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Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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"All in the Mind聽provides a unique chance to meet the people at the cutting edge of research and developments on all aspects of the mind and brain from around the world. Please join me as we attempt to illuminate the most complex and least understood mechanism we have so far found in the Universe - the mind."
Dr Raj Persaud
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Jeremy Laurance
Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor of the Independent, talks about his new book Pure Madness - How fear drives the mental health service. For Pure Madness Jeremy Laurence travelled across the country observing the care provided to mentally ill people in Britain today. Based on interviews, visits and case histories, his book reveals a service driven by fear in which risk reduction through containment by physical or chemical means is the priority.
Pure Madness is published on the 18th November by Routledge (and available at all good bookshops!) Price 拢9.99
Crisis House
Crisis homes are a radical new innovation for the mental health services. All in the Mind visits one of the few crisis houses in the country, the Selene Centre for women in Birmingham. Its run by an organisation called 'Change' which stands for Choice and Alternatives for Growth and Experience. It's a response to the growing demand for alternatives to the standard psychiatric hospital. The principle on which crisis houses work is that a diagnosis of mental illness doesn't need to be the end of the road - instead crisis can actually be a turning point.
For more information on Crisis Homes see:
Chronic Worrying
Now, are you a worrier? And if you are, do you worry about it? If so, you're a chronic worrier, and you've probably already followed the standard advice, which is to relax and forget your worries, or to avoid situations that trigger them. But this only works for about half those who try it, and the degree of improvement is variable.
Professor Adrian Wells, who's based at Manchester University, talks about the different approach he's been using. He's just completed a trial and he's had some very positive results. Earlier I asked him what's different about his treatment?
offers support for suffers of panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, General Anxiety Disorder (excessive worrying) and tranquilliser withdrawal - free phone number 0808 808 0545 - staffed 10am to 10pm.
- The Anxiety Disorders Charity - a user-led organisation run by sufferers and ex-sufferers of anxiety disorders. National phone number: 0870 7700 456
Personality tests
In the last in our series of personality tests Claudia Hammond takes a look at the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI. It was developed in the 1940s by a mother and daughter team, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs. They based it on the theories of Carl Gustav Jung. More than 7000 studies have examined it and more than 2 million people worldwide do the test each year. Rowan Byrne from the University of East London has dedicated his career to researching it. He and Jo Silvester, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London showed Claudia how it differs from other personality assessments.
Over recent weeks we've reviewed probably the 4 best know personality tests - but just how useful are they - are they best for job selection, or for pin-pointing areas for self-development? One of the foremost commentators on personality assessment currently is Professor Michael Apter, from Georgetown University in Washington DC who talks about the future of personality testing and his own reversal theory.
To find out more about Michael Apter's reversal theory psychometric instruments in business see:
Motivational Styles in Everyday Life: a Guide to Reversal Theory by Michael J Apter
Hardcover - 373 pages (April 2001)
American Psychological Association; ISBN: 1557987394
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or email: enquiries@apterinternational.com
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