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Improving Your Mental Health | The Truth About...

Professor Tanya Byron and Alex Scott uncover the latest science on how to improve your mental health and wellbeing - and re...

Mental: A History of the Madhouse

Documentary telling the story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums and what it says about society's changing attitudes to mental illn...

OCD: A Monster in my Mind | Horizon

Horizon meets the people living with OCD, looks at the therapy available and asks what neuroscience can offer by way of a cure.

How Mad Are You? Part 1 | Horizon

Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been officially diagnosed as mentall...

Last Chance School | Kids on the Edge

An unprecedented number of children in the UK are being diagnosed with and treated for mental health disorders. This documentary follow...

Mental Health Special | Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

The team investigate the best way to beat stress, how sleep affects mental health and why laughing can be as good as exercise ...

Episode 1 | Extreme OCD Camp

Six young British people with OCD journey to the American wilderness for treatment. After bonding over their experiences, the group arrives in t...

Fish and Snakes | The Panic Room

Factual entertainment series about phobias and a radical way to overcome them. Gareth has a morbid fear of fish, while Ruth has a serious ph...

Social media and wellbeing | The Truth About...

The positive and negative impact of social media use on mental health and wellbeing.

Chatbots for mental health support | Science Cafe

Dr Mabrouka Abuhmida discusses how chatbots and AI can be used for mental health support, but how can they model the empath...

Head Case: Treat Yourself to Better Mental Health

The reality of living with depression, anorexia, anxiety, bipolar disorder and addiction is revealed through the eyes of th...

John Watson and Little Albert | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley discusses how John Watson performed one of the most famous and controversial experiments in psy...

The Voices in My Head

Documentary using audio reconstruction to take viewers into the world of three people who hear voices as a result of mental illness.

Treating phobias | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley revisits a patient who underwent systematic desensitisation for his phobia of dogs.

Historical treatments for mental health | Mental: A History of the Madhouse

A comparison of ECT and Lobotomy and acknowledgement of the inhumane treatment within asylums

How Mad Are You? Part 2 | Horizon

With five 'normal' volunteers and five who have been officially diagnosed as mentally ill, Horizon asks if you can tell who is who.

42500 | Science Cafe

Adam Walton looks at the work of the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, where scientists are exploring the question of whether genes affect m...

Black Schizophrenia | Horizon

A study, which claims that Afro-Caribbeans in UK are 10 times more likely to develop schizophrenia than others, is contested by other experts a...

Depression | Medicine Today

Today's program looks at depression and its treatment. With Dr James Willis, Dr Michael Pare & Dr Arthur Watts.

Diagnosing mental illness | The Trap

An introduction to the diagnosis of mental illness with links to the development of the DSM and the subjectivity found in Rosenhan's st...