Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision
Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision
Gill Straker, Rachael Burton, Andrew Geeves
Three Associating is a podcast that offers the listener a peek behind the closed doors of therapists working within a relational psychoanalytic model. Join Rachael and Andrew as they explore with their supervisor Gill how their own hidden feelings and motivations influence the therapeutic process and affect their patients. In each episode, a relational dilemma arising in the context of work with a fictitious patient is explored. While reasons of confidentiality and privacy mean that none of the patients we discuss are real, the relational dynamics are. www.threeassociating.com
Episode 8: Feeling Drowsy When The Connection Is Lousy
In this last episode of season 1, Gill, Rachael, and Andrew grapple with the challenges of staying awake when it seems that the other person is exaggerating wildly or, even worse, is somewhat out of touch with reality. Faced with the seemingly impossible task of finding a constructive way to express one’s thoughts to the person, it is easy to unconsciously zone out instead. www.threeassociating.com
Jul 10, 2021
30 min
Episode 7: When The Patient Demands Special Treatment
Gill, Andrew, and Rachael wrestle with the thorny issues of rivalry and competition. They show how, ironically, being caught in rivalry can lead one to give away one’s authority, as the focus comes to be placed on competing rather than on occupying one’s own personal power. www.threeassociating.com
Jul 2, 2021
30 min
Episode 6: Fairweather Friend: The Honeymoon Is Over
Gill, Andrew, and Rachael encounter the common problem of when we are drawn in by charisma, fail to set firm boundaries and then experience guilt and anxiety about hurting the other person when we feel our boundaries have been transgressed. www.threeassociating.com
Jul 2, 2021
34 min
Episode 5: Therapist As Sex Object
Gill, Rachael, and Andrew dive into the heady brew of sex and aggression, showing how these issues can be unconsciously provoked and can then easily lead to shame and overwhelm. www.threeassociating.com
Jun 26, 2021
30 min
Episode 4: Twinning Isn't Always Winning
Gill, Andrew and Rachael uncover some unexpected disadvantages of friendliness, delving into how affability can cover up an unconscious fear of difference and otherness, and also mask a desire to be mirrored back positively to oneself. www.threeassociating.com
Jun 26, 2021
31 min
Episode 3: When An Explosion Is Detonated In Session (Part 2 of 2)
Gill, Andrew and Rachael discover how unconscious disapproval can be communicated with ill effect and provoke bullying and verbal intimidation in return, resulting in overwhelm, dissociation, and an inability to think. www.threeassociating.com
Jun 18, 2021
35 min
Episode 2: When Our Best Is Not Good Enough (Part 1 of 2)
Gill, Andrew and Rachael come to understand how an unconscious bias towards over-identifying with a person's trauma story inadvertently deprives the person of agency and disallows a more nuanced perception of the person. www.threeassociating.com
Jun 18, 2021
32 min
Episode 1: Naming Without Shaming
Gill, Rachael, and Andrew explore the common problem of feeling conflicted between a wish to be accepting and the desire to be confronting of offensive stances and statements. They come to recognise how understanding one's own unconscious biases contributes to the solution. www.threeassociating.com
Jun 18, 2021
30 min