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Therapist reviews “Primetime” and Explores the Psychological Themes (opens the original)
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Therapist thoughts on the movie Primetime: All your human heroes have flaws, even those that you uphold as nearly godlike. The movie "Primetime" focuses on the torrid, turbulent last days of "To Catch a Predator" (TCAP) a show which was ingenious in it's mobilization of "gotcha" hidden camera show dynamics to the most morally loathsome behavior known to man. TCAP was a bellwether or harbinger for what the internet was to become: a place of wanton exposure, scandal, and reality as entertainment.
Attachment, Limerence, and the Crisis of Modern Dating (opens the original)
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Sometimes we aren't chasing a person; we're trying to prove that we can obtain a love that was lost to us. Why do we sometimes want the person who is least available to us? And how do you know whether the urge to leave a relationship is wisdom or an old attachment pattern coming back online? In Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Nicole Ohebshalom, we move from trauma therapy into the psychology of relationships, dating, intimacy, shame, and repair. Even though you can listen to this episode comp
Why You Can Understand Yourself and Still Be Stuck (opens the original)
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Introduction Dr. Nicole Ohebshalom joins me to talk about EMDR therapy, trauma,shame, attachment, the body, and high performers.We get into what happens when insight alone isn’t enough.Why some people intellectualize.Why not everyone experiences emotions strongly in their body.And why good trauma therapy involves much more than simply processingpainful memories. This episode begins with a conversation about shame, and bridges intomany relevant psychology topics.Dr. Nicole Ohebshalom and I talk a
The Psychology of Spider-Man: Brand New Day (opens the original)
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I wanted to talk about the new Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day : grief, trauma, how those things mix together and resolve. I want to also address resilience, and how women and men have to work together for trauma recovery. Even if you have not seen the prior movies, you should be able to understand what I address in this article. Several years after No Way Home , Peter Parker lives alone and works almost exclusively as Spider-Man. That is his whole gig. Aunt May is no more after the
Psychotherapy has a Character Problem (opens the original)
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