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

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  1. The Happiness Project

    Martin looks at our understanding of what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

  2. The Sex Factor

    Martin looks at the public perception of psychology with the help of comedian Ruby Wax.

  3. Bedside Manners

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

  4. Power and Persuasion

    Martin Sixsmith looks at how psychology is used in shaping our behaviour.

  5. The Criminal Mind

    Martin investigates the criminal mind and how neuroscience is used in court.

  6. A Problem of Consciousness

    Examining the work of psychologists who believe consciousness is 'just an illusion'.

  7. Man, Machine and Memory

    Martin Sixsmith explores the way our brains perceive and process information.

  8. Mapping the Brain

    Martin Sixsmith examines the impact of neuroscience on the way we think, feel and act.

  9. DNA and Darwin

    How our DNA and the development of our brains inform who we are.

  10. The Stages of Life

    Martin Sixsmith looks at the stages of human development from childhood to old age.

  11. We Do What We're Told

    Martin Sixsmith looks at psychologists' attempts to explain the psychology of evil.

  12. War

    Martin Sixsmith looks at the ways in which war has influenced psychology.

  13. The Mind Observes the Mind

    Martin Sixsmith examines the evolution of psychology on both sides of the Atlantic.

  14. Brains and Brass Instruments

    Martin Sixsmith on how medical research helped identify different areas of the brain.

  15. In the Beginning

    Martin Sixsmith examines the origins of experimental psychology.

  16. Care in the Community

    Martin Sixsmith outlines the reforms that closed Britain's Victorian asylums.

  17. Sane in Insane Places

    Exploring the popularity of lobotomies during the middle of the 20th century.

  18. The Snake Pit

    Psychoses, neuroses and their manifestation in popular culture.

  19. The Cuckoo's Nest

    How doctors took over the treatment of the mentally ill.

  20. Lock 'Em Up

    Martin Sixsmith traces the origins of the asylum movement.

  22. Talking Cures?

    Martin Sixsmith considers therapies that combined psychoanalysis and behaviourism.

  23. Pavlov's Bell

    Martin Sixsmith explores the development of an alternative to the Freudian way of thinking

  24. It's All about Sex

    Martin Sixsmith examines Sigmund Freud's legacy.

  25. The Freudian Age

    Martin Sixsmith visits Sigmund Freud's apartments and Europe's oldest mental asylum.

  26. High Anxieties

    Martin Sixsmith examines the government's plan for a national 'happiness index'.