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THERAPISTS on the SILVER SCREEN: fantasy or fact?
THERAPISTS on the SILVER SCREEN: fantasy or fact?
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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
In psychoanalysis a screen memory covers up a deeper, more emotionally charged issue. Similarly, movie and television screens both shield and open us to human complexity through fiction. The opportunity to peer into shadow and secrets from a safe distance is irresistible. Depictions can range from the malevolent Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) to psychic empath Deanna Troy (Star Trek). Most on-screen therapists, however, like their real-world counterparts, are wounded healers doing their best to help despite sometimes substantial fallibilities. Bruce Willis (Sixth Sense) doesn’t realize he’s dead; Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos) denies her mobster client’s sociopathy; and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) is a comedic spoof of a psychiatrist. Jung says, “it is his own hurt that gives a measure of his power to heal.” Dream I was attending a drag show, but I put on a costume and began to perform on stage. I was a background performer for someone else, and I was just walking around the stage. I felt like I wasn’t wearing the costume that I wanted to wear. I didn’t feel comfortable or confident. I also felt like I wasn’t getting cheered on by the crowd. I got off the stage and felt unseen. I remember seeing a pill bottle, and not knowing what it was, I took a pill. It was someone’s else’s medication that I stole. I spent the rest of the dream trying to hide in shame from taking someone else’s medicine, and anxiously waiting to see what the pill was going to do to me.
Released:
Dec 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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