Placebo Power
Polonium-210
Polygraph Testing for Sex Offenders
Post-Olympic Blues
Post-Pandemic Mental Health
The Power of Expectation
Predicting the Future
Preferring Our Own Ideas
Preventing Flashbacks
Pride
Prisoner of War Diaries
Professional Boundaries
Professor James Fallon’s Self-discovery
Psychiatrist Shortage
Psychics
Psychoanalytic Film Festival
Psychogenic Seizures
Psychological Enjoyment of Wine
The Psychological Impact on Her Children of Her Ex Husband’s Sexual Offences
Psychologist for Referees
Psychologists Tackling Poverty
Psychology of a Mars Mission
Psychology of Autonomous Cars
The Psychology of Awkwardness
The Psychology of Courage and Bravery
The Psychology of Hope
The Psychology of Motivation and Procrastination
The Psychology of Online Dating
The Psychology of Regret
The Psychology of Secrets
The Psychology of Voting
The Psychology of Whistleblowing
Psychology Replication Crisis
Psychosis
PTSD
Putting Yourself in Someone Else’s Shoes
Race
Radicalisation
Radio Drama Changing Attitudes
Rapport
Raw Sounds Music Project
Recipe of Life
Recognising Dog Expressions
Recovery
Refugee Doctors
Refugee Mental Health
Religious Terrorism
The Remote Psychiatrist
Reporting Neuroscience
Rest and Slothfulness
Restraint in Mental Health Hospitals
Rewriting the Psychiatrists’ Bible
Risk Tolerance in the Brain
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine
Robin Ince
Robot Therapy
Romanian Orphans
Rowing the Atlantic in the Name of Science
Safe Music for Driving
Savant Syndrome
The Scent of Fear Makes Us More Observant
Schadenfreude
Schizophrenia
The Science Behind Screentime
The Science of Attraction
The Science of Meetings
Screen Time for Young People
The Search for Meaning in the Modern World
Seasonality
Self-Care
Self-Driving Cars and the Pedestrian
Self-Harm
The Self-help Craze
Sexual Abuse by Clergy
Should Therapists Cry?
Sibling Rivalry
Siblings with Mental Health Problems
Skin Disorders
Sleep
Sleep Paralysis
Smell Blindness
Smoking
Solitary Confinement
Space Therapy
Space Travel’s Impact on the Brain
Spatial Navigation
Sports Participation
Spring
Stalking
Star Wards
Statutory Regulation
Steven Pinker
Stories of Loss and Hope
Street Therapy
Stress
The Sudden Rise in Teenagers Developing Tics During the Pandemic
Suicide
Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder
Superforecasters
Supertaskers
Swine Flu
Synaesthesia
Talking Therapies
Talking to Strangers
Talking to the Dying
Tasers
Taste and Music
The Taste of Food
Taxi Drivers
Technology to Replace Exams
Teenage Relationships
Teenagers’ Brains
Testosterone and City Traders
Tetris As Therapy
Therapeutic Design
Think Ahead Scheme
Time Standing Still
Toxic Positivity
Traditional Healers
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Transient Amnesia
Trauma
Treatment for Arsonists
‘Treating’ Homosexuality
Tribute to Anthony Clare
Trigger Warnings
Turn-taking in Conversation
Twenty Four Hour Memory Loss
The Unconscious Mind
Understanding the Brain
Unfitness to Plead
Untranslatable Words
Urban Rewilding for Wellbeing
USA Racist Killings and Mental Health of Black Americans
US Elections and Mental Health
Use of You
The Victorian ‘Mad Doctor’
Viewing Bodies
Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning
Visual Neglect
Visual Overload
Voices & Personality
West Park Psychiatric Hospital
What Mastermind Can Tell Us About Blinking
Who Do You Think You Are?
Wind Farms
Witnessing Rudeness
Work Capability Test
Worrying
Wound Healing & Expressive Writing
Yawning
Yoga in Prisons
Young Offenders
My thoughts…
I chose a handful episodes of All in the Mind to listen to and I’ve written my thoughts on a few of the topics discussed. These episodes intrigued me the most:
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Compassion and Faith – Junk Food Adverts – Magicians
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30/10/2012
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Sibling rivalry, Prisoner of war diaries, Inflammation and depression
The power of compassion in improving mental health
I think what makes compassion such a useful tool in improving mental health is that it’s a skill that anyone can learn. Although compassion-focused therapy is a good way to go about it, we can also become more compassionate by practicing it as we go about our lives.
It’s important to note that compassion isn’t just about showing empathy and kindness to others, but that it’s something we can show to ourselves as well. For those with anger issues, practicing outward compassion is very important, but I think it’s probably more common that we are uncompassionate to ourselves. For people with eating disorders or people who have experienced abuse, self-compassion plays a crucial role in rebuilding their self-worth. It can help them realise that their negative emotions are not their fault, so they don’t need to feel ashamed of them. In this way, people who struggle to love themselves can give themselves permission to change their attitudes and behaviours. As well as this, I think if we can all work on compassion, and ask ourselves why we find it difficult, the world would be a better place.
Why guilt can be a useful emotion
I think that guilt is a sign of being conscientious, which can be a very useful personality trait. For example, the feeling of responsibility that comes with being guilt-prone could make people more co-operative and better leaders. As well as this, feeling guilty about having made a mistake could make you better at making amends for it and preventing it happening again. The discomfort of the feeling of guilt also motivates us to avoid it. For these reasons, I think guilt is a useful emotion, although it can be unpleasant
The benefits of growing up with a sibling
Growing up with a sibling can feel incredibly frustrating, but I think it can actually help us develop important skills. For example, children with siblings learn how to argue in a way that doesn’t sacrifice the approval of their parents. In addition, children with younger siblings, who learn that being helpful and caring wins them their parents’ attention, can become more nurturing.
I think one of the greatest benefits of having a sibling is that they are someone who shares many of your childhood memories and experiences, which is incredibly special. The relationships we have with our siblings are usually longer than those with the majority of our friends, which is why I think they are such important relationships.