Episode 7: "I Feel Unsafe" - Victimisation and Fragilisation
In this episode, Rachael takes on a number of important questions including when is it appropriate to bypass defences by uniting with the patient’s perspective and when to try to get under the defence...
2 Elo 24min
Episode 6: Frustration and Envy - The Apparent Luxury of Collapse
In this episode, Andrew encounters a patient whose stated objective is to own her own competence and self assuredness and to be more like him. Andrew anticipates encountering a people pleaser and is s...
5 Heinä 27min
Episode 5: I'm Glad My Mum Died, But It's A Shame I Didn't Get To Kill Her
In this episode, Rachael gets tangled up in her own anger and hostility towards her patient on behalf of the patient’s daughter. While trying to distance herself from the patient's enmeshment with the...
31 Touko 26min
Episode 4: Therapy Terminable And Interminable
In this episode, Andrew struggles with the question of therapy terminable and interminable. He faces an ethical dilemma as to whether continuing therapy with a particular patient who has made consider...
3 Touko 25min
Episode 2: The Impenetrable Couple - Therapist As Third Wheel
In this episode, Andrew presents an unusual situation where a patient requires his partner to be present in his therapy not to work on couple dynamics, but as a benign observer. Andrew finds himself u...
1 Maalis 21min
Episode 1: I Used ChatGPT And I Still Got Castrated
In this episode, Rachael struggles with her impulse to be castrating when she encounters what she experiences as an impenetrable patient, a Citadel. She is irked by the patient constantly batting awa...
1 Helmi 25min
Episode 8: Hot Shrink For A Hot Minute: Erotic Transference Part II
In this episode, Rachael plumbs the mysteries of the erotic, both in the transference and the countertransference; mysterious because it occurs in liminal or transitional space as Winnicott would say....
7 Syys 202524min
