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All In The Mind

ABC Australia

Why do people lie? Why do relationships fall apart? Can trauma change your brain? Every week on All in the Mind, award-winning journalist Sana Qadar explores the psychology behind the biggest questions in our lives — how we think, feel and behave. Featuring leading experts like Esther Perel, Billy Garvey and Ethan…

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All In The Mind

Daddy brain: how parenthood changes men

Friction-maxxing: does more effort = more value?

Mental health and the manosphere

'Task paralysis' and overcoming procrastination

What self-help advice is actually useful?

Is AI the end of creativity and cognition?

Trying to read more? Your brain will thank you

Hypochondria and cyberchondria: the many ways to worry about health

Burnout: the warning signs and how to stop it

When meditation goes wrong: part two

When meditation goes wrong: part one

Why do we crave closure?

Why should I spend time in nature?

Dark tourism, selfies and moral outrage

From gaming addiction to healthy gamer: Dr K's story

How can I become more securely attached?

Oppositional defiant disorder and bad behaviour in schools

We're all stressed. What should we do about it?

‘Should have been my birthright’ - the journey to reclaim a lost language

From death to divorce: getting through the worst losses of your life

Fame, isolation and terror: inside the mind of a lone mass killer

Emotionally immature parents and grandparents: what to do if you have them (or are one)

Handling emotionally immature parents, raising emotionally mature kids

How to catch a liar (it's harder than you think)

Ambiguous crimes and inattentional blindness: the science of eyewitness memory

Confessing to a crime you didn't commit

Can criminal profiling identify a killer?

Our millennia-long obsession with immortality

Pretty privilege, surgery stigma and the cosmetic procedure paradox

The psychology behind our moral outrage

Staying sane in space

Mind Hacks with Dr Billy Garvey: "being a bit kinder to myself"

Tantrums, sleep training and anxiety: Dr Billy Garvey answers your parenting questions

The psychology of masturbation

Mind Hacks: Casey Beros

Tough conversations and anticipatory grief: being a carer

Family estrangement and infidelity: Esther Perel answers your questions

Mind Hacks: Joel Pearson

Is AI making our brains lazier?

Mind Hacks: Esther Perel

Couples therapy with an AI partner? Esther Perel's just done it

Why do we choke under pressure?

Can 'normalisation of deviance' help to explain a catastrophe?

Got a question for Esther Perel?

The paradox of petty problems: Why small annoyances can snowball

Grief and guilt: losing a loved one to suicide

Driving me mad: why we get road rage

The cognitive distortions of a high achiever

Healing from self-hatred

The fight for focus in a world of distraction

Got the ick? Dating, disgust and evolutionary psychology

What to know about kids mental health

Difficult people and radical acceptance: answering your questions about tricky relationships

From prohibition to social media - what makes bans succeed ... or fail?

The music that saves us

If everything is traumatic, is anything traumatic? The power of labels

‘What if I’m a paedophile?’ The intrusive thoughts that haunted Uma

Consumer behaviour and the quest for cool

Narcissist, or just a pain? How to deal with difficult people

How borderline personality disorder makes it harder to hold down a job

From school avoidance to food anxieties: navigating neurodiverse parenting

Brain Rot: Meet the people who ditched their smartphones

Brain Rot: Internet addiction

Brain Rot: What is tech doing to your memory?

Brain Rot: Will AI turn us off human relationships?

Brain Rot: Is your phone destroying your attention span?

Why revenge feels good — and what it costs

Task paralysis and procrastination - why it's so hard to get sh*t done

Cruel intentions: how toxic tabloids and celebrity culture changed the way we talk about mental health

Is clutter making you feel bad?

Serial killers: answering your questions about how they think

Depersonalisation — when nothing feels real

Divination isn’t scientific, but can it ever be therapeutic?

Where have all the serial killers gone?

Kleptomania: when compulsive stealing takes over your life

Pyromania vs revenge – why do people light fires?

Munchausen by Proxy: when parents hurt their kids

INTRODUCING — Criminal Psychology

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