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The Psychocultural Podcast

Join Candida Yates in her new podcast, co-sponsored by the BPC. Psychocultural brings together voices from clinical practice, academia, media and the arts to explore the keywords and ideas shaping our world today - and the anxieties and fantasies that underlie them.

Guests Include:

Dr Jacob Johanssen

Emerita Professor Lynn Froggett

Callum Blades

Dr Aaron Balick

Dr Nicola Diamond

Dr Lita Crociani-Windland

Dr Noreen Giffney

Professor Caro Bainbridge

Dr Karen Cross

Dr Jenny Alexander

Professor Iain MacRury

Tom DeRose

Psychocultural: where culture meets the unconscious...

Through free-associative, accessible conversation, each episode takes up the cultural moments and concepts we all encounter but rarely pause to examine, from Identity Theft and Conspiracy to Manifesting, Cringe Culture, AI Intimacy and beyond.

This is the podcast for curious, culturally engaged minds and offers a distinctive psychodynamic lens on contemporary culture, politics and society. The podcast is co-sponsored by the British Psychoanalytic Council, Bournemouth University and The Psychocultural Agency.

Explore below and listen to each episode below as they’re released…

Psychocultural Podcast Trailer

Listen to the podcast series trailer to get an idea of what to expect when the podcast begins to be released in September 2026...
Listen to the trailer

Episode 1: Chatbots

Are chatbots a threat to meaningful human connection — or something more complex and interesting? In this episode of Psychocultural, Candida Yates is joined by Emerita Professor Lynn Froggett and Dr Jacob Johanssen to explore one of the most urgent and fascinating questions of our digital age.
Listen to Ep 1

Episode 2: Conspiracy

Why do conspiracy theories take hold and what do they reveal about the world we're living in? In this episode, Candida is joined by psychotherapist and digital culture scholar Dr Aaron Balick and doctoral researcher Callum Blades, who applies Kleinian psychoanalysis to understandings of the anti-vax movement, to explore one of the defining phenomena of our times.
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Episode 3: Manifesting

Why has "manifesting" captured the imagination of millions and what does it really reveal about us? In this episode of Psychocultural, host Candida Yates is joined by psychoanalytic psychotherapist and attachment specialist Dr Nicola Diamond to examine one of contemporary culture's most talked-about ideas.
Listen to Ep 3

Episode 4: Complicity

What does it really mean to be complicit? In this episode, Candida Yates is joined by psychosocial scholar Dr Lita Crociani-Windland and psychoanalytic psychotherapist Dr Noreen Giffney to explore complicity as a concept which is far richer and nuanced than its current usage often suggests.
Listen to Ep 4