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Ryan Kemp

Ryan Kemp

Clinical psychologist and Director of Therapies at Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Clinical Practice at Brunel University London, known for his expertise in addiction.

Sep 22, 2026

7:11
And has that phenomenological perspective changed over the years for you?
7:19
Yeah, I think so.
7:20
I, I, you know, I think when you first start working with addicts, it's quite hard work.
7:24
And, um, you know, I, I've often joked that it's not a career for someone who wants to be successful because most of the people you work with relapse.
7:35
In fact, relapse is by definition what addiction is.
7:40
So you're going to face the fact that you're gonna see someone you worked with a few months ago, and they made good progress, maybe they stopped using, et cetera, back in your waiting room just a few months later.
7:55
Now, at first, I took that quite personally.

12 MINS LATER

20:07
Mm-hmm

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