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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind

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Martin Sixsmith examines what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

Martin Sixsmith presents a history of psychology and seeks to understand what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind: Bedside Manners

21/05/2014

Bedside Manners

BBC Radio 4 Extra - In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind, Bedside Manners

Martin examines how thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our physical state.

Martin Sixsmith examines the ways in which thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our physical state. From May 2014.

In this programme, Martin Sixsmith examines the ways in which thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our physical state, and the efforts of doctors and nurses to deploy psychological levers in the fight for wellbeing. 

He discovers how medical students at Manchester University are being trained in better communication with patients and he looks at different ways of encouraging empathy in the next generation of doctors through poetry and music.

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A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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