Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast

By Between UsSociety & Culture

Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast episodes

April 03, 2024 Episode 41: The Years Between Us
In the premiere of season five, our host John Totten checks in with co-producer Mason Neely as they reflect on the last season of Between Us, the hiatus that followed, and the boundaries of the therapeutic purview. In a meandering conversation, John and Mason look inward at their own creative and family lives and forward to the upcoming season, a collection of dialogues and reflections that, in spite of an aimless production, emerged as far more thematic than intended.
 Contact: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely Music by Mason Neely Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
47 min
June 09, 2021 Episode 40: Radical Openness
In the finale of our fourth season, John discusses therapeutic stance with Dr. Anton Hart who views openness as a key component of healing in the treatment room, especially in regard to societal trauma. Dr. Hart makes the case that foreknowledge is in opposition to curiosity and that curiosity is necessary to introduce new prospects to the therapeutic relationship. As a psychoanalyst, teacher and co-producer of the documentary Black Psychoanalysts Speak, Anton has a unique perspective on the usefulness of our language and how important it is to embrace complexity in a process that, when conducted with a posture of openness and curiosity, leads down endless paths of possibility.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
1 hr 13 min
May 26, 2021 Episode 39: The Embodiment of the Uncanny
Carlos Padrón personifies the concept of psychoanalysis as applied philosophy. As a Venezuelan living in New York, he has witnessed both the horrors of the pandemic and the projections of the immigrant experience. Both phenomena challenge our American fantasies of purity and pit us face to face with that which unsettles us as the uncanny takes form. In a broad-ranging interview recorded last summer, Carlos discusses the political potentiality of psychoanalysis, its invitation to new possibilities, and how it shatters the illusion of ahistorical origins.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
1 hr 5 min
May 12, 2021 Episode 38: The Empirical Wears No Clothes
Dr. Jonathan Shedler is dissatisfied. As both a researcher and a practitioner, he is frustrated with the misinformation that permeates the counseling field, much of it promulgated by an academia with little clinical experience. His contrarian voice is best known for his deconstruction of so-called “evidence-based therapy,” its research methods, and his staunch defense of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Since a seminal paper, a decade ago, he has separated himself from the psychological establishment, to educate everyday clinicians and the lay public on the tenets of psychoanalysis, the importance of the working alliance, and how the therapeutic relationship doesn’t require an instruction manual in order to transform lives.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
1 hr 2 min
April 28, 2021 Episode 37: What Makes Us Useful
As we investigate the role of the therapist-as-citizen, John pauses to interview his own therapist, Lane Gerber, about their relationship and what it means to be useful- useful to our patients, useful to academia, and useful to our interpersonal worlds. Lane describes his experience growing up in a community of Jewish immigrants, what it was like to rebel against his family’s plan for his life, and how he made use of his time learning from renowned theorists Carl Rogers and Heinz Kohut as a young psychology student. In our first instance of a patient interviewing their own therapist, we explore the dynamics of therapist’s disclosure and what it means to each member of this particular dyad.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
44 min
April 14, 2021 Episode 36: ...Our Unfinished Business
This week we continue our conversation with Dr. Medria Connolly and Dr. Bryan Nichols on the psychological case for reparations. From white privilege and its deconstruction to the fantasy of American democracy, Dr. Connolly and Dr. Nichols shed light on some of our more provocative cultural issues, making it clear that we are not living in one America, that we have unfinished business as a society, and that even in their own academic origin stories, the systems in this country are replete with playing fields that require expansion.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
48 min
March 31, 2021 Episode 35: Rupture and Reparations...
Dr. Bryan Nichols and Dr. Medria Connolly had collaborated for several decades when their discovery of Ta-Nehisi Coates shifted the course of their work to making the psychological case for reparations to the descendants of African-American slaves. As psychologists of color, they were intimately aware of the ghosts that haunt our society, even within their own field. What they discovered was a rich potential for healing that extends to Americans of all races, but not without the difficult confrontation of a vile history and the stubborn defenses of white America. Part one of a two-part discussion.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
1 hr
March 17, 2021 Episode 34: Black Bodies, Black Minds
It’s impossible to watch the news without witnessing the horrors sustained by people of color in America. The psychological traumas take a physical toll as well. Never has that been more clear than the covid-19 pandemic which has lowered African-American lifespan more than any other group of people. Ashley McGirt is a therapist and educator who works at the intersection of Black bodies and Black minds as a hospice counselor. Her experiences in a nursing facility and her dedication to her community led her to start the Washington Therapy Fund, a nonprofit that pays for the mental health treatment of Black folks in Washington state. She sat down with John last autumn to discuss that work and how she has taken the tragedies and traumas that have effected her family and community and turned those into action and advocacy.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
48 min
March 03, 2021 Episode 33: Indigenous Narratives
Between Us returns with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra, an author and professor of counseling at Boston College. Dr. Tummala-Narra is our first guest in a series of interviews that ask the question, “Does psychotherapy address what is happening in the news?” Psychoanalysis has not always welcomed issues of culture and diversity. She believes there are theories that need updating and makes the case for a deeper investigation into how cultural narrative is experienced both consciously and unconsciously by the patient.
Support: www.patreon.com/betweenus
Contact: [email protected]
Facebook: www.facebook.com/betweenuspodcast/
Twitter: twitter.com/BetweenUsPod
Instagram: www.instagram.com/betweenuspod/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pPUTf_wRjNxHcCsFJoSSQ
Produced by John Totten and Mason Neely
Music by Mason Neely
Research Assistant: Rose Bergdoll
57 min
May 18, 2020 Episode 32: Lynn Shelton, in Memoriam
This is a repost of our fifth episode featuring filmmaker Lynn Shelton who passed away May 16th, 2020. Originally posted in January of 2017.
---------
There is no better week to discuss the brokenness of humanity. Lynn Shelton is a filmmaker whose films such as Touchy Feely and Your Sister's Sister capture her unique vision of regular people and the ubiquity of psychological pain. She also directs television shows such as Fresh Off the Boat, Casual, and Master of None. She sat down with John following a shoot and discussed her experience of mind and how it shows up in her work.
33 min

About Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast

From the publisher's feed

Psychotherapists John Totten and Mason Neely bring you this psychotherapy podcast that explores what is happening between therapists and patients, from both sides of the relationship.