Pat was joined in studio this morning by Professor Jim Lucey, MedicalDirector of St Patrick’s University Hospital and clinical Professor ofpsychiatry at Trinity College. Today we spoke about one method of recovery….learning new ways to overcome harmfulbehavior.
Professor Jim Lucey, Medical Director with St Patrick’s psychiatric hospital and Clinical Director of Psychiatry in Trinity College is with me, we have many times discussed what happens in therapy with Jim, but today he has read the best selling book “The Examined Life” written by the American psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, who has had patients on his couch for 25 years.
What is mental health and how can we achieve it? What is to be gained by leading a healthy mental life? These questions are often asked but are mostly ignored. At best they are responded to with truisms and pious advice to take more exercise or to drink less alcohol. Is there a more illuminating source of wisdom about mental health? Well Professor Jim Lucey Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College and Medical Director of St Patrick’s University Hospital is always thinking about how we can achieve better mental health and he was here to discuss some research that ...