It's Not Just In Your Head
301 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago -Two mental health professionals explore how our capitalist economic system impacts our emotional lives. From precarious housing and employment, to unaffordable healthcare, to endless debt -- it's not just in your head!
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#87: Hypnotherapy - Does it work?
May 04, 2022 09:14 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBWhat's the difference between Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy? How does Hypnotherapy work, if at all? Psychotherapist & Hypnotherapist Harriet Fraad answers listeners questions alongside Ikoi Hiroe, a Substance Abuse Councillor. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Hypnosis and Behavioral Medicine: https://w...
Hypnotherapy vs Hypnosis
April 30, 2022 08:33 - 54 seconds - 856 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room and discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
Hypnotherapy vs Hypnosis (Trailer for #87)
April 30, 2022 08:33 - 54 seconds - 856 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room and discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
Hypnotherapy vs Hypnosis (#87 Trailer)
April 30, 2022 08:33 - 54 seconds - 856 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room and discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#86: The Gamification of Relationships (ft. Alfie Bown)
April 27, 2022 15:29 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWe chat to returning guest Alfie Bown about his new book 'Dream Lovers: The Gamification of Relationships'. We discuss and uncover how Technology, Culture and Politics shapes our wants, needs and desires in ways that are often unexamined. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Dream Lovers: The Gamificat...
Have you been 'predicted'?
April 23, 2022 12:18 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
Have you been 'predicted'? (#86 Trailer)
April 23, 2022 12:18 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
Have you been 'predicted'? (Trailer for #86)
April 23, 2022 12:18 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#85: Psychedelic & Relational Therapy (ft. James Barnes)
April 21, 2022 11:05 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBPsychotherapist James Barnes, author of the opinion piece 'Current Psychedelic Therapies Use Flawed Models of the Mind' joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe to discuss how Relational Therapy could be a better fit for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly readin...
Relational Therapy vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
April 19, 2022 12:48 - 1 minute - 1.75 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#84: Diagnosis, disease and labels - does any of it help?
April 14, 2022 15:29 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBPsychotherapist Harriet Fraad presents various problems with the concept of disease encapsulated by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. However Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe offers a series of rebuttals and alternative view points to Harriet's criticisms. It’s an interesting discussion from two different perspectives and if you have any thoughts about this episode feel free to email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at...
Does a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual help?
April 13, 2022 09:45 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#83: Block, Delete, Move On (ft. lalalaletmeexplain)
April 06, 2022 09:58 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBA qualified social worker and dating & relationships educator, lalalaletmeexplain has spent her career working in the public and voluntary sector helping people to work through, or leave, f**ked up relationships, to change negative patterns of behaviour, and to develop self-love. She left her 15 year career in the public sector in 2018 to bring her professional knowledge to social media and has a loyal following of close to 200k on Instagram. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions a...
Dating, misogyny and having to change yourself
April 04, 2022 11:02 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#82: Academia & Exploitation
March 30, 2022 09:49 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBRuthless competition, sexual harassment, crushing student debt, parental pressure, loneliness & working class exclusion ... the pursuit of knowledge meets the reality of a Neo-liberal education in the 21st century. We spoke to four different people about their experiences in the academic world, their expectations and the problems they faced. Despite the opening paragraph above, it's not all bad. From the joys of teaching (and being taught), to using academic respectability to gain access to...
Academia: a right of passage or just exploitation?
March 28, 2022 20:08 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#81: Addiction and Recovery (ft. Carl Erik Fisher)
March 23, 2022 09:10 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBSubstance abuse councilor Ikoi Hiroe talks to Carl Erik Fisher, addiction psychiatrist and author of 'The Urge: Our history of addiction'. Carl draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery to trace the history of addiction that’s troubled us for centuries. His book shows us how addiction has come to be deeply misunderstood and stigmatized in our times, despite being profoundly ordinary across recorded history, and how an honest reckoning with our past su...
