Vatic: Mental Health & Media Vaughn Foster, Sedona Kintz, and Rachel O'Connor

What would you do for love? If you're Joe Goldberg, the answer is anything. The team dive's into the thriller series YOU and examines the psychological and philosophical concepts perception, ethics, and attachment. 

As always, spoilers within. 

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? A psychological analysis of the music and person of MC legend, Marshall Mathers aka Eminem. The team explores the impact of trauma, resiliency, coping mechanisms, and societal structures and how they impact what versions of ourselves manifest into reality. 

An exploration of dreams from several psychoanalytic theories and mass media depictions. The team also reflects on their personal dream phenomena and the various modes of interpretation.  

A psychological break down into fandoms, hive mind, and other wonderful phenomena bred by mass media.

Cancel Culture- dissected from a family systems lens. Vaughn, Rachel, and Sedona explore this phenomenon and how it relates to attachment, wellness, and human responsibility. 

Comic book Artist Avery Polinori joins the crew in a discussion of Marvel Comics, superheroes, and reality therapy!