Private Practice Podcast

Private Practice Podcast

By Dan Brown & James HallComedySociety & CultureHealth & FitnessMental HealthPhilosophy
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Private Practice Podcast episodes

  • Paranoia

    This episode features ideas intolerable to the ego. From George W Bush bombing the Middle East, to the bloke in the office who complains about everyone else being rubbish, we are all paranoid. But is this such a bad thing? Is it better to understand your paranoia, or live in perpetual defence? Who should take responsibility for their own paranoia…? It's not me, it's you.


    We discuss:


    Anxiety from within and without.

    How the subconscious creates a paranoid perspective.

    Why this is comforting/cathartic.

    The process of recognition.

    Individual and societal paranoia.

    Bullying.

    Resentment of institutions.


    Quotes from 'Paranoia' by David Bell, which is an excellent short book.


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    1 hr 9 min
  • Intro to Season 4

    A few things have changed for Season 4, as we start to look in more detail at the ideas in psychoanalysis, and so we took the time to introduce them in this short episode. The aim of our evolution is detailed on our new website – privatepracticepodcast.net – but regardless of any of this, ultimately you'll keep listening if you like us, and stop listening if you don't… To eliminate the anxiety of making that decision about whether or not you like us, let me make it for you: you do. You like us. So go on, treat yourself. It's the spring/summer collection and it's going to look great on you.


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    14 min
  • Episode 26: Noël House Party
    Dan and James are back together to lift your spirits with a bigger-er, bumper-er Christmas Special. Life lessons are learned and wisdom is imparted in this episode, but really you just want to know who wins the Sack Game this year. What better way to soothe all the anxiety created by the hyper-consumerism of Christmas, than to numb yourself with James telling a story about getting his foot wet, and Dan shouting names of cheeses? Thanks to "Petit Suisse" for contributions to this episode, and to Archive.org for helping it to be sprinkled with novelty audio decoration. There's a loose end about how flamingoes get their colour, but you can find that somewhere else on the Internet — something to do with eating Prawns?
    1 hr 20 min
  • Episode 25: "You're Dead to Me"
    This is a podcast about mental health, and so instead of just going on about nonsense I've been saying in French (although of that there is ample), I (James this week) revisit the story of "James 4" (obviously not his real name) because it is a strange and interesting tale. I can only bring you one side of the story, but I'm more curious than conclusive, and so hopefully this will be of interest if you have ever experienced someone's anger aimed in your direction.
    30 min
  • Episode 24: The Wall Comes Down
    When the therapist has more issues than the patient, it's a reminder that we are all just people and not defined by our profession (or totally not-a-profession for legal reasons in the Private Practice). This week Dan talks openly about why he has been sombre in recent pod-cards, and has a couple of things to say about last week's FAQs... It's not a competition, but Dan wins this round (and takes a fifth of your time to do so).
    11 min
  • Episode 23: FAQs
    Bienvenue à Montpellier, where this episode was recorded in the postmodern utopia of Antigone, and the idyllic Jardin des Plantes. All of Dan's questions from last week, many of which were "frequently asked" in one go, are comprehensively answered.
    49 min
  • Episode 21: Coming off the Rails
    Hopping around Italy, Switzerland and France (Switalance?), James eventually comes off the rails… and says au revoir to a month of travelling. In this episode some joy with the success of purposeful solitude, and some sadness revisiting locations with memories of relatives who have kicked the bucket. We start in the Bay of Silence, where James managed to pick a morning when it was too noisy to record. James will now refer to himself in the third person one last time.
    26 min
  • Episode 19: Prague to Budapest
    No one likes it when someone changes their role. Dan is the thoughtful, slower, introspective font of wisdom, and James is the joker who shouts and makes everything into a big old game; a bit of fun, when in small doses. So this week you will be traumatised to hear 24 minutes of James being thoughtful and introspective, with only two jokes. That's a joke frequency of one every 12 mins, the same frequency as the C11 bus in North London on a Sunday. And let me tell you, if I just missed one when I lived on the route I would walk every time. However, if you see fit to listen all the way to the end, you can at least feel satisfied that this podcast is veering slightly back into the realms of mental health, as opposed to picking up where Jill Dando left off with 'Holiday'.
    25 min

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Just about sufficiently entertaining and somewhere on the path to fascinating information about the mind, Private Practice Podcast is tantalisingly close to being exactly what you need to improve your…