What’s Next in Mental Health?

About What’s Next in Mental Health?

What’s Next in Mental Health is a podcast for professionals and enthusiasts. It discusses key challenges, future visions and advances in the big picture of mental health. Topics range from neuroscience perspectives to reforming the diagnostic system and the future of psychedelic-assisted therapy. In each episode psychologist and psychotherapist Helena Service talks to an expert about their work and ideas about how to move the field forward.

Publisher

MinduuPro

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2022

Latest episode

28 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jan 2026

   Social Prescribing and Creative Health (with Prof. Helen Chatterjee)

   Clinical care is estimated to account for only 20% of a person’s health outcomes. So how do we tackle the far more influential social and economic determinants of health? Social prescribing is one of the approaches aiming to change how we view health by recognising that wellbeing is shaped as much by social factors as by medicine. It is centered around connecting people with support in their community and can involve almost anything, from access to arts and music lessons to debt and hou...

2. 

   28 Jan 2025

   The Mechanics of Conscious Experience (with Prof. Anil Seth)

   Professor Anil Seth explores the connection between mental health and consciousness, revealing how understanding predictive processing can illuminate subjective experiences and conditions like hallucinations in this interview.

3. 

   12 Jun 2023

   Psychological Treatments – Can We Get Routine Outcome Monitoring Right? (with Dr. Chris Evans)

   Dr. Chris Evans discusses routine outcome monitoring in psychological treatments, exploring how session-by-session monitoring can improve therapy and service outcomes in this interview.

4. 

   28 Mar 2023

   How the diagnostic system started to swell (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances)

   Psychiatrist Allen Frances discusses the over-medicalization of mental health diagnoses and the influence of vested interests, in an interview, on the diagnostic system he once helped shape.

5. 

   28 Feb 2023

   A Glimpse into VR Exposure Therapy (with Dr. Andrew Sherrill)

   Dr. Andrew Sherrill explores the use of virtual reality technology in exposure therapy, highlighting its increasing affordability and potential to revolutionize clinical practice in an interview.

6. 

   10 Jan 2023

   Should We Stop Prescribing Antidepressants for Depression? (with Prof. Joanna Moncrieff)

   Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses the efficacy of antidepressants and challenges the chemical imbalance theory of depression, offering a critical perspective on psychiatric medication in this interview.

7. 

   1 Dec 2022

   Psychedelics - Untangling the Potential and the Hype (with Dr. Sandeep Nayak)

   Dr. Sandeep Nayak explores psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy research, its potential for treating psychiatric disorders, and the ethical considerations in this rapidly evolving field in an interview.

8. 

   15 Nov 2022

   The Science of Personalizing Psychological Treatments (with Dr. John Norcross)

   Dr. John Norcross explores the science of personalizing psychological treatments, highlighting research-backed methods to boost effectiveness and reduce treatment dropout in this interview with the host.

9. 

   14 Jun 2022

   Can a Neural Network Perspective Bring Coherence to Psychotherapy Theory? (With Dr. Warren Tryon)

   Dr. Warren Tryon explores how cognitive neuroscience can unify disparate psychotherapy theories by focusing on the brain mechanisms driving psychological change in this interview.

10. 

    23 May 2022

    Understanding Goal Pursuit and Dysfunction in Mental Illness (with Dr. Colin DeYoung)

    Personality neuroscience researcher Dr. Colin DeYoung discusses his cybernetic theory of psychopathology and how it offers better ways forward in reforming the diagnostic system in this interview.

11. 

    11 May 2022

    The Elephant in the Clinic: The DSM has Fallen Behind. Here is How Psychiatric Diagnosis Might Work in the Future. (with Dr. Colin DeYoung)

    Dr. Colin DeYoung explores the limitations of current DSM and ICD diagnostic systems in mental health, advocating for future psychiatric diagnoses grounded in personality neuroscience research in this interview.

12. 

    12 Apr 2022

    Bruce Wampold - Moving Beyond Comparing Psychotherapies

    Bruce Wampold discusses moving beyond comparing psychotherapies and highlights his research contributions to psychotherapy as an Emeritus Professor in this interview.

Who has been a guest on What’s Next in Mental Health?

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Prof Anil Seth
• Dr Chris Evans
• Allen Frances
• Dr Andrew Sherrill
• Joanna Moncrieff

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 7 / 100

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Quality

15

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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