Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Alex Baldacchino
In this podcast, Professor Rab Houston speaks to Alexander Baldacchino, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Addictions, University of St Andrews and Clinical Lead and Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry with NHS Fife. This podcast will hopefully provide the right incentive for listeners to understand better the finer details pertinent to the topic of substance misuse disorder and dependence. Listeners will be taken through some of the relevant historical, clinical, epidemiological, humanistic and other cross cutting themes to allow a more positive formulation of what the problems caused or as a consequences of substance misuse can be crystallised without stigmatising the individual or population involved. The interview explores understandings and misunderstandings of substance misuse, and the possibilities for helping misusers against a background of rapid changes in society, medical provision, and the proliferation of substances.
History of Psychiatry Podcast Series
Rab Houston was born in Hamilton, Scotland, lived in India and Ghana and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Andrews University before spending six years at Cambridge University as a research student (Peterhouse) and research fellow (Clare College). He has worked at the University of St Andrews since 1983 and is Professor of Modern History, specialising in British social history. He is a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s national academy), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is married to a senior university manager and lives in Edinburgh. In his spare time he likes any form of active meditation.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/rabhouston.html
https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychhist/
- No. of episodes: 121
- Latest episode: 2021-12-06
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