Bonus: Why Perfectionism is your Enemy
How is Perfectionism best understood? Why does it actually hold you back? Bonus Episode by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a specialist registrar in General Adult psychiatry in the South London and Maud...
17 Nov 20229min
Interview #41: Attachment, Dating, Relationships, Marriage & Psychotherapy (with Adam Lane Smith)
Adam Lane Smith is a psychotherapist, coach and author. In this episode we discuss: dating, attachment, relationship problems, marriage, psychotherapy and much more. You can find out more about Adam...
11 Nov 20221h 2min
Audio Essay #15: Why Do We Have Personalities?
What is a Personality? How should we think about our Personalities? How can you expand your Personality? Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a specialist registrar in General Adult psychiatr...
28 Okt 202232min
Audio Essay #14: Getting a More Balanced Perspective
This is an audio-essay about three unhelpful thinking habits, or cognitive distortions, where we think about some examples, why these ways of thinking are unhelpful and what we can do about them. Ther...
14 Okt 202215min
Lived Experience #3: Anorexia Nervosa
In our third lived experience episode Rebecca speaks with Ella about her experiences with Anorexia: how it started, the effects it had on her thinking, how it affected her family life and her process ...
30 Sep 202251min
Lived Experience #2: Psychosis (with Ad Gridley)
Ad Gridley was 18 when he had his first cannabis joint while on a gap year in Canada. He had no idea his choices then would – most likely – be the trigger for a 15-year unremitting, downward spiral th...
17 Sep 202242min
Interview #40: Psychiatry in a Time of War (With Dr. Natalia Pidkalyuk)
Dr Pidkalyuk is a Ukrainian psychiatrist. Dr Pidkalyuk has worked as a psychiatrist since 2004, and with local government set up a centre for stress disorders in the local polyclinic. In 2021, Dr Pidk...
2 Sep 202237min
Audio Essay #13 - This is Going to Hurt: Why Growth is Hard (and why you should do it anyway)
How can we define Psychological Growth? Which traits define a mature person? Why is it hard to grow Psychologically? Why Should you do it Anyway? Audio-essay by Dr. Alex Curmi. Dr. Curmi is a specia...
19 Aug 202213min