AA is not the only path to recovery
March 22, 2022 12:03 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#80: Being working class in a middle class world (ft. Cynthia Cruz)
March 16, 2022 13:49 - 1 hour - 99.1 MBCynthia Cruz, author of 'The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class' joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe to discuss the 'invisibility' of class, the cost of assimilation into the middle class, eating disorders, substance abuse and many other issues. 'To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are ...
Eating Disorders, Capitalism and Class
March 13, 2022 10:30 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#79: Can Indigenous thinking save the world? (ft. Tyson Yunkaporta)
March 07, 2022 12:06 - 2 hours - 111 MBPsychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe have a broad ranging discussion with Tyson Yunkaporta, author of 'Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World'. “Tyson Yunkaporta belongs to the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York and is a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal languages and in Indigenous education, and his research activities include oral histories of natural disasters, langua...
Indigenous thinking vs Liberalism
March 04, 2022 18:18 - 48 seconds - 769 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#78: Justice For Workers (ft. Susan Rosenthal)
February 28, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBWe welcome back Susan to discuss her life and work, specifically with Justice For Workers: 'The movement for decent work is growing. Workers in unstable, low-wage and precarious jobs are demanding justice. The pandemic is demonstrating what we already know - workers need decent wages, decent hours, paid sick days, equal pay, and labour laws that protect us all. While this government is failing workers, with continued organizing, we are proving that even the most anti-worker governments...
Capitalism doesn’t meet our needs
February 24, 2022 10:08 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#77: Overcoming Paranoid Schizophrenia (ft. Tracey Higgins)
February 21, 2022 11:24 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe talk to Tracey Higgins about Paranoid Schizophrenia and her book 'The Girl on the Bridge: A Memoir', which chronicles her survival of severe childhood abuse and achieving a complete recovery without medication. References: The Girl on the Bridge: A Memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Bridge-Memoir-Tracey-Higgins-ebook/dp/B09CKYP4FW Tracey's website, for educational purposes only: https://www.fullrecoveryfromschizophrenia.ca/ Tracey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceyHiggins92 ATTE...
Do you need a high IQ to recover from Schizophrenia?
February 17, 2022 11:23 - 46 seconds - 732 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#76: The Disordered States of America
February 14, 2022 09:56 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBHarriet and Ikoi take a look at the social conditions of the USA with a diagnostic angle. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. References: A short (and entertaining) video by '1Dime' about Modern Monetary Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBk78wG1U9U ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligat...
The self made man & rent control
February 13, 2022 14:31 - 40 seconds - 642 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#75: Power Fantasies, Videogames and Ideology (ft. Jon Bailes)
February 06, 2022 18:36 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBWe chat with Jon Bailes author of 'Ideology and the Virtual City', a book exploring modern society and the critical value of popular culture. He describes how ‘neoliberal’ ideology in today’s societies dominates our economic, political and cultural ideals, with an entertaining exploration of narratives, characters and play structures in some of today’s most interesting videogames. We discuss his four 'archetypes' - essentially a set of attitudes or behaviors that encapsulates attitudes w...
Why power fantasies in videogames are so appealing
February 02, 2022 13:06 - 1 minute - 1.07 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#74: Marx at home
January 31, 2022 14:49 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBHarriet examines how and why we might want to use Marxist analysis in our personal lives. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. References: Class struggle on the home front: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16944413-class-struggle-on-the-home-front Knowledge, class and economics: https://www.goodre...
Seperating the thinker from the thoughts (thanks mom, lol)
January 27, 2022 14:28 - 1 minute - 970 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#73: Does Capitalism Make Us Crazy? (ft. Susan Rosenthal)
January 24, 2022 08:29 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBWe talk with physician and (now retired) trauma-informed psychotherapist Susan Rosenthal about how the label of 'mental illness' is unique to Capitalism and it's pathological need to individualize 'disorders'. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Does Capitalism Make Us Crazy?: https://susanrosenthal.c...
