23 - Schizoid, Paranoid & Schizotypal Personality Disorders. The Odd & Eccentric Cluster.

This week we're back from our summer holiday & digging into personality disorders. Join us in the first episode of our mini series on personality disorders. We are starting off with Cluster A personality disorders, namely Schizoid, Paranoid and Schizotypal PDs. This cluster is known as the Odd & Eccentric cluster. We'll chat about the main features of each diagnosis, some theory, what it is like to work with clients who have traits or full blown PDs and the complexity of treatment. As always, we wrap up with things we came across: Amy talks about how a picture of a sun can make us tip more and Hunter is inspired by the Slow Burn podcast to talk about the Martha Mitchell effect.

Amy's articles/resources:

Paranoid Personality Disorder: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/pedi_2012_26_055

Cluster A personality disorders in childhood:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992453/

Clinician's Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders - Daniel Fox

Hunter's articles/resources:

Personality Disorders in Modern Life - Theodore Millon & Roger Davis

Things we came across:

Tipping: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11026416

Martha Mitchell Effect: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-16/edition-8/beliefs-about-delusions

Slow burn podcast: http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/watergate.html 

22 - Aviophobia (Fear of Flying): why are so many of us afraid of flying?

To kick off the new year, Hunter and Amy take a quick look at aviophobia. We talk about how a fear of flying develops and the way your sensitivity to body anxiety symptoms influences  fear. To wrap up, Hunter muses over why we (used to) send Christmas cards and Amy rants about the Tooth Fairy's inequitable behaviour. 

We are going to take a few weeks off at the start of January (2018) but will be back with new pods at the end of Jan so check your feed and make sure you follow us on twitter. 

Hunter's article:
Ways of acquiring flying phobia - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484616

Amy's article:
Anxiety sensitivity- 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49688562_The_moderational_role_of_anxiety_sensitivity_in_flight_phobia

Things we came across:
Christmas cards - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26666577
Tooth fairy - https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2017/207/11/tooth-fairy-guilty-favouritism

21 - All I want for Christmas...is subjective well-being & to be crowned king of the bon bons

This week, Two Shrinks Pod is getting ready for Christmas! Amy takes us through the role of cognitive development in believing Santa and how to guarantee the best chance of winning a Christmas cracker. Hunter talks about subjective well-being - what makes some of us feel better after Christmas and others worse? We finish off with two things we came across. This week it's the practice habits of Peppa Pig's Dr Brown Bear and a new diagnostic criteria. Do you have Bond Adequacy Disorder (BAD)?

Amy's articles:

Belief in Santa - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201414000720

Christmas cracker victory - https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2014/201/11/surprising-benefit-passive-aggressive-behaviour-christmas-parties-being-crowned

Hunter's article:

Subjective well-being at Christmas - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-015-9441-8 

Things we came across:

Dr Brown Bear - http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5397

Bond Adequacy Disorder - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26654618

20 - Ten things: Middle children, yoga or aerobics, partners look like your mum, Barbie dolls, cat personality, dancing, diagnosing Gollum, swearing, sleeping positions & city disorders.

20 - This pod is a 10 item Things We Came Across Special to celebrate our 20th episode (like what we did for the 10th episode - but with less Star Wars). We talk about 10 different and unusual psychology research papers. Hunter's papers run the gamete of asking whether middle children are socially more advanced, which parent physical characteristics do we find attractive in potential partners (creepy), discusses cat personality traits, what diagnosis Gollum from Lord of the Rings has (nerd alert), and what predicts couples initial sleeping positions. Meanwhile Amy tackles the topics of which type of exercise is best for mood (seeking confirmatory bias for yoga), the depressing research on what playing with Barbie does to girls career aspirations, why theory of mind and dancing are linked, why is it good to swear when socially excluded, and finishes with a discussion on disorders named after cities.  

Hunter's articles

Face preferences (Do I like my partner because he looks like my dad?): http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(15)00059-8/fulltext

Birth order and cooperativeness (do middle children rule?): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjdp.12180/full

What is Gollum's diagnosis : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535969

Cat personality: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716303308?via%3Dihub

Sleep positions (don't touch me! or lets cuddle): https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/32590

Amy's articles

Exercise (Amy attempts to show yoga is better than aerobics) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27514246

Barbie dolls and career aspirations in girls  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-014-0347-y

Dancing and theory of mind http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12314/abstract

Swearing, pain and social exclusion  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2264/abstract

Disorders named after cities http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0027773814Z.00000000087?journalCode=ynam20

19 - Do you worry in social situations? A look at social anxiety disorder

19 - This week we have an in-depth chat about social anxiety disorder - which is when people find social situations difficult and worrying, so much so that people avoid them. Social anxiety disorder is a really interesting problem that is surprisingly common. The discussion on this pod illustrates many key concepts in how psychologists understand and treat anxiety (and mood) problems. So it should be a good pod to listen to if you are generally interested in what psychologists do. We talk about social anxiety in adolescents, how it relates to feeling shame and being self-critical in adults, the relationship between anger suppression and social anxiety, and finish up talking about CBT and mindfulness as treatments for social anxiety. In Things We Came Across Hunter continues with his discussion about mortality rates in hospitals - this time asking the question what happens when cardiologist go to a conference, Amy ends by discussing magic and cognitive ability.  

Amy's articles:

Social adaptation in adolescence. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-011-9164-0

Social anxiety and anger suppression. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21636245

Hunter's articles: 

Social anxiety and shame proneness - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25196782

RCT CBT vs mindfulness - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796717301183?via%3Dihub

T.W.C.A.:

Mortality when cardiologists are at a conference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25531231

Magic tricks and cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351568/ 

18 - Lettuce talk about vegetarians and vegans

18 - This week, Two Shrinks Pod is going green with a chat about the psychological aspects of following a meat free diet. We talk about eating disorders, anxiety and how smarter kids tend to be vegetarians in adulthood. We also ponder whether eating meat is associated with masculinity and question how prejudiced Western culture is towards vegans and vegetarians. To wrap up, Amy blames Hunter for her current earworm and soothes herself with research about how other people experience songs stuck in their heads. Then Hunter talks us through the most dangerous month to visit a hospital in the US. 

Hunter's articles:

Bias towards vegetarians

Eating disorders

IQ in childhood

Amy's articles:

Stress and anxiety

Bias among vegans & vegetarians

Masculinity and meat-free diets

Things we came across:

Earworms - stuck song syndrome (Amy)

The July Effect (Hunter)