Connie Perl Psychology

This November, Grand Theft Auto VI will put tens of millions of players, most of them men, in a relationship with Lucia Caminos. She is the franchise’s first playable female lead, and for the first time in the series, how players treat her is tracked, remembered, and reflected back at them. In this episode, we separate the facts from the hype. Lucia is a co-protagonist, not a dating-sim reward, an...

There is a human rights crisis happening globally right now, and it is gender-based. This episode will explore cherry picked examples to demonstrate this thesis. Andrew and Tristan Tate are sitting in a Miami detention cell, fighting extradition on fifty-nine combined charges of rape, trafficking, and child exploitation across three countries — while a parallel case at Cornell University alleges s...

Ever spent an hour decoding a text with your friends, trying to figure out what he really meant? This series is for you. Welcome to the Connie Perl Psychology Book Club , where we’re reading He’s Just Not That Into You one chapter at a time. It started as one brutally honest line in the Sex and the City writers’ room, turned into an unforgettable episode of the show, and then became the dating boo...

TW: Rape, sexual assault, drug use. Case facts current as of Friday, October 2, 2026. Everyone online is debating the legal side of the Cornell Seven case. As a psychologist-in-training, that’s not what I’m here for. In this episode, I take the stand as your expert witness for educational purposes only — I’m not testifying in this case, and I’ve never assessed anyone involved. This is about the SC...

Hayden Panettiere died on August 16, 2026, at the young age of 36 years old — and if you grew up watching Heroes or Nashville, this one probably hit you harder than you expected, as it did me. In this episode, I go through what we actually know about her death, and then spend most of the show on what she spent years being remarkably honest about: her relationships and postpartum depression. In her...

Ever spent an hour decoding a text with your friends, trying to figure out what he really meant? This series is for you. Welcome to the Connie Perl Psychology Book Club , where we’re reading He’s Just Not That Into You one chapter at a time. It started as one brutally honest line in the Sex and the City writers’ room, turned into an unforgettable episode of the show, and then became the dating boo...

If you want to grow, learn about relationships, and put valuable lessons into practice in your own life… you’re in the right place. 💌In The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, Jungian analyst James Hollis explains that people use romantic relationships to seek a “magical other” who will fix their inner emptiness. Instead of a how-to fix a partner guide, the book is a call to stop using...

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the deaths of her three children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — and the jury isn’t just being asked to look at the facts. They’re being asked to decide something much narrower: was she conscious enough, in that moment, to know what she was doing was criminal? That’s what a trial is built to determine. Psychology asks a different question — and today we’re looking at bo...

Welcome to the Connie Perl Psychology Book Club. We’ll meet right here on Monday evenings to discuss compelling ideas about psychology, love & relationships — written by great writers, analysts, & researchers. If you want to grow, learn about relationships, and put valuable lessons into practice in your own life… you’re in the right place. 💌In The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, Jun...

Welcome to the Connie Perl Psychology Book Club. We’ll meet right here on Monday evenings to discuss compelling ideas about psychology, love & relationships — written by great writers, analysts, & researchers. If you want to grow, learn about relationships, and put valuable lessons into practice in your own life… you’re in the right place. 💌In The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, Jun...

You already know the story. A name you didn’t recognize. Six months of DMs. A Signal app with no messages in it. A phone turned face-down one too many times. Micro-cheating is one of the most talked-about — and least understood — relationship phenomena of our time. And in this episode, I’m going all the way in: what it actually is, why we do it, whether technology created it or just made it easier...

Welcome to the Connie Perl Psychology Book Club. We’ll meet right here on Monday evenings to discuss compelling ideas about psychology, love & relationships — written by great writers, analysts, & researchers. If you want to grow, learn about relationships, and put valuable lessons into practice in your own life… you’re in the right place. 💌I’m so excited to introduce you to the first chapter of...

In this episode, I take on one of the most loaded questions in relationship psychology: what chronic infidelity actually tells us about a person. Not morally. Psychologically . Rather than framing cheating as simply right or wrong, I zoom out — drawing on evolutionary psychology, Freudian theory, and developmental research — to ask what repeated betrayal reveals about a person’s capacity for self-...

John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy are often remembered as one of the most iconic couples in modern history — but what was actually happening beneath the surface of their relationship? In this episode, I take a clinical psychology lens to their story, analyzing their dynamic through attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), psychodynamic theory, and systems psychology. We...

In this episode of Connie Perl Psychology, we take a deep psychological dive into Clavicular—the viral TikTok looksmaxxer—and unpack what his content reveals about modern masculinity, attraction, and the evolving meaning of love in the digital age. Through the lenses of attachment theory, CBT, psychodynamic theory, EFT, and narrative psychology, this episode explores looksmaxxing culture, emotiona...

What happens when someone falls in love with an AI? In this episode, we explore the psychological, neurological, and relational implications of AI companionship through the lens of a real case from Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin?. This isn’t just a conversation about technology — it’s a deeper inquiry into what makes love real, how attachment forms, and what happens when connection becomes f...

In this first episode of Connie Perl Psychology, we unpack one of the most common—and most misunderstood—questions about relationships: Does couples therapy actually work? Drawing from clinical psychology, attachment research, and real-world patterns seen in couples, this episode explores why so many people believe therapy “fails”—and the deeper truth behind it. The issue isn’t that couples therap...