The Psychotic Break

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another episode of The Psychotic Break, where Madey and Kimi break into the controversial opinions of pseudoscience, specifically psychics. Listen in as Kimi and Madey discuss their beliefs on if it is real or a hoax. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  On this episode, Madey and Kimi finish The Office psychoanalysis from the tv show psychoanalysis mini series.  Btw Kimi gets cut off in the last 3 minutes but she is an editing goddess because you can barely tell. Check out The Psychotic Break's new website and merch:  https://the-psychotic-break.vercel.app

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  On this episode, Madey and Kimi return to the Disorders series by addressing ADHD including symptoms, types, and 'treatments' with examples from their peers' lives.  Check out The Psychotic Breaks website to connect and for merch: https://the-psychotic-break.vercel.app

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: This topic is highly controversial, please keep in mind we are undergraduates who are reading the knowledge that is given from the media. Welcome to this week's episode of The Psychotic Break!  On this episode Madey and Kimi analyze the Heard v. Depp defamation case. Madey and Kimi look at the alleged abuse from both parties and attempt to understand their roots p...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  This week Madey and Kimi explain the concept of locus of control including: internal and external and Carol Dweck's growth and fixed mindset.  Check out our new website! https://the-psychotic-break.vercel.app/ If you haven't already, vote on your listener name! Breakers is in the lead! https://forms.gle/8YQRRGuoKejC4bds9

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break! In today's episode, Madey and Kimi psychoanalyze a tv show triumph: The Office. Listen in as Kimi and Madey take on the most critical characters of the show in Part 1 of this analysis! Please let us know what you listeners want to be called! https://forms.gle/Wv1Mt3ZtVTwNnTmF9

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: We are undergraduate students and this is heavily opinionated, if you have any thoughts or feelings please join the conversation.  Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  On this episode Kimi and Madey discuss the differences between the ideas of self care and mental health care. Listen in as Madey and Kimi compare and contrast, as well as, digress and confuse themselves...

Send us Fan Mail The Psychotic Break presents a very informative and insightful episode on Stereotype Threat. Learn about how stereotypes may subliminally influence your performance in society! Instagram:  @thepsychoticbreak.pod 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  We are kicking off season 4 with one of the Greats. This Friday's episode is a short but sweet commentary on Gordon Allport's personality trait theory as Madey and Kimi break down the three trait categories. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the finale of Season 3!  In this episode, Madey and Kimi discuss the idea of Happiness following UC Berkeley's course, Happiness Psychology. This episode is a nice connection to our very first episode, Positivity. In this episode, Madey and Kimi describe happiness beyond an emotion and, as Madey put best, as a "tangible" concept. Stay tuned as we enter Se...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  Continuing with therapies, Madey and Kimi discuss alternative and holistic therapies such as horse, quantum, cryogenic, and much more!

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  In this episode, Madey and Kimi explain Piaget's schemas. Listen in as Madey and Kimi digress into understanding how we think and learn about the world. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  The long awaited episode has come to fruition, on this episode Madey and Kimi do dream analysis! Listen in as Madey and Kimi bring you 4 dreams and 4 chaotic analyses.  Please send us more of your dreams! We promise to keep you anonymous unless you say otherwise. Anonymous Dream Submission Form: https://forms.gle/tBLzZdHfKewirtj86

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome Welcome!  This week on The Psychotic Break Madey and Kimi explain reinforcement. From the schedules, best practices, neurons, and operant conditioning this episode holds a ton of information. Listen in and stay tuned, unnamed pod-listeners!

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  This week Madey and Kimi discuss the three stages of Kohlerg's Theory of Moral Development. In this episode, stay tuned for a ton of moral digressions and feel free to join the conversation with your own answers to these moral qualms.  There's a lot of great moral dilemmas posed in the beginning, but you can skip to 13:36 to get righ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  This week Madey and Kimi do a return on memory through the discussion of the stages of memory and identifying semantic versus episodic memory. Prepared to be scared of your own brain and the unknown! Here's the paper Madey mentioned about place cells/neurons: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420313027 Here's...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Madey does not have bipolar disorder.  Welcome back to The Psychotic Break! This week Madey and Kimi delve into bipolar disorder including the misconceptions, facts, definitions and much more. Tune in to listen to the first of the disorders unpacked by Kimi and Madey. The Bipolar type Madey and Kimi cannot say is called 'Cyclothymic'.  

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  Have you been on dating apps like Bumble and Hinge? Well on this episode Madey and Kimi bring back the social media series with an episode on online dating. Join Kimi and Madey as they discuss their experiences and opinions on the popular dating apps buzzing around our modern world. 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to this week's episode of The Psychotic Break!  Post the Valentine's day special, Madey and Kimi discussed the relaxing and intrapersonal art of mediation. Kimi and Madey delve into the different forms, techniques, and their own experiences on using mediation in their own lives. 

Send us Fan Mail Happy Valentine's Day from The Psychotic Break!  For this love themed holiday, Madey and Kimi look at Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Love. Kimi and Madey will deep dive into the different combinations of relationships and their own desires for a partner. Check it out and spread the love!

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  This Friday, Madey and Kimi continue their Experiment Mini Series by looking at Dr. Stanley Milgram's Shock Experiment. Listen in as Kimi and Madey digress about their own experience with deception in labs and the possible ways this experiment could be performed today.

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: This is an open discussion about religion, specifically Catholicism/Christianity. If you're uncomfortable feel free to dismiss this episode, or join the conversation.  Welcome back to The Psychotic Break! This week, Madey and Kimi talk about religion in light of psychology. Specifically they dive into the decrease of faith in the youth, Freud, and the benefits of...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Welcome Back to The Psychotic Break! This week, Madey and Kimi have taken on a very difficult topic: Jungian Archetypes. Ever heard of the collective unconscious? This is a concept proposed by Carl Jung that states each human being is connected by shared experiences and ideals of the past. These shared ideals take the form of archetypes or images/patterns of who we are o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Psychotic Break!  On this Friday, Madey and Kimi take the listener's back in time to break down the multiple branches of Psychology. This is a long overdue episode to help create an understanding of the fields, professions, and their research emphases.  Instagram:  @thepsychoticbreak.pod