Steve Peters: The Chimp Paradox for Doctors

Most of us have been told that a good doctor stays calm, keeps control, and doesn’t let emotion get in the way. But what if control isn’t something your brain can actually do? What if the anxiety, frustration and self-criticism you’ve spent years trying to suppress were never “you” in the first place? And what if the harder you push logic at them, the more they push back? In this conversation with Professor Steve Peters, consultant psychiatrist and author of The Chimp Paradox, we go deeper than the usual resilience chat. Steve has spent 30 years helping medical students and resident doctors understand their own minds, and he breaks down the neuroscience in a way a busy clinician can actually use: why willpower loses, and what works instead.