Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision

Gill Straker, Rachael Burton, Andrew Geeves•www.threeassociating.com

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

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Episodes

Episode 8: Feeling Drowsy When The Connection Is Lousy

In this last episode of season one, 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•31 min•Season 1Ep. 8

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 02, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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 02, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 6

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•Season 1Ep. 5

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•Season 1Ep. 4

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•Season 1Ep. 3

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•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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