Is Psychiatry Working?

Episode

Title

First
Broadcast

Repeated

Comments

Jade And Postpartum Psychosis

20240716

20240717 (R4)

In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now?

In this episode, we navigate the harrowing experience of postpartum psychosis with Jade. We hear how the mother and baby unit model, founded in the UK, provides innovative and holistic ways of looking after mother, baby and the whole network.

How can we best treat postpartum psychosis?

What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?

Rai And Schizophrenia

20240709

20240710 (R4)

With the help of Rai, who has a schizophrenia diagnosis, we look at the way the Hearing Voices Network is changing the view psychiatry has of auditory hallucinations. And we explore how new talking therapies could help people deal with sinister voices and paranoia.

Details of organisations offering information and support with mental health or self-harm are available at BBC.co.uk/actionline

How can we better understand and live with voice hearing?

What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?

Crisis

20230120

20230123 (R4)
20230807 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working. In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this first episode they look at how psychiatry responds to those in crisis.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

Is emergency care in psychiatry working?

Detention

20230127

20230130 (R4)
20230814 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider detention under the mental health act, travelling to locked wards in Liverpool, hearing from former patients and clinicians, and asking if detention can ever be avoided.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close and Lucinda Borrell

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

Is the system for detention in psychiatric care working?

Diagnosis

20230203

20230206 (R4)
20230821 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

What is the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry?

Medication

20230210

20230213 (R4)
20230828 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, with the help of patients and clinicians, they consider medication.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

Medication: What do we know about psychiatric drugs?

Therapy

20230217

20230220 (R4)
20230904 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider the different forms and aims of therapy.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

Healing And Recovery

20230224

20230227 (R4)
20230911 (R4)

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they look at healing and recovery.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm

Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode

Producer: Emma Close

Assistant Producer: Lucinda Borrell

Editor: Clare Fordham

Sound Mix: James Beard

Healing and recovery: the ways forward.

Anxiety

20230515

20230519 (R4)

In a special episode to mark mental health awareness week, writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode consider the purpose of anxiety, and how it can manifest in different ways. They look at where it comes from, and hear from firefighter Jonny about his journey with panic attacks and his techniques for coping with them.

Anxiety: why do we have it, and how can we control it?

Live From Hay Festival

20230912

A special edition of the series from Hay Festival.

Ocd And Dom

20240625

20240626 (R4)

In this episode, Dom helps us to better understand what it's really like to live with debilitating OCD. We investigate first line treatments for the disorder – including SSRIs and exposure therapy as well as specialist inpatient services and innovations in neurosurgery.

How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder?

How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder? Dom's story of hope and recovery.

Depression And Emily

20240702

20240703 (R4)

In this episode, Emily helps us to understand what's at stake for those who live with treatment resistant depression. We look at how the condition may be alleviated through psychedelics and ketamine therapy.

How can we combat treatment resistant depression?

Rai And Schizophrenia

20240709

20240710 (R4)

How can we better understand and live with voice hearing?

Jade And Postpartum Psychosis

20240716

20240717 (R4)

How can we best treat postpartum psychosis?

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
	Jade And Postpartum Psychosis	20240716	20240717 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? In this episode, we navigate the harrowing experience of postpartum psychosis with Jade. We hear how the mother and baby unit model, founded in the UK, provides innovative and holistic ways of looking after mother, baby and the whole network. How can we best treat postpartum psychosis? What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?
	Rai And Schizophrenia	20240709	20240710 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? With the help of Rai, who has a schizophrenia diagnosis, we look at the way the Hearing Voices Network is changing the view psychiatry has of auditory hallucinations. And we explore how new talking therapies could help people deal with sinister voices and paranoia. Details of organisations offering information and support with mental health or self-harm are available at BBC.co.uk/actionline How can we better understand and live with voice hearing? What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?
01	Crisis	20230120	20230123 (R4) 20230807 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working. In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this first episode they look at how psychiatry responds to those in crisis. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard Is emergency care in psychiatry working?
02	Detention	20230127	20230130 (R4) 20230814 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider detention under the mental health act, travelling to locked wards in Liverpool, hearing from former patients and clinicians, and asking if detention can ever be avoided. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close and Lucinda Borrell Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard Is the system for detention in psychiatric care working?
03	Diagnosis	20230203	20230206 (R4) 20230821 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard What is the role and place of diagnosis in psychiatry?
04	Medication	20230210	20230213 (R4) 20230828 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, with the help of patients and clinicians, they consider medication. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard Medication: What do we know about psychiatric drugs?
05	Therapy	20230217	20230220 (R4) 20230904 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider the different forms and aims of therapy. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard
06	Healing And Recovery	20230224	20230227 (R4) 20230911 (R4)	Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they look at healing and recovery. If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at BBC Action Line support: Mental health & self-harm: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode Producer: Emma Close Assistant Producer: Lucinda Borrell Editor: Clare Fordham Sound Mix: James Beard Healing and recovery: the ways forward.
07	Anxiety	20230515	20230519 (R4)	In a special episode to mark mental health awareness week, writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode consider the purpose of anxiety, and how it can manifest in different ways. They look at where it comes from, and hear from firefighter Jonny about his journey with panic attacks and his techniques for coping with them. Anxiety: why do we have it, and how can we control it?
08	Live From Hay Festival	20230912		A special edition of the series from Hay Festival.
09	Ocd And Dom	20240625	20240626 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? In this episode, Dom helps us to better understand what it's really like to live with debilitating OCD. We investigate first line treatments for the disorder – including SSRIs and exposure therapy as well as specialist inpatient services and innovations in neurosurgery. How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder? How can we best treat obsessive-compulsive disorder? Dom's story of hope and recovery.
10	Depression And Emily	20240702	20240703 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? In this episode, Emily helps us to understand what's at stake for those who live with treatment resistant depression. We look at how the condition may be alleviated through psychedelics and ketamine therapy. How can we combat treatment resistant depression?
11	Rai And Schizophrenia	20240709	20240710 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? With the help of Rai, who has a schizophrenia diagnosis, we look at the way the Hearing Voices Network is changing the view psychiatry has of auditory hallucinations. And we explore how new talking therapies could help people deal with sinister voices and paranoia. How can we better understand and live with voice hearing?
12	Jade And Postpartum Psychosis	20240716	20240717 (R4)	In this new series of Is Psychiatry Working, writer Horatio Clare and his co-host, psychiatrist Professor Femi Oyebode focus on some of the most successful ways of treating mental health conditions – both the established and the more experimental. The world of mental illness, what it is and how we understand it, the embattled position of psychiatry and its patients was the matter of the first series, explored through the story of Horatio's own breakdown. The landscape travelled – both in terms of access to good mental health care, and psychiatry's progress - was quite bleak. Now, in the spirit of hopefulness, Femi and Horatio explore a new and important question - what is working in psychiatry now? In this episode, we navigate the harrowing experience of postpartum psychosis with Jade. We hear how the mother and baby unit model, founded in the UK, provides innovative and holistic ways of looking after mother, baby and the whole network. How can we best treat postpartum psychosis?