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Raj Persaud in conversation - the podcasts

Dec 23, 2014

Will therapists be replaced by Virtual Reality Technology? Psychiatrist Raj Persaud talks to psychologists Wesley Turner and Leanne Casey from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia who have just published an analysis of how effective the latest Virtual Reality psychological treatments are.

 

Their study is entitled...


Dec 14, 2014

Most people tend to become compliant when ordered to do so by a police officer in a high-stakes type of predicament. But perhaps those suffering severe mental illnesses are more likely to be non-compliant - maybe due to decreased awareness of what is going on around them? Could this explain the seemingly apparent...


Dec 7, 2014

Raj Persaud discusses new research on the mortality of comedians with Dr. Gil Greengross an evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist at Concordia University in Montreal and formerly at the University of New Mexico. His interdisciplinary research bridges traditional fields of study such as psychology, anthropology...


Dec 5, 2014

Michael Schmidt is editor of a new book entitled: 'The Novel
A Biography' published by Harvard University Press.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.ph...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Novel-Bio...

Amongst the topics of conversation with psychiatrist Raj Persaud include: whether novelists are more prone to mental...


Nov 26, 2014

Cowards and Cowardice - Chris Walsh bravely discusses with Raj Persaud his new book Cowardice - a brief history - published by Princeton.

 

FROM PRINCETON PRESS WEBSITE

 

Coward. It’s a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards,...