THERAPY
Being a cheapskate Dr. Vincent Giarrusso has regular sessions with Michael Sheinberg, a psychotherapist in training
These are the recordings.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 88
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Is Cajoling a sport?
Michael questions the correct pronunciation of “scone” and Vincent is uplifted when he learns that he has qualified as a potential nominee for the Mentalympics.
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Fawn failure
A fawning incident at work forces Vincent to question Michael’s dentistry skills and ability to lead a buddhist workshop.
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Men without hats
Much to Vincent’s delight Anita Beard wins a failure award at the institution they both work at, meanwhile Michael recites the safety dance.
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Cognition Ignition
Michael has a lightbulb moment when Vincent existentially moves on from existentialism.
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Clognitive Behavioural Theory
From the depths of existential angst Michael suggests a new modality for Vincent's therapy journey which includes clogs.
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Vincent hits the trifecta with three failed projects adding to his existential malaise. Michael suggests that he acts rather than reacts
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Adoption is an option?
Vincent is disconcerted when finds out that his father is visited regularly by Nostradamus and that he will live forever . Michael suggests that Vincent is legally adopted by his mother in law
Do two negatives make a positive?
Despite all of Michael’s reframing Vincent suffers existential angst when he fails at being nominated for a failure award.
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Flunking Up
Michael questions positive affirmations when Vincent is in the running to be nominated for a failure award.
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Roads to Freedom
Michael decides to cure Sam’s conjunctivitis with a water gun whilst Vincent immerses himself in existential literature
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King Ham
Vincent is jubilant after he manages to redirect the farmer’s wife's neural pathways. Michael uses Hamlet as a way to reconfigure Vincent’s therapy journey which leaves Vincent unsure of who he is a…
Apologies Unaccepted
Vincent is bamboozled when Michael suggests existentialism as a different course of determination.
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Face to Face AI
Vincent felt penetrated by Michael’s intent gaze. as an AI analysis of Michael and Vincent’s first and only face to face encounter confirms that it was an unmitigated disaster.
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Roast Icarus
Michael’s diagnosis is that low stability is contributing to Vincent’s flat mood and lack of buoyancy
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Every which way but loose
Michael proposed a Las Vegas style of performative therapy as a new stage of enquiry whilst Vincent is reticent about articulation.
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When less is more
Vincent changes tact and commences an approach to humanistic therapy that is minimalist and austere.
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La toilette de chewbacca.
Michael's exploration of pop culture hits a nerve as Vincent grapples with a self centred indulgent consumption therapy approach
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May the Gramsci be with you.
Michael reminisces about a paper he once wrote at university whilst Vincent struggles with his vocal chords .
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The luxury of therapy
Vincent embraces the humanistic therapeutic approach whilst rejecting soft centre chocolate.
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Humanistic school rules
After much reflection Michael suggests a new therapy route for Vincent.
Written and performed by Vincenzo Giarrusso and Michael Sheinberg
Based on an original idea by Vincenzo Giarrus…