All In The Mind

Why do people lie? Why do relationships fall apart? Can trauma change your brain?

Every week on All in the Mind, award-winning journalist Sana Qadar explores the psychology behind the biggest questions in our lives — how we think, feel and behave.

Featuring leading experts like Esther Perel, Billy Garvey and Ethan Kross, you’ll hear personal stories and practical insights that will leave you thinking long after the podcast ends.

Whether it’s debunking pop psychology trends or translating the latest neuroscience research, more than 100,000 listeners join Sana each month to learn the best strategies for surviving life with your mental health intact.

All in the Mind is created for ABC’s Radio National by specialist journalists and reporters at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and was awarded Best Health and Wellness podcast at the 2026 Australian Audio Awards

Latest Episodes:

No Feeling Is Final — 05 | Emotionally Deluxe Mar 14, 2021

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How to collect your tears, the existential angst of the shampoo aisle, and the boy returns.

No Feeling Is Final — 04 | 60,000 Thoughts Mar 07, 2021

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We have 60,000 thoughts each day. I will try to track every single one of them.

No Feeling Is Final — 03 | A Good Patient Feb 28, 2021

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There are no good snack options in psych hospital. And it’s really hard to not look crazy.

No Feeling Is Final — 02 | The Vast Wasteland Feb 21, 2021

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Hunting for a psychiatrist is a lot like hunting for 'The One'. Only much more expensive and with a tiny dating pool.

No Feeling Is Final — 01 | The Voice Feb 14, 2021

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We all have that voice in our head. The one that is brutally honest. It’s a good thing, right? Except when it really isn’t.

Lived experience, trauma and the 'missing middle': Victoria's mental health royal commission Feb 07, 2021

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On All in the Mind, we look at the problems in Victoria's mental health system and what needs to change going forward.

Music of memory Jan 31, 2021

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Our relationship with music begins at birth, if not before, and plays a role in the formation of our identity when we are young. Now a heart-warming movement called Music & Memory is creating personalised music playlists for residents with dementia in nursing homes—who use their mobile device to hear it.

The mysterious corpus callosum: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs Jan 24, 2021

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The corpus callosum links one side of our brain to the other. It’s not essential for survival, but in some people it’s missing or malformed, causing quite mild to extreme disabilities. The good news is that research is now revealing that it holds intriguing secrets about brain plasticity.

This program was first broadcast in May 2016.

Girls and Autism: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs Jan 17, 2021

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Most people tend to think of autism as a male disorder, and the character in the film Rain Man often comes to mind. But emerging research shows that girls often have different symptoms which cause them to slip through the net.

This program was originally broadcast in June 2015,

Dissociation and coping with trauma: One of Lynne Malcolm's favourite programs Jan 10, 2021

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Warning: some listeners may find aspects of this program confronting.

The compelling account of a woman who lived with dissociative identity disorder—and how she eventually became integrated.