All In The Mind

A revisit of an episode exploring why athletes choke under pressure, featuring taekwondo Olympian Caroline Bartasek's experience at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

All in the Mind's 'Staying sane in space' connects Artemis 2 to the psychology of a Mars mission.

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Sana Kadar's All in the Mind mailbag brings back developmental pediatrician Dr Billy Garvey after his 2025 appearance, which Kadar says was one of Apple Podcasts' most shared episodes of 2025, to answer listener questions about sleep training, tantrums, child anxiety, and a five-year-old who said he wanted to die.

["All In The Mind's \"The psychology of masturbation\" opens with John Harvey Kellogg and the claim that bland Corn Flakes could reduce libido and masturbation.", "Host Sana Khadar talks with Esme Louise James, Dr Vijay Ramanathan, Matilda Brindle, and Dr Anne Jones about how masturbation moved from a social good to a source of shame.", "The episode cites the 1712 pamphlet \"Onea, the heinous sin of self-pollution,\" Victorian morality, and a Queensland Department of Health page titled \"Give Yourself a Hand\" to show how views changed.", "It also uses animal research, World Sexual Health Day, and a three-scenario therapy model to separate genuine conflict from guilt-driven distress."]

Health journalist and author Casey Barrows tells ABC Radio National's Sana Khadar about receiving the call that her father, Jack, had been diagnosed with mesothelioma, and about the two and a half years she spent as his primary carer until his death in November 2023.

Esther Perel recounts a couples-therapy session with a man and his AI girlfriend, calling it a threshold moment in her 40-year practice.

ABC Radio National's All In The Mind examines how the Challenger and Columbia disasters fit the idea of normalization of deviance.

Repeated daily hassles can contribute to chronic stress: Patricia Zarita Ona cites 1980s research linking them with fatigue, headaches, and gastrointestinal symptoms.

This episode explores how to understand and deal with difficult people by looking beyond labels like narcissist to more common factors driving their behavior.

This episode explores how the toxic tabloid and celebrity culture of the early 2000s shaped current conversations about mental health.

This episode explores the psychology behind arson, using the Black Saturday bushfires as a case study to examine motivations like pyromania and revenge.