Health Service Journal
Raj Persaud
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Raj Persaud on medicine and the media
26-May-2008
At the beginning of the year, the treatment of mood disorders made big news. 'Prozac does not work, say scientists', was the kind of headline we read. -
Raj Persaud on the art of seduction
21-Apr-2008
Giacomo Casanova is perhaps the most famous seducer in history who, it is said, lured well over 100 women into bed. Although this Italian-born libertine lived several centuries ago, his techniques of seduction could hold a valuable lesson for the NHS. -
Raj Persaud on getting blood out of a stone
17-Mar-2008
Management is all too often about persuasion; powerful managers are better at persuading those in the workplace to pursue helpful change, while less competent managers are not so effective at overcoming resistance. -
Raj Persaud on bearing bad news
4-Feb-2008
Delivering bad news can be even more stressful and upsetting than receiving it -
Raj Persaud on authoritarianism
7-Jan-2008
Where does excessively authoritarian leadership come from? This intriguing question was posed in a paper by Dr James Crouse and Dr Douglas Stalker in the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology. -
Raj Persaud on cognitive dissonance theory
20-Nov-2007
NHS managers should be aware of a famous theory in social psychology called cognitive dissonance. It has become one of the most dominant ways of accounting for many puzzling behavioural phenomena in the world of academic psychology, yet it remains relatively obscure outside the field. -
Raj Persaud on how cognitive dissonance affects managers
19-Nov-2007
For NHS managers it is important to get a handle on the famous social psychology theory of 'cognitive dissonance' -
Power games: what kind of manager are you?
16-Oct-2007
Getting what you want may not be as straightforward as it seems, writes Raj Persaud -
Raj Persaud on what motivates us
15-Oct-2007
The reasons for our actions may not be as straightforward as they seem, says Raj Persaud -
Raj Persaud on trade-offs in healthcare
11-Sep-2007
The concept of 'trade-offs' is well understood in health – benefits of drugs traded against side-effects, for example, but many find it harder to juggle the trade-offs of change, says Raj Persaud.At the heart of the clinical practice of medicine is the idea of a ‘trade-off’ – we prescribe a drug juggling the downside of the side-effects with the upside of the treatment benefits. -
In the minds of managers
1-Jan-2007
How do NHS leaders remain resilient in the face of mind-bending stress? Psychiatrist Raj Persaud talks with four top chief executives about the secrets behind their success -
Raj Persaud: Mind games
1-Jan-2007
If we get too good at explaining away our failures then maybe there is little motivation to succeed
