Past Programs
Doctors and Medical Professionals - 2004
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A Shrink's Story - Inside the Bipolar Experience
21/08/2004
This week on All in the Mind an exclusive story of one psychiatrist's 15 year battle with bipolar disorder, or manic depression. Once at the top of her profession, clinically and academically, what followed was a spiral into mania, promiscuity and profligacy and the deepest of depression. A profoundly personal and challenging insight into the debilitating condition, her story also sheds harsh light on how the psychiatric profession deals with illness in its own ranks. Join Natasha Mitchell for one woman's inside account, as both patient and practitioner.
Sick Doctors: Report from College of Psychiatrists conference
22/05/2004
At last week's annual conference of the country's peak body of psychiatry, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, participants were spilling out of the door of one crucial session..."Sick Doctors". Professor Carolyn Quadrio is vigilant about exposing professional sexual misconduct within her profession. Dr Jan McKenzie, on the Medical Disciplinary Tribunal for New Zealand, is partway through an unprecedented study interviewing NZ doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct with patients. They joined Natasha Mitchell at the conference in Christchurch.
Trauma and Transition: Mental Health in Iraq
01/05/2004
After three wars, the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, 13 years of UN sanctions, and the current volatile transition, Iraq is a country under psychological strain. One report suggests at least 50 per cent of Iraqis probably have post-traumatic stress disorder. But there are less than 100 psychiatrists, and no clinical psychologists across the population of 24 million - so who can they turn to for help? This week, mental health and Iraq, including a major study by Physicians for Human Rights documenting the shocking involvement of doctors in human rights abuses under the Ba'athist regime.
