Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYour Therapist Needs Therapy 136 - Why Are We All So Dumb?
This week Jeremy tackles the rising tide of anti-intellectualism, and tries to bring some nuance to the conversation of “expertise.” Is the Internet …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 135 - The Super Bowl and the Hollow Center of American Dominance
This week Jeremy looks at America’s favorite pastime of staging a glossy reassurance ritual that the old prosperity myth is still alive! Three cheers…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 134 - Protecting Power Over Children
This episode examines why America repeatedly defends powerful men and institutions accused of sexual harm while claiming moral outrage about “protect…
5 months ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 133 - The American Authoritarian Family Tree
Authoritarian movements in the U.S. don’t appear out of nowhere, they inherit patterns. In this episode, Jeremy traces the American authoritarian fam…
5 months, 1 week ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 132 - Take a Hike with Deana Bianco
This week Jeremy is joined by therapist, writer, and occasional radio host Deana Bianco. Jeremy and Deana talk about her journey to becoming a mental…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 131 - Spare the Rod, Fund the Police
This week Jeremy looks at how evangelical, Dobson-style parenting normalizes obedience, fear, and punishment which leads into pro-cop, pro-ICE “law a…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 130 - New Year, Same Capitalism (or "Why Resolutions Never Work")
This week Jeremy shares some insight on the ins-and-outs of New Year's resolutions. He looks at resolutions as a modern control ritual that turns exh…
6 months ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 129 - Comedians Manufacturing Consent for the Culture War
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window no…
6 months, 1 week ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 128 - Are Right Wingers Okay?
Lolz, obviously not. This week Jeremy takes a deeper look at the inevitable and terribly unsurprising turn of right wing media grifters and tech fasc…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 127 - Holiday Q&A
The internet has questions about holidays and boundaries, and I have …thoughts! Individual usage on these answers may vary! Jeremy answers questions …
6 months, 3 weeks ago