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:

Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 2 - Mirror neurons, our intersubjective minds and the limits of compassion Jul 02, 2011

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Marco Iacoboni studies mirror neurons -- what some dub 'Dalai Lama neurons' -- and believes they 'force us to rethink the deepest aspects of our very selves'. Psychologist Paul Ekman redefined the scientific study of emotion. They join Natasha Mitchell in dialogue with the Dalai Lama.

Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 1 - happiness, sadness and everything in between Jun 25, 2011

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Is sadness important for happiness? How does compassion become a mental habit? From the Happiness and Its Causes Conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins Natasha Mitchell with a panel of top scientific minds.

Feature Series (Part 3 of 3) - Getting geeky at Gallaudet University Jun 18, 2011

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This is the century for visual communication: video conferencing, YouTube, smart phones -- and deaf people are at the forefront. We're getting geeky at the world's first and only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC. Scientific surprises too: could the genes that contribute to deafness have paradoxical benefits?

Feature Series (Part 2 of 3) - Encountering the aesthetics of deafness: deaf space, architecture and poetry Jun 11, 2011

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At the world's only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a radical rethink of what it means to occupy and design space is underway: it's called deaf architecture. From deaf space to sign language poetry, immerse yourself in a deaf sensory aesthetic, with surprising discoveries for us all.

Feature Series (Part 1 of 3) - Gallaudet University: the world's only deaf university Jun 04, 2011

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Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world's first and only university for deaf students. Abraham Lincoln signed it into existence and its impact on the global deaf community has been enormous. From the radicalisation of deaf culture to the redefining 'Deaf President Now' protests of 1988, from the design ethos of deaf architecture to the aesthetics of sign language poetry and new bilingual pedagogies—join Natasha Mitchell on campus.

Live from TEDxSydney (Saturday edition) and The Remarkable Story of H.M (Repeat - Monday and podcast editions) May 28, 2011

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ABC Radio National showcases a smorgasbord of brains, coming live from TEDxSydney this weekend. All in the Mind's Monday and podcast edition features the story of a H.M. Afflicted with amnesia after brain surgery, he became a man who lived in the perpetual present, and the most famous patient of 20th century neuroscience. Join Natasha Mitchell for a powerful posthumous encounter.

Live from the Sydney Writers' Festival (Saturday)...and Mothers and Others! (Monday & podcast) May 21, 2011

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Join us for a super smorgasbord of books and brains! Natasha Mitchell hosts live from the Sydney Writers' Festival for Radio National's special weekend broadcast from the harbour's edge. On Monday's edition and the podcast, acclaimed sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy with a provocative take on the evolution of our big brains.

Next to Normal: a rock musical with a difference May 14, 2011

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A rock musical about mental illness? The Pulitzer Prize winning, Broadway blockbuster Next to Normal is now being staged in Australia by the Melbourne Theatre Company. Living with bipolar disorder can be a dramatic experience, but how does it translate into a night at the theatre? Meet the director, lead, and two women living with Bipolar who don theatre critic hats for All in the Mind.

Neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova: Narrating dislocated minds May 07, 2011

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Alice is just 50 and at the peak of her Harvard career when Alzheimer's arrives. High-flyer mother Sarah is driving to work when an accident and brain damage erases the left side of her world. Bestselling neuroscientist-turned-novelist Lisa Genova has a knack of getting inside her characters' dislocated minds and lives.

Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living Apr 30, 2011

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Celebrated fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett has mined the terrain of his imagination more than most. What shaped this passionately adventurous mind, and now, how is it being reshaped by early-onset Alzheimer's? Next week, a neuroscientist novelist's poignant exploration of the disease.

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