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Beyond Madness
Hosted by Professor Christopher Paul Szabo, Beyond Madness is a podcast series where we discuss societal issues that have potential implications for mental health and emotional well-being. Guests include thought leaders from within the discipline of Psychiatry, and beyond. Mental health issues aff...
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Journalism, Journalists and Mental Wellness
Journalists are facing threats and hostility in more countries than ever before, according to this year’s World Press Freedom Index, an annual report...
Psychiatry - Quo Vadis?
Psychiatry is unique amongst medical disciplines in embracing a truly holistic approach to patient assessment and care. However, in our desire for acc...
Youth Self-Harm and Suicidality
Cutting or burning oneself, amongst other behaviours, would be for most anathema. Yet for some it is a source of relief... a release, a way of coping....
PTSD: Crime, Trauma, Justice & Healing
Gender-based violence and sexual assault are traumas potentially associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Prof Soraya Seedat and Dr Gerard Labu...
Psychiatry in the Workplace
Employee wellness is a key component of organisational effectiveness. Where ill health and absenteeism or impaired functioning is a consequence of psy...
Loneliness
Imagine a condition that makes a person irritable, depressed and self-centred, and is associated with a 26% increase in the risk of premature mortalit...
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Adverse Childhood Experiences are increasingly understood to play a significant role in the development of a range of not only psychiatric - but also...
Sexual Health and Psychiatry
Is sex central to our existence? Consider what your life might be like without sex. Sex is also political... and political ideology impacts health beh...
Suicide and the Media
The role of the news media in reporting events and reflecting social opinion serves to inform consumers. The question is how to balance reporting - pr...
Ageing
Ageing... there’s no escaping it. It has been said that youth is wasted on the young, but what is 'young' – a number, or a state of mind? Dr Lara Gree...
Poverty and Mental Illness
"Poverty is both a cause of mental health problems, and a consequence” (Knifton & Inglis, 2020). Prof Crick Lund, Dr John Parker and Danny Diliberto j...
Trauma and Disorders of Stress
The term ‘trauma’ is very widely used, and the experience of trauma is cited as underlying a host of psychiatric conditions. On this episode, we are j...
Loss and Grief
The loss of someone close to us is a reality that has either already happened, or will happen to each one of us. Loss is an inevitable consequence of...
Bullying
As a parent, one of the more difficult and challenging scenarios would be to discover that your child is being bullied, or is a bully. The stereotypic...
Alcoholism and The 12 Steps
The ‘12 steps’ are synonymous with alcoholism... but what are these ‘steps', and do they provide a blueprint for recovery related only to alcoholism?...
Self-Help: A Means to What End?
It has been said that South Africa has a mental health crisis, and that the solution starts with “educating ourselves”, specifically about mental heal...
Palliative Care, Assistance with Dying
'Assisted dying' involves patients with incurable illnesses, whose condition is not amenable to meaningful relief, such that their lives are - in thei...
Psychotherapy: When is Enough?
Are we living in an increasingly 'therapised' world, where the solution to every problem is therapy or counselling? Have we become a society where pro...
Chromosomes, Feelings & Gender
We are living through times where terms like 'gender incongruence' and 'gender dysphoria' constitute - for some - the beginning of a journey of 'gende...
Religion, Beliefs and Well-being
A recent article in The Spectator magazine posed an intriguing question: “Is losing God making America miserable?”. The percentage of Americans believ...
Animals and Healing
The role of 'companion animals' in providing comfort for those living with mental health problems has been studied, with positive benefits demonstrate...
Mindfulness and Self-Awareness
We live in a world of distractions. Does one need to be an adherent of a specific philosophical approach to find inner peace? Or can one access it by...
Mental Health in the Workplace
A successful business has many components. Increasingly, organisations are focusing on employee wellness, understanding that a healthy workforce is a...
Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Healers are expected to heal, always. Patients (and their families) have expectations of being healed, always. Expectations. But what if the healer is...
The Gut, the Brain and Mental Health
The gut and the brain are linked, and that link may be more than the gut simply sending a message to the brain after a meal to signal satisfaction. Wh...
Serotonin: What's the Fuss?
Is depression caused by a 'chemical imbalance'? Is the serotonin theory of depression valid? How do antidepressant medications work? Does 'Big Pharma'...
Body Image and Aesthetic Surgery
What motivates someone to seek out cosmetic procedures? Vanity? Perceived need? Or actual need? Is feeling uncomfortable with one’s appearance not leg...
Victims and Perpetrators
South Africa has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world. We speak to the father of a victim about the tragic event, and the criminal justic...
Abortion: Whose Life Is It?
The WHO reports that 121 million pregnancies annually are unintended, further noting that 6 out of 10 unintended pregnancies end in abortion. The WHO...
Traditional Healers and Healthcare
Traditional healers... who are they, what do they do, and how are they involved in the lives of many South Africans - as healers - outside of the form...
Women’s Mental Health
Does women’s mental health differ from men’s mental health? Is gender a critical variable, and does it play a role in how mental illness expresses its...
Depression: A Role for Ketamine?
Depression is a debilitating condition, and medication can take weeks to provide relief. Suicide is a risk, and potential consequence. Psychiatry, as...
Living with Learning Problems
Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, and Richard Branson – what do they have in common? Success, fame… and dyslexia – a specific learning disor...
Dreams – individual meaning or general purpose?
Have you ever woken up, profoundly disturbed by a dream and wondered what it meant? Maybe nothing... but the images linger. Maybe dreams don’t mean an...
Assisted Dying
Have you ever had a loved one or friend with a chronic condition, suffering, with no prospect of recovery – and they spoke of wanting to die... wishin...
Living with ADHD
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a condition associated primarily with children, but is increasingly being diagnosed in adults too....
The Trauma of Loss
The loss of a loved one, friend, or even a colleague is never easy. Whether the loss is directly personal or not, it generally gives pause to reflect....
The Psychology of Serial Killers
What is the societal fascination for serial killers all about? Who are these people who live amongst us, undetected, going about their crimes? What do...
Youth and Social Media
As a parent, do you worry that your child is spending too much time on their smartphone or other electronic devices? Are you concerned that they are m...
Divorce and Child Custody
Why should a perfectly good parent inside a marriage be potentially less so, outside of the marriage? Custody seems to equate with ownership of the ch...