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Psychologically Speaking

A quick way of defining popular terms

World Service,10 episodes

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Intelligence
The capacity to aquire knowledge. Can you define yourself as intelligent?
15 Jun 1995,4 mins
Psychology
Clarifying ambiguous expressions about the mind
15 Jun 1995,4 mins
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, are you using it in the wrong context?
15 Jun 1995,4 mins
Nervous Breakdown
First broadcast in 1995. A nervous breakdown is combination of depression and anxiety
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Personality
Myth buster: you can't divide people up into completely distinct types
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Insight
Understanding how our thought processes work
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Depression
Are the physical changes the cause or the result of the depression?
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Dementia
Dementia, the progressive loss of cognitive function.
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Ego
What are the characteristics of the egocentric and how has the definition changed?
22 Jun 1995,4 mins
Neurosis
The essence of neurosis, is an irrational connection between cause and effect
22 Jun 1995,4 mins