MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
Hello! My name is Dr Aalap Asurlekar, and I am a psychiatry trainee in the UK. I created MRCPsych on the Go to make revision for the MRCPsych exams easier to fit around busy clinical work.
This podcast is designed for psychiatry trainees preparing for Paper A, B, CASC but also, medical students. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics and explains them in clear, structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts.
Topics range from psychopathology, psychopharmacology, neuroscience, sociology, behavioral science, psychological therapies to clinical assessment. Episodes include exam style questions and clinical scenarios to support active recall and exam preparation.
The aim is to provide focused, high yield psychiatry revision you can listen to during commutes, walks or between shifts.
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MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials
6.How We Make Sense of the World: Gestalt Psychology and Perceptual Organisation
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Why does your brain see a face in a cloud or a complete circle when part of it is missing? This is Gestalt psychology at work, and it tells us something fundamental about how the mind organises the world around us.
In this episode, we explore the principles that govern how the brain groups sensory information into meaningful patterns. We cover figure-ground perception, similarity, proximity, symmetry, continuity and closure, and explain why these principles matter in both cognitive psychology and psychiatric practice.
Ideal for MRCPsych Part A revision, psychology students and anyone curious about how the brain constructs reality. Aligned with the Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych Part A syllabus, paragraph 1.1.2.