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:

Would I Lie to You? Part 2 of 2 (broadcast edition) and The Private Life of a Brain Surgeon (podcast & Radio Australia edition) Jul 10, 2010

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Many scientists distrust the traditional lie detectors, like the polygraph with its wires and electrodes stuck to the skin, and say they never reliably reveal a liar. But now companies are marketing voice stress analysers and even brain scanners to do 'truth verification'. BBC science journalist Roland Pease investigates whether the new technologies are any better than the old ones. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast and online edition is an alternative from our archives, The Private Life of a Brain Surgeon.

Would I Lie to You? Part 1 of 2 (broadcast edition) and When Good People Turn Bad (podcast and Radio Australia editions) Jul 03, 2010

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Science journalist Roland Pease investigates the eternal quest for an objective approach to spotting deception. For almost 100 years, law enforcement agencies have used the polygraph to find out whether suspects are lying or not. But is it a legitimate tool? For copyright reasons, this week's podcast and online edition is an alternative from our archives, When Good People Turn Bad: Philip Zimbardo in conversation

The Remarkable Story of HM: remembering the man without memory Jun 26, 2010

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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 with HM's legacy and his brain, which continues to offer remarkable insights into the machinations of human memory.

The Master and his Emissary: the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation. Jun 19, 2010

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Eminent psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist offers an ambitious, provocative thesis about how the brain's two hemispheres came to be, and construct the world. Today there's a power struggle being played out between the left and right brain that he argues is reshaping Western civilisation in disturbing ways.

Making sense of noise: Part 2 of 2 - In pursuit of silence Jun 12, 2010

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Join George Prochnick as he escapes the racket of New York City on a profound quest for the quiet. His book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, encounters the deaf architecture movement, surprises in the stillness of a Trappist monastery, and the Self unmasked by silence. Corinne Podger reports.

Making sense of noise: Part 1 of 2 - Back to school Jun 05, 2010

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The soundtrack to our lives seems to have got louder. Surviving the cacophony of city existence is hard enough, but what does all that racket do to the developing brain as it learns? Enter the Virtual Classroom to discover some unexpected lessons for contemporary schools. And next week, we're in pursuit of silence. Corinne Podger reports.

It's a Mindfield! All in the Mind at the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival May 29, 2010

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Is neuroscience the new philosophy? Danish science writer and neurobiologist Lone Frank thinks the radical self-knowledge it offers us will help us transcend human nature. From the stage of the Sydney Writers' Festival, she dons The God Helmet, encounters her chemical self, and hesitates before having a brain scan.

Whistleblowing and the psyche: an anthropological perspective! May 22, 2010

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Bluebird is the ABC's new alternate reality (AR) game where you unfold the plot online. At its heart is a young scientist turned whistleblower, determined to stop a maverick entrepreneur's plan to geoengineer the global climate. But whistleblowing comes with huge psychological risks. An anthropologist and a sociologist offer a powerful perspective on how the self and psyche can be shredded in science.

Ageing Positive: HIV, dementia and the brain May 15, 2010

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They're vanguards of the virus - the first generation of HIV positive people to live long lives with the help of modern anti-retroviral drugs. The early days saw countless die too young, their brains ravaged by AIDS-related dementia. But now evidence suggests HIV prematurely ages the brain, despite the drugs.

Is ignorance bliss? The getting of wisdom May 08, 2010

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Four wise souls consider the making of a wise mind. Does knowing more necessarily make you happier? Can ignorance be bliss? 'Lateral thinker' Edward de Bono, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, and author and counsellor Petrea King join Natasha Mitchell at the Happiness & Its Causes conference.

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