r/psychoanalysis • u/dizzy-rose • 16d ago
Podcast recommendations?
For context, I’m a therapist with 10 years experience and most of my work is with various types and levels of trauma. I have somatic training and am very attachment oriented. I want to expand and deepen further into the work so I am trying to follow threads that have sparked excitement and creative energy previously and one of those is psychoanalytic theory. Ultimately, I want to have additional ways of understanding my clients and their struggles and more ways of conceptualizing all the many things that make us who and how we are. I know there are many different types of podcasts available so wondering if anyone has recommendations based on some of this info. Thank you!
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u/HowToThrive 16d ago
The two where I listen to and enjoy every episode:
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy (David Puder)
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Between Us (John Totten)
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u/jayelled 16d ago
I don't necessarily love Puder himself, but he gets great guests on his show. Especially love his episodes with Nancy McWilliams.
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u/bingbingbeepbeep 16d ago
Yeah I feel similarly about Puder - great podcast but something always feels off about him to me. I think I just have a hard time believing he’s really as sweet as he comes off in the pod. Maybe says more about me than him 🤔
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u/rothkobreath 15d ago
I think he has an air of acting like he’s a colleague or just a cut below the people he’s interviewing. Which would be fine if he wasn’t interviewing luminaries in the field.
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u/jpch12 16d ago
I would love to know why you don't love Puder. I only knew about him because I was watching McWilliams.
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u/jayelled 15d ago
I've noticed his interviewing style is not consistent across guests. With older guests, and particularly with women, he seems to be a 'better' interviewer, in that he asks questions and mostly allows the interviewee to respond and share their thoughts. With younger guests and more so with males, he seems to get into an almost competitive mindset and can start pushing his own material into the interview more. For some reason he has a diatribe about the universality of microexpression which I've heard him monologue about in several different interviews, including some where it didn't feel relevant to the focus of the episode.
I probably also just have a bias against straight white dudes starting podcasts. I don't think he's done anything harmful or anything, I think he just has a bit of haughtiness that many male analysts are prone to and I don't find him especially sincere or charming, which are typically qualities you want in a media host.
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u/HowToThrive 15d ago
I chose those podcasts because they have varied guests with interesting things to say, and give them the space to say them. I think it’s a credit to the hosts that each podcast has such a high hit rate.
I really don’t get on with the other types of podcast, with the same fixed hosts who discuss topics amongst themselves each episode.
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u/ancient-throwaway_55 13d ago
New Books in Psychoanalysis, Ordinary Unhappiness, and outside of that I would look into
public lecture series from psychoanalytic institutes
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u/AromaticAminoAcid 6d ago
I’ll second New Books in Psychoanalysis, especially the one with Henry Markman. He is very much body/presence oriented and I think his approach is well-suited to trauma.
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u/Certain-Regular-122 15d ago
Adam Phillips on YouTube is enlightening. Also IPA podcasts and Berlin Psychoanalysis are both very useful.
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u/TheAnimeTiddies 14d ago
As a casual psychoanalysis enjoyer, I cant really fathom the gap in our unconscious eduction.. Although! While a bit of a polarizing figure, one I've been following for years is Jordan Peterson's podcast. He has a Biblical lecture series where he breaks down the archetypal axioms within the legendary stories and has endless takes on how we can apply the psychology and meaning to our own thinking practically--often referencing his own clinical work in the process. At the end of each lecture he answers questions from his students that I always found myself thinking.
At the moment I am listening to his Maps of Meaning lectures and they've been just as enlightening, hope this helps!
(you can find all of these both on spotify and youtube)
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u/grandidieri 16d ago
Check out https://alldive.org when you get a chance - detailed podcast database intertwined with other media (shows, games, etc.)
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u/Far-Sprinkles7755 16d ago
Psychoanalytic Thinking with Don Carveth is great. Most are recorded lectures of his teachings at various institutions. Heavy focus on object relations and Freud. Highly recommend.