Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast

I have been looking for deep dive talks about horror and mental health. Also super fun to rewatch the movies after listening to the podcast to pick up on details that I have might missed the first time.

A wonderfully original take on horror

As a therapist myself who is also a fan of horror, I really have high hopes for this podcast. Criticisms - the hosts draw too much on their own trauma. I work with clients all day and I have to take this podcast in small chunks because I sometimes feel like I’m doing too much emotional labor for these podcast hosts. The theory that is brought it is good to include, and very approachable for a lay-person. I really, really wanted to love this podcast but it just doesn’t seem as tight or polished as other horror podcasts I listen to. Also, and this is just my own personal bias and gripe, but listening to the hosts stumble through descriptions of contemporary Neo-Paganism on their Wickerman episode was embarrassing. It would have been cool to have an actual with or contemporary practitioner as a guest. I have the understating that one of the hosts practices some witchcraft? But that’s not at all the same as a deeply devotional, folk/indigenous practice that is depicted in the Wickerman. Also - the word is “parthenogenesis” and it’s not a dragon - it’s a hobby horse. Not that I expect everyone to be as obsessed with this film as I am, but they just get a lot factually and thematically wrong about this film. Clearly lots of work goes into this podcast, which is cool. But I wonder who the audience is?

I grew up watching and loving horror movies, but haven’t been able to go there in probably 10 years due to life things and past trauma. Listening to the hosts describe and dissect the movies over the last year has given me the nudge I needed to rediscover some old favorites. Today I watched a new, horrifying movie, all by my 40 yr old self :)! This podcast is amazing and one of my go to’s! I love the mix of horror and mental health connections. Hosts are interesting and insightful.