Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast

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**Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast**

Ever wonder why anxious people love horror movies? Curious about how having the daylights scared out of you can help you feel better? Hosts Jenn Adams, Lara Unnerstall, and therapist Mike Snoonian break it down (and back it up with academic research) on Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast.

Each month, we’ll take an in-depth look at a topic in the mental health field like anxiety, PTSD, and toxic relationships. For our bi-weekly episodes, we’ll pair topics with a horror film and analyze its plot and characters through the lens of mental health. We’ll also discuss our own mental health exp

Latest Episodes:

Workplace Anxiety / Session 9 (2001) PART 1 Mar 03, 2022

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We live in the weak and the wounded … Pod.

Put on your sunglasses and meet us in the morgue as we begin our series on Workplace Anxiety with Session 9.

Research Links

CSI: Miami - Horatio Caine's Sunglasses Moments / One Liners

Photograph of 'ghost wielding axe' aboard old military ship causes social media storm

Opinion: The Great Resignation is also the Great Retirement of the baby boomers. That’s a problem.

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Interview / Hellbender (2021) with The Adams Family Mar 01, 2022

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In this special bonus episode, Mike had the chance to sit down with the filmmaking quartet the Adams family. This husband and wife directing duo of Nick and Tobey Adams have made seven feature films along with their daughter Zelda, who co-writes and co-directs with them, and their daughter Lulu Adams who appears in their latest film, Hellbender. Currently streaming on Shudder, Hellbender tells the story of a daughter isolated from the world by her mother, lest she unleash the powerful and potentially destructive force that lies dormant within her.

The Adams discuss how lockdowns and COVID precautions influenced the cope of their film and how it also freed them to do almost anything they want. They also discussed composing the music together as a family, how they started making movies together in the first place, what horror influences them the most, and so much more.

Make sure to watch Hellbender, along with their previous film The Deeper You Dig, streaming on Shudder now. Follow them on twitter @adams_films. You can also stream their music on Spotify under the band name H6llb6nd6r.

Comfort Horror / Malignant (2021) with Mary Wild Feb 24, 2022

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He says his name is Gabriel. I think he's someone from my pod.

Grab your ironic murder weapon, rip open your skull, and join us for a comfort horror episode on James Wan's Malignant.

It’s time to cut out the podcast.

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Dementia / Relic (2020) Feb 17, 2022

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Light your candle, follow the post-it notes and meet us in the wall behind the mantle as we discuss Dementia with Natalie Erika James’s Relic.

Everything decays.

Research Links:

The role of grief in dementia caregiving

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Comfort Horror / The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) with Katie Rife Feb 10, 2022

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The episode which you are about to listen to is an account of the conversation which befell a group of four friends. It is all the more tragic in that the topic was Comfort Horror. Had they all recorded very, very long episodes, they could not have expected as much of the mad and macabre as they were to discuss. For them an idyllic winter chat became a Comfort Horror episode. The events of that day were to lead to one of the most bizarre entries in the feed of Psychoanalysis, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

RESEARCH LINKS

For nearly 50 years, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have made a meal out of raw panic

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Dementia / The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) Feb 03, 2022

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Grab your spade and meet us at the old mine as we discuss Dementia in The Taking of Deborah Logan.

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Comfort Horror / Horror Express (1972) with Rocco Thompson Jan 27, 2022

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One man dead, another missing. It's time we opened that pod!

Gather your severed eye pictures, your monster hand, and your tiny dog then meet us in the dining car for a comfort horror episode on the 1972 classic, Horror Express.

Podcast? We’re British, you know!

Research Links:

Rue Morgue

In Search of Darkness: Part III

Music notes:

"Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod

"Long Note Three" by Kevin MacLeod

"Emotion Picture" by Bill Ironfield

Logo artwork by Jess Snively

Addiction / Doctor Sleep (2019) PART 2 Jan 20, 2022

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We don't know about podcasts. We always called it "the shining."