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Does anyone else listen to this?
It's a fiction podcast by Lauren Shippen about a psychologist who provides therapy for people with psychic powers (atypicals).
Things I normally can't deal with at all:
1) Fiction podcasts. I often can't tell the voices apart, and I generally find them annoying and hard to follow.
2) Fiction about therapists. They are invariably unethical, which is annoying because come the fuck on, this is not such a boring job that the only way to make it interesting is to have them be unethical. More often than not, they have sex with their clients, which ties with pedophilia and bodily waste stuff for my number one squick.
And even if they're not unethical and don't fuck their patients, they're generally bad at therapy, or they don't actually show much of the therapy and what they do show is 90% the client screaming at the therapist, or the entire therapy conceit is just a framework for the clients to talk about their lives, which is fine but they might as well be talking to a bartender.
However, I tried the first episode because I'm doing daily physical therapy for my wrist (Dequervains synovitis, thanks ivy!) and was bored. It was surprisingly listenable (normally I nope out of fiction podcasts within three minutes) and I am now partway into season four.
Why I am still listening:
33% it's entertaining.
33% hate-listening for bad therapy and bad ethics/boggling at "What planet are these characters from?! Who thinks this way?!"
33% I got extremely invested in a certain relationship - if you've listened to the show, I'm curious if you can guess which one.
1% like I said, lots of daily PT.
Before I post a long rant, mostly about "Who thinks this way?!" and "Why don't you stop saying 'Oh dear, this is terribly unethical' and try to come up with an actual goddamn solution to the ethical problem?!", I'm curious if anyone else is familiar with the show.
It's a fiction podcast by Lauren Shippen about a psychologist who provides therapy for people with psychic powers (atypicals).
Things I normally can't deal with at all:
1) Fiction podcasts. I often can't tell the voices apart, and I generally find them annoying and hard to follow.
2) Fiction about therapists. They are invariably unethical, which is annoying because come the fuck on, this is not such a boring job that the only way to make it interesting is to have them be unethical. More often than not, they have sex with their clients, which ties with pedophilia and bodily waste stuff for my number one squick.
And even if they're not unethical and don't fuck their patients, they're generally bad at therapy, or they don't actually show much of the therapy and what they do show is 90% the client screaming at the therapist, or the entire therapy conceit is just a framework for the clients to talk about their lives, which is fine but they might as well be talking to a bartender.
However, I tried the first episode because I'm doing daily physical therapy for my wrist (Dequervains synovitis, thanks ivy!) and was bored. It was surprisingly listenable (normally I nope out of fiction podcasts within three minutes) and I am now partway into season four.
Why I am still listening:
33% it's entertaining.
33% hate-listening for bad therapy and bad ethics/boggling at "What planet are these characters from?! Who thinks this way?!"
33% I got extremely invested in a certain relationship - if you've listened to the show, I'm curious if you can guess which one.
1% like I said, lots of daily PT.
Before I post a long rant, mostly about "Who thinks this way?!" and "Why don't you stop saying 'Oh dear, this is terribly unethical' and try to come up with an actual goddamn solution to the ethical problem?!", I'm curious if anyone else is familiar with the show.
