Empowering Minds

Mental Health Europe

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Empowering Minds is a podcast by Mental Health Europe featuring conversations with mental health experts, psychologists and psychiatrists, practitioners and people with lived experience. Mental health is approached from an intersectional perspective, addressing the stigma around this topic and empowering the listeners on their mental health journey.

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A trained clown enters a crisis zone, and your definition of mental health care gets wider.

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  • to weigh psychedelic therapy's possibilities without being sold a magic pill
  • to consider how your surroundings and relationships shape distress, alongside medical treatment
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Are Psychedelics the New Frontier in Mental Health? | Episode 11

A careful look at psychedelic treatment that keeps its promise, limits, and risks in view.

Empowering Minds treats psychedelics and mental health with restraint, asking whether they are a genuine frontier or just being cast as one. It keeps the Australian medicine regulator's July 1, 2023 decision in view, while staying grounded in what the evidence can support for…

The Psychosocial Model of Mental Health | Episode 10

A clear, rights-minded case for seeing mental health as social as well as biomedical.

This episode presents mental health as shaped by employment, isolation, policy, and the conditions people live in, with Bob Grove and Fatima Awil making the psychosocial model easy to follow.

The art of clowning, empowerment, and mental health

Clowning is treated here as trained care work, not comic relief.

Red Noses International is framed as care work at the point where arts and health meet. Natalie brings that frame into focus through more than 20 years with the organization, moving from intern to CEO, while the work centers trained professional clown artists sent into places…

Data, Digital Rights & Mental Health

A policy-minded look at digital rights, opaque data flows, and healthier platform design.

Empowering Minds centers a policy conversation on digital rights, data use, and a healthier digital environment. Ryan Temara, a policy officer working on digitalization and health at MetaHalf Europe, makes a steady case that everyday conveniences such as recommendations and…

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Episodes

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    The Psychosocial Model of Mental Health | Episode 10

    Hidden gem

    Empowering Minds episode 10 centers on Mental Health Europe's push from a biomedical model toward a psychosocial approach, with Margie introducing experts Bob Grove and Fatima Awil.

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    Data, Digital Rights & Mental Health

    Hidden gem

    Policy officer Ryan Temara from Mental Health Europe discusses how digital platforms exploit user data, the mental health impacts of addictive design, and the need for transparency and accountability in tech regulation.

    ·17m·1 clip
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    Are Psychedelics the New Frontier in Mental Health? | Episode 11

    This episode explores the potential and pitfalls of using psychedelics in mental health, featuring experts Dr.

    ·37m·3 clips
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    Mental Health Europe: Who, What, How | Episode 9

    This episode introduces Mental Health Europe, covering its mission, team roles, and key initiatives like the psychosocial model and European Mental Health Week.

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    The art of clowning, empowerment, and mental health

    Hidden gem

    Natalie, CEO of Red Noses International, explains how a clowning organization works at the intersection of arts, health, and mental health, including missions to Egypt with displaced people from Sudan and Gaza.

    ·23m·1 clip
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    Migrants, Refugees & Mental Health | Episode 8

    Dec 16, 2022·17m
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    Serotonin & Depression: Explaining the Chemical Imbalance Theory | Episode 7

    Sep 20, 2022·36m
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    Environment and mental health | Episode 6

    Cassie Murthy separates spending time in nature from being connected to nature, and ties the second to pro-environmental behavior.

    Apr 22, 2021·37m·2 clips
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    The history of psychiatric diagnosis | Episode 5

    Hidden gem

    Lia Lebaki argues a diagnosis "is not a word like any other" because it can change a person's legal status.

    Oct 20, 2020·38m·2 clips
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    What is normal? | Episode 4

    May 24, 2020·35m
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    Coercive measures in mental health | Episode 3

    Apr 8, 2019·35m
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    Transparency: Doctors and the Pharma Industry | Episode 2

    Dec 13, 2018·19m
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    Mental health and young people | Episode 1

    Jun 27, 2018·30m