Lucy Foulkes on Defining and Dealing with Mental Illness
Keen On
English - June 23, 2021 18:32 - 37 minutes - ★★★★ - 72 ratingsNews Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lucy Foulkes, the author of "Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really is and What it isn't", to discuss how we distinguish between severe suffering and actual illness.
Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist with expertise in mental health and social development, particularly in adolescence. She completed an MRC-funded PhD in psychology at UCL (2011-2015) and a postdoc at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2015-2017). She then worked as a lecturer in psychology and education at the University of York (2018-2020) and as an editor for the popular psychology magazine Psyche (2020-2021). She is now an honorary lecturer at UCL.
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In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lucy Foulkes, the author of "Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really is and What it isn't", to discuss how we distinguish between severe suffering and actual illness.
Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist with expertise in mental health and social development, particularly in adolescence. She completed an MRC-funded PhD in psychology at UCL (2011-2015) and a postdoc at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2015-2017). She then worked as a lecturer in psychology and education at the University of York (2018-2020) and as an editor for the popular psychology magazine Psyche (2020-2021). She is now an honorary lecturer at UCL.
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