Evolving Psychiatry

Evolutionary psychiatry offers evolutionary explanations for the range of mental health conditions identified by psychiatry today. The Evolving Psychiatry podcast provides interviews, insights and an introduction to evolutionary psychiatry, with guest appearances from leading academics and psychiatrists.

Evolving Psychiatry is a health podcast hosted by Adam Hunt, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Adam Hunt hosts Evolving Psychiatry, a health show with 52 episodes published.

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  Why Hadn't I Heard of This? | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry #62

  Jul 24, 202658 min

  Everyone's heard of evolutionary theory, but very few have heard of it being applied to mental health and disorder. Why? In this episode, Adam covers the scientific and structural reasons for this state of affairs.Adam Hunt, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Evolution, Mental Health and Behaviour lab at the University of Cambridge. He is also Founding Chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, an Executive Committee Member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Communications Chair for the International Society of Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, and host of the 'Evolving Psychiatry' podcast.This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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  Skeptic of Psychiatric Diagnoses | Sami Timimi | Evolving Psychiatry #61

  Jul 5, 20261h 26m

  Are mental disorders such as ADHD 'real'? Should we be using medication? Sami Timimi comes from a 'critical psychiatry' perspective which questions these fundamental assumptions in psychiatry.Dr Sami Timimi is a retired consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author. A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, he has been one of the UK’s most prominent voices in critical psychiatry, writing extensively on childhood, psychotherapy, psychiatric diagnosis, medicalisation, behavioural problems, and cross-cultural mental health. His books include Searching for Normal, Insane Medicine, Naughty Boys, and The Myth of Autism. His work challenges narrowly biomedical models of distress and argues for more contextual, relational, and culturally informed approaches to mental health care.This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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  Evolution in Therapy and Society | Daniel Glass & Niruban Balachandran | Evolving Psychiatry #60

  Jun 21, 20261h 11m

  Working out the evolved structure of the mind will have implications across therapy and society. Which directions are most promising? Daniel J. Glass, PhD, is a board-certified clinical psychologist whose clinical work focuses on anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, and evidence-based psychotherapies, including cognitive behavioural therapy, exposure-based approaches, and acceptance-based interventions. His academic interests centre on the application of evolutionary theory to clinical psychology, including how evolutionary perspectives may inform the understanding, classification, and treatment of mental disorders.Niruban Balachandran is co-leader of PsychTable, an open-science project dedicated to classifying and evaluating evidence for evolved psychological adaptations. His work focuses on organising claims about the evolved mind in a rigorous and transparent way, with relevance for psychology, public understanding, policy, and the broader behavioural sciences.Together, Daniel Glass and Niruban Balachandran bring complementary perspectives on the relationship between evolutionary theory and psychotherapy: one grounded in clinical practice, and the other in the systematic classification and evaluation of evolutionary psychological evidence.This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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  How to Become An Evolutionary Psychiatrist | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry #59

  Jun 14, 20261h 18m

  What paths to becoming an evolutionary psychiatrist exist? How could anyone train in this field? In this episode, Liam Callico interviews Adam Hunt on his history and the pathways into and forward for the field. Adam Hunt, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Evolution, Mental Health and Behaviour lab at the University of Cambridge. He is also Founding Chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, an Executive Committee Member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Communications Chair for the International Society of Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, and host of the 'Evolving Psychiatry' podcast. This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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  Sport's Appeal | Matt Butler & Henry O'Connell | Evolving Psychiatry #58

  Jun 7, 202659 minS5

  Sport, and particularly football, captures billions of people's support. Why are our psychologies so captivated by these games? And could they even be used for improving mental health?The guests today are co-authors on the paper "The people’s game: evolutionary perspectives on the behavioural neuroscience of football fandom".Henry O’Connell is a returning guest: he is a consultant psychiatrist and Clinical Director at HSE Portlaoise, Clinical Professor at the University of Limerick, founding chair of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland's Evolutionary Psychiatry SIG, and now Co-Chair of the WPA Section on Evolutionary Psychiatry. He is also author of Evolution and Psychiatry: Clinical Cases. Matt Butler is the lead author of the key paper of today's episode. He's a Wellcome Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow at King's College London and a specialist registrar in psychiatry at South London & Maudsley hospitals. His PhD is on psilocybin in functional neurological disorder.This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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