Mindfulness and the brain
In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundl...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsEducation
The New Psychology of Depression
We live in a world filled with material wealth, live longer and healthier lives, and yet anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and depression have never been more common. What are the driving forces...
Episodes
6 episodesMindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The ev...
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression
Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work?
Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help?
Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies...
How is depression treated?
Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong....
What is depression?
Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many form...