The Therapycast
In this episode, Peter Mabbutt and Charles Caruana discuss the role hypnotherapy has in treating addiction. They also explore bereavement, end of life and ADHD – the relevance of this to addiction is explained in the podcast. They also give an overview of the Addictive Behaviours and Psychological Pain course that they run as part of the LSCCH-LCCH Asia Group. For more information: or
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In this show, Peter Mabbutt talks to Dr Daniel Radesca about hypnotherapy and its use in palliative care. They also explore hypnotherapy from a South American perspective. Conference Your Mind Matters: Revolutionising Healthcare 11th and 12th June 2022 https://www.lscch.co.uk/event-details/your-mind-matters-revolutionising-healthcare Music This Dream I Had by Pierce Murphy https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierce_Murphy/the-joke-isnt-funny-but-it-goes-like-this/this-dream-i-had/
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In the latest show, Peter Mabbutt talks to comedienne and counsellor Sheila McMahon. They explore how she brings humour into therapy and therapy into humour, her own journey with mental health issues, balancing her comedy persona with her counselling persona, people’s attitudes towards death and dying before existentially moving on to talk about the Oscars. Sheila’s YouTube channel can be found at: And her website can be found at: Music Free to be Me by Sheila McMahon – sung live for the show
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In the latest show Peter Mabbutt talks to Richard Hill and Matt Dalitz about their new book The Practioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy. You may pick up that Peter likes the book alot... You can get the book from the Norton site: You can listen to The Science of Psychotherapy podcast: Music M33 Project with a track called FolkPorts
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In the latest Therapycast Peter Mabbutt talks to Jonathan Kattenberg about his unique approach to therapy that involves hill and mountain walking combined with psychotherapy. You can contact Jonathan at Music Maarten Shellekens with a track called The Little Match Girl, featuring Enlia https://freemusicarchive.org/music/maarten-schellekens/ballads/the-little-match-girl-ft-enlia
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In the latest Therapycast Peter Mabbutt talks to Caroline Dyson about her work with children within the school environment using hypnotherapy, EMDR and a wide range of other therapeutic approaches. We also share her skill as an accomplished musician as her band Carrick plays us out with the track God Knows Why from their forthcoming second album Ghosts in the Lens. To view Carrick’s demo video follow this link:
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In the latest Therapycast we talk to John-Paul Higgerson about his personal journey managing the autoimmune disease, myositis.
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In the latest Therapycast Peter Mabbutt brings you an unashamedly blatant plug for our next conference that is being held on the 20th and 21st of November 2021 by letting some of the speakers introduce themselves and the subject of their individual talks.
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In the latest Therapycast, Dr Thema Majid and Peter Mabbutt interview Marine Havell about her journey with long COVID. We hear from Dr Noelia Leite about grieving for the elderly and Dr Deva Mohamed, President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Communications and Hypnosis, and Peter Mabbutt bring the June conference to a close with their musings on its success and its future.
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In this episode of the Therapycast we bring you an interesting mix that goes from the humorous with Bill Frost’s now legendary talk on the perils and pitfalls, and of course the joys of working online using services such as Zoom or Teams, to the serious subject of empathy as Gavin Emmerson talks about the importance of encouraging greater empathy and compassion in adapting to the pandemic and beyond.
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Music
A Strong Will is Needed by Derek Clegg
http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=a+strong+will+is+needed
DumTeeDum Podcast
Dum Tee Dum can be found on iTunes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dumteedum-a-show-about-the-bbcs-the-archers/id858767884
Their website is www.dumteedum.com
Detecting risk of depression
Halldorsdottir, T., Piechaczek, C., Soares de Matos, A. P., Czamara, D., Pehl, V., Wagenbuechler, P., ... & Greimel, E. (2019). Polygenic Risk: Predicting Depression Outcomes in Clinical and Epidemiological Cohorts of Youths. American Journal of Psychiatry, appi-ajp.
Brain Insulin Resistance and Depression
- Bădescu S, Tătaru C, Kobylinska L, et al.The association between diabetes mellitus and depression. J Med Life. 2016;9(2):120-125.
- Hamer J, Testani D, Mansur R, Lee Y, Subramaniapillai M, McIntyre R.Brain insulin resistance: a treatment target for cognitive impairment and anhedonia in depression. Exp Neurol. 2019;315:1-8.
- Lyra e Silva NM, Lam MP, Soares CN, Munoz DP, Milev R, De Felice FG.Insulin resistance as a shared pathogenic mechanism between depression and type 2 diabetes. Front Psychiatry. 2019;10:57.
- Arnold SE, Arvanitakis Z, Macauley-Rambach SL.Brain insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes and alzheimer disease: concepts and conundrums. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018;14(3):168-181.
- Sripetchwandee J, Chattipakorn N, Chattipakorn SC.Links between obesity-induced brain insulin resistance, brain mitochondrial dysfunction, and dementia. Front Endocrin (Lausanne).2018;9:496.
- Kullmann S, Heni M, Hallschmid M, Fritsche A, Preissl H, Häring HU.Brain insulin resistance at the crossroads of metabolic and cognitive disorders in humans. Physiol Rev. 2016;96(4):1169-1209.
- Singh MK, Leslie SM, Packer MM.Brain and behavioral correlates of insulin resistance in youth with depression and obesity. Horm Behav. 2019;108:73-83.
Meta Analysis for Depression and Hypnosis
Milling, L. S., Valentine, K. E., McCarley, H. S., & LoStimolo, L. M. (2018). A Meta-Analysis of Hypnotic Interventions for Depression Symptoms: High Hopes for Hypnosis?. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 61(3), 227-243.