The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
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Learn something new about the mind every week - With in-depth conversations at the intersection of psychiatry, psychotherapy, self-development, spirituality and the philosophy of mental health.
Featuring experts from around the world, leading clinicians and academics, published authors, and people with lived experience, we aim to make complex ideas in the mental health space accessible and engaging.
This podcast is designed for a broad audience including professionals, those who suffer with mental health difficulties, more common psychological problems, or those who just want to learn more about themselves and others.
Hosted by psychiatrists Dr. Alex Curmi, Dr. Anya Borissova & Dr. Rebecca Wilkinson.
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The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Interview #29: Changing your Perspective to Change your Life with The Speakmans
Nik and Eva Speakman are British therapists and life coaches. They have studied and worked together since 1992 sharing a passion to help people lead happier and less inhibited lives. They have formulated their own psychotherapeutic interventions including (among others) Schema Conditioning Psychotherapy, which are now also the subject of scientific research. They are resident therapists on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ for over a decade and have had their own shows, one of which, ‘The Speakmans’, also aired on ITV.
Liv Speakman is a psychology and neuroscience graduate from Oxford University working with Nik and Eva on research into the Speakmans work at Utrecht university in the Netherlands.
In this episode we discuss phobias and fears, Nik and Eva's journey to becoming therapists, changing your perspective on reality, remain open-minded to new interventions, the importance of scientific research in psychotherapy and many other topics. In addition - Rebecca gets free therapy and changes her mind about pigeons. It was wild.
Studies relating to the Speakmans work can be found here:
Studies 1 & 2
Published November 2018 – Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329229873_Effects_of_Visual_Schema_Displacement_Therapy_VSDT_an_abbreviated_EMDR_protocol_and_a_control_condition_on_emotionality_and_vividness_of_aversive_memories_Two_critical_analogue_studies
Study 3
Published 9 April 2021 – European Journal of Psychotraumataology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2021.1883924
Books mentioned in this podcast:
Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz M.D. (1960)
Interviewed by Dr. Rebecca Wilkinson with Dr. Alex Curmi and Dr. Anya Borissova
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