Private Practice Podcast

We're starting a new season of the podcast with an introduction to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's idea of 'Flow' as a process of ordering consciousness. Having looked at a different idea in psychoanalysis…

Wheels up in 5 mins, welcome aboard this internal flight to your ego, where the weather is currently calm and sunny, but there are storm clouds on the horizon. It's the Private Practice Podcast Summe…

Attention Autistes! This episode was recorded a year ago in Dan's allotment, at the end of season two. If you're new to this podcast, don't start here. But instead of chucking it on the compost we de…

You're into what now? What on earth would your father think of you?! This week we look at perversion as deviation from a biological or societal predominance, and how this informs personal development…

There's a tarantula crawling over your face and you need to murder it now. Do something cathartic and that malicious monster will never breathe again! It's a juicy one this week; if every ten minutes…

This week we share our phantasies, and the bad news for anyone craving something salacious is that once the F is replaced with a Ph, the result is James reliving his megalomaniac childhood. Think abo…

Jon Ronson mildly irritated James a couple of weeks ago, with an interview in which he expressed an opinion of psychoanalysis wasting his time and CBT coming to save him, pants outside tights, quicke…

'James Hall, My Life in Words' – This week Dan asks James to try and work out from where exactly his beliefs about himself come. Some would call this an unwise move, as the answer is likely to be com…

Your friend goes to war and sees their comrade having their legs blown off. Meanwhile, you've just returned from a traumatic experience at the supermarket, where they'd run out of your favourite type…

A woman as stiff as a plank, held by the neck and ankles between two chairs while her uterus is assumed to prowl around her body like a wild animal, and a drag queen, delivering a slick and formatted…

This episode features ideas intolerable to the ego. From George W Bush bombing the Middle East, to the bloke in the office who complains about everyone else being rubbish, we are all paranoid. But is…

A few things have changed for Season 4, as we start to look in more detail at the ideas in psychoanalysis, and so we took the time to introduce them in this short episode. The aim of our evolution is…