It's Not Just In Your Head

Psychotherapist Dr Harriet Fraad and Addiction & Substance Use Disorder Counselor, Ikoi talk to an Environmental Neuroscientist about how cities make people LESS depressed, urban scaling theory, pace of life, green spaces and class, nature and fractal images, infrastructure and social control, and much more! References: Why life is faster but depression is lower in bigger cities: https://psych...

"This book is a wake-up call to the potential damage we are doing to ourselves by relying on chemical cures for human distress. Its clear, concise explanations will enable people to make a fully informed decision about the benefits and harms of these drugs and whether and how to come off them if they so choose." Psychotherapist Dr Harriet Fraad and Addiction & Substance Use Disorder...

Psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Fraad is joined by activist physician William Bronston MD to discuss his astonishing book 'Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America': "Public Hostage should make you outraged. The mistreatment of disabled people in Willowbrook and the mistreatment today of disabled people living in  institutions must be understood and together we must fight to pro...

Anthropologists William Dawley and Fartein Nilsen join us to discuss their work on a fascinating project ‘Technoscientific Immortality: A study of Human Futures’, covering the current technologies and philosophies of people trying to live forever and the challenges this poses to existing kinship relations.  It’s an extensive discussion covering cryonics, anti-aging, death-ism & the idea o...

“When people rebel you can call them crazy”. Psychotherapist Dr. Harriet Fraad discusses an article sent to us by a patron entitled: HYSTERIA, WITCHES, AND THE WANDERING UTERUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OR, WHY I TEACH “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”. We discuss how a diagnosis - such as hysteria - often says more about a society than the individual, the fear of female emotions, irrationality, fragility and protect...

YouTuber T1J joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi to discuss racism, class, the DSA, Jay-Z, Cornel West, socialist history, 'staying in your lane', organizing that replicates the workplace, and meeting people where they are at. References: Why Aren't There More Black Socialists? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7mqstf5sw This Streamer Thinks I'm...

Anthropologist Professor Rebecca Cassidy, author of 'Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling', chats with Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe: “Vicious Games is based on field research with the people who produce, shape and consume gambling. Rebecca Cassidy explores the gambling industry's affinity with capitalism and the free market and how the UK has led the way in exporting 'light touch' regul...

The Queen is dead... and who cares? The Monarchy are a potent symbol of unjust hierarchical power, yet the English (and many across the world) are in tears. What are the psychological mechanism at play? Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi (and British editor/producer/co-host Liam Tate) discuss fawning, the enjoyment of suffering, passivity, 'being part of history&...

Max is joined by Jeff and Eric, 2 of 7 worker-owners of a therapist worker cooperative in Minneapolis, Minnesota called Phoenix Mental Health. In their collective, everyone keeps 100% of the money they earn from seeing clients, and everyone pitches in money to pay for rent, bills, credentialing, billing, and accounting. They use consensus decision making in meetings, and people know them to be a "...

Does the Manosphere care about men? We chat with F.D.Signifier about his string of popular video essays: 'Dissecting the Manosphere', 'Connecting the Manosphere' and 'Understanding the BIack Manosphere'. "The manosphere is a collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism." The conversation covers aggrieved entitlement, the promise of pa...

Why do women who display the same behaviors as men get diagnosed with BPD at a 3:1 ratio? What behaviors are allowed by which gender? In this episode Dr. Morris discuss with Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi about the assumptions made of the human subject, whether the BPD label helps or hurts, living up to inhumane ideals, liminal spaces, self harm and a metaphorica...

"The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind". We are joined by the author of the new book 'Survival of the Richest' and host of the Team Human podcast Douglas Rushkoff, who MIT declared as one of the top ten most influential thinkers. "Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the “Event”: the societal cat...

"The recent publication... reviewed decades of research, the chemical imbalance myth was shown to have no support in scientific evidence. The theory of a chemical imbalance is a myth, and has always been a myth." Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi discuss the recent Mad in America article 'Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the...

Born into the Unification Church (aka The Moonies), Alisa talks with Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi, about her experiences living in the cult, how she got out, and her reflections on how she has navigated life since. Part 2 of this conversation is a patron only episode. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our dis...

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References: Applied Behavior Analysis: https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in autistics exposed to applied behavior analysis: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322239353_Evidence_of_increased_PTSD_symptoms_in_autistics_exposed_to_applied_behavior_analysis "The pros, cons, and controversial aspects of ABA": https://www.psychologytoday.co...

ABA is controversial, with evidence of PTSD symptoms in Autistic children exposed to it. Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi Hiroe are joined by a practitioner of Applied Behavior Analysis, to discuss its methods and many problems. -- References: Applied Behavior Analysis: https://www.autismspeaks.org/applied-behavior-analysis Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in au...

References: Without Apology - The Abortion Struggle Now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3095-without-apology https://aidaccess.org/ https://www.plancpills.org/ https://www.aidandabetabortion.org/ https://www.ifwhenhow.org/ https://abortionondemand.org/ -- ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message: This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms o...

Author of 'Without Apology - The Abortion Struggle Now' Jenny Brown joins Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi to discuss the fight back for women's reproductive rights in the USA. Jenny discusses the history of abortion rights, numerous useful tactics and shares various resources (listed below). "... it is time to return to the fundamental ideas that...

One Hundred Episodes! To celebrate Liam challenges Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi to answer the question: when IS it just in your head? When is it NOT Capitalism? The episode covers the right-wings favorite topic: 'personal responsibility', as well as topics like self blame, maladaptive externalizations, empowerment, loneliness, the power to immiserate, j...

Max is back! (Or at least for this one episode, hopefully more in future). Max talks with Anna Zeira regarding her paper 'Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States'. "Rates of mental illness have increased dramatically over the past 15 years in the United States. Additionally, life expectancy has fallen over the past several years due to increases in death from...

Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi discuss the healthline article, 'The Beginner’s Guide to Trauma Responses' and how fight, flight, freeze & fawn not only effect the individual, but the family, relationships and society in general. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com . References: https://www.healthline.com/he...

Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi talk with host of This is Revolution podcast Jason Myles about his experiences with homelessness and working with the homeless population. Part 2 of this conversation is a patron only episode. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion gro...

"Transference is a phenomenon in  which one seems to direct feelings or desires related to an important  figure in one’s life—such as a parent—toward someone who is not that  person. In the context of psychoanalysis and related forms of therapy ,  a patient is thought to demonstrate transference when expressing  feelings toward the therapist that appear to be based on the patient’s  past feel...

Psychotherapist Harriet Fraad and Substance Abuse Councillor Ikoi discuss the desperate mental health situation in the USA, personal responsibility, 'bad choices', Nationalism and what being an American actually means. Harriet’s other shows: WBAI Interpersonal Update (Wednesdays): https://wbai.org/program.php?program=431 Capitalism Hits Home: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1W...