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Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri

Annalisa Barbieri

Have you ever wanted X-ray specs into human behaviour? Then this is the podcast for you. Listen to ‘brilliant, insightful and wise’ agony aunt and journalist Annalisa Barbieri, as she releas...

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How To Agree to Disagree (turning conflict into connection) with Gabrielle Rifkind

I am not a fan of the saying “let’s agree to disagree”, it can be so passive aggressive. But it’s the title of Gabrielle Rifkind’s new book...

42:48Jun 25, 2026

Who we are and who we have become in an age of technology and A.I with Prof Alessandra Lemma

This episode was not easy to name. The subject is highly topical, but the take on it is original and thought-provoking. Alessandra has writt...

47:38Jun 18, 2026

Loneliness with David Robson

In this episode I’m in conversation with David Robson. David is an award winning science writer and author of three books, one of which The...

38:19Jun 11, 2026

The Menstrual Brain with Dr Sophie Behrman

Dr Sophie Behrman is a is a general adult psychiatrist and works in a community mental health team in Oxford. She’s set up an NHS menopause...

39:00Jun 4, 2026

Dissociation with Dr Joanne Stubley

I first came across the concept of dissociation when I saw a film called Sybil starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward. It was about a youn...

58:38May 28, 2026

Why the arts are good for us with Prof Daisy Fancourt

Daisy Fancourt is a professor of psychobiology and epidemiology and head of the Social Biobehavioural research group at University College L...

37:13May 21, 2026

The Menopause Brain with Dr Sophie Behrman

I’m very pleased to see the menopause is being discussed more that it ever was. It does, after all, potentially affect a great many of us: d...

40:58Feb 12, 2026

Projection with psychotherapist Ryan Bennett-Clark

In the spring of 2020, I got a letter. It was, quite possibly, the worse letter I’ve ever got and I’ve had a few. It was full of bile and un...

46:06Feb 5, 2026

Overwhelmed with Claudia Hammond

Claudia Hammond is an award-winning author and broadcaster. Listeners may recognise her name and voice from her Radio Four programme All in...

41:36Jan 29, 2026

Facing Fate with Andrew Balfour

Hello and welcome to E3 of S11 of Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri. This one is a bit of a potentially scary subject: facing fate. But I...

38:35Jan 22, 2026

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs) with Professor Clare Mackay

Welcome back to Series 11 and episode 3. What are BFRBs? It's picking, biting or pulling, skin, nails or hair or Body Focused Repetitive Beh...

46:33Jan 15, 2026

The Good Enough Mother with Professor Alessandra Lemma

Here is episode 1 of Series 11 of my podcast: Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri. I’ve long been fascinated with the idea of good enough,...

38:42Jan 8, 2026

Anxiety in the Young with psychotherapist Alison Roy

One of the things I've noticed in recent years is the rise of anxiety in the young. What do I mean by young? Around secondary school age 11-...

46:55Oct 6, 2025

Finding Joy with Professor Morten Kringelbach

This episode is quite heavy on the neuroscience, which is one of my favourite subjects and it was recorded in person, in Oxford. I'm in conv...

1:01:09Sep 29, 2025

How to Make Friends with Chris Mills

As the years have gone by I've noticed a real shift in the sort of problems I get and friendship is a subject which is rearing its head agai...

50:36Sep 22, 2025

Siblings with Catherine Carr

The sibling podcast in series one remains the most listened to of all the Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri podcasts. So it seemed only r...

1:01:34Sep 15, 2025

Facing Adversity with Professor Lucy Easthope

In this episode Lucy and I discuss how to do hard things, such as face adversity. Much as we all like to believe in an Enid Blyton [insert w...

56:42Sep 8, 2025

Should I have a(nother) baby? with psychotherapist Julia Bueno

Welcome back! This is episode 1 of Series 10. Here I'm in conversation with UKCP registered psychotherapist and author Julia Bueno (who join...

41:33Sep 1, 2025

Womb Life. Life before we are born with psychotherapist Graham Music

This podcast was inspired by Graham Music's book of the same name, Womb Life which is the best book on pregnancy I've ever read. Graham and...

56:58May 15, 2025

The Parentified Child with psychotherapist Lisa Bruton

In this, the penultimate episode of Series 9, I talk to UKCP accredited psychotherapist Lisa Bruton who is also a guest tutor at the Univers...

36:29May 8, 2025