CBT vs 'therapeutic situations'
January 20, 2022 14:10 - 1 minute - 1.03 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#72: A new co-host for INJIYH (ft. Ikoi Hiroe)
January 17, 2022 10:58 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBA broad ranging discussion covering care worker conditions, dying for your boss, profit in healthcare, abusive healthcare professionals, mental health stigmatization, male suicide, why it can suck to be a boy, borderline personality disorder and medication issues surrounding chronic pain. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly read...
(EXPLICIT) The trap of overwork and pain medication
January 12, 2022 12:09 - 42 seconds - 672 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#71: Does Identity Politics breed Victimhood or Revolution?
January 10, 2022 12:33 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBHarriet takes a dive into the different ideas and history surrounding Identity Politics. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Links: Mistaken Identity - Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2716-mistaken-identity ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obli...
We can't win without each other
January 04, 2022 10:46 - 1 minute - 1.11 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#70: Videogames & programmable desire! (ft. Dr Alfie Bown)
December 29, 2021 15:12 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWe speak to Dr Alfie Bown about the role videogames play in our mental health and our lives. Are they a modern day opiate for the masses or are they something more? Alfie is Lecturer in Digital Media Culture and Technology at Royal Holloway in London. Alfie also writes journalism for places such as The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Independent, New Statesman and Newsweek. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsn...
Videogames, enjoyment and desire!
December 24, 2021 13:28 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#69: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine (ft. Renee A. Schuls-Jacobson)
December 20, 2021 13:55 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBMax & Harriet speak to Renee A. Schuls-Jacobson about her book 'Psychiatrized: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine'. "When a trusted physician tells Renée Schuls-Jacobson that he has the solution for her chronic insomnia -- a “tried and true medication without any side effects,” she believes him. For seven years, she takes her clonazepam exactly as prescribed until, one day, she learns that her doctor is wrong: long-term benzodiazepine use causes all kinds of problems including pr...
What role should medication play in mental health?
December 12, 2021 13:00 - 3 minutes - 2.88 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#68: Psychoanalysis & Revolution (ft. Ian Parker)
December 11, 2021 18:19 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBMax, Harriet and Liam talk with one of two authors about a new book 'Psychoanalysis & Revolution', exploring the different 'psy' disciplines and what makes Psychoanalysis a potentially liberating practice. "This manifesto is an argument for connecting social transformation with personal liberation, showing that the two aspects of profound change can be intimately linked together using psychoanalysis. The manifesto explores what lies beyond us, what we keep repeating, what pushes and pulls u...
The 'Unconscious' is not just in your head...
December 08, 2021 12:29 - 1 minute - 1.77 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#67: Happiness... USA vs the world
December 04, 2021 11:03 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBHarriet examines 'The World Happiness Report 2021' and why America, one of the richest countries in the world, is ranked 19th. What are the other countries doing right? Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: The World Happiness Report 2021: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/ The Nordic...
USA is #19th on the World Happiness Index...
November 29, 2021 17:23 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#66: Striketober
November 27, 2021 13:42 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBHarriet takes a deep dive into the events of Striketober and the hope it offers. Harriet & Liam also discuss the issues raised in the Medium article 'Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?'. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at [email protected]. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Af...
"We are not taught to question"
November 22, 2021 14:51 - 1 minute - 1.12 MBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support
#65: Activist Burnout (ft. Max & Max)
November 21, 2021 17:37 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBDo you ever take on so much activist work that you become physically or emotionally sick? Begin to hate everyone around you for not 'throwing down' into the cause as much as you? Notice yourself becoming more and more bitter, fantasizing about exiting the movement permanently and becoming a Wall Street Banker because who cares, nothing matters, we're all gonna die anyway? Max does a solocast episode about activist burnout, splits himself into two people, and does a lot of deep breath...
Are you a burned out activist?
November 16, 2021 09:17 - 40 seconds - 644 KBBecome a patron of our podcast at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to get early access to full episodes, our discord chat room, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support