54: What's Up With Don Draper?

Therapy Chat

Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

Social Sciences, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Therapy Chat! In today’s episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C discusses the AMC drama “Mad Men.” If you are a fan of the show, you’ll want to listen and if you haven’t watched it before, maybe you will be intrigued to check it out. Just a warning, though, this episode contains some spoilers so if you don’t want to know some of the important plot points, maybe you should watch the show first and come back to this episode later. Laura is a trauma therapist, and she talks about how the main character of Mad Men, Don Draper, exhibits characteristics common in survivors of childhood abuse trauma. Actor Jon Hamm and show creator Matthew Weiner masterfully characterize a man who is tormented by his inner demons. Laura describes how the traumatic experiences of Don Draper’s childhood could have led to him becoming the adult we meet in the first episode of the series, and what someone who has these symptoms now can do to get help. Laura explains some of the symptoms commonly experienced by survivors of childhood abuse and neglect and lists some of the therapeutic techniques which can be effective in healing childhood trauma. Laura also references past episode of Therapy Chat with more information on the subjects of childhood abuse and the long term emotional and physical effects of childhood trauma.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Therapy Chat Episode 19 on the Epidemic of Childhood Trauma

Therapy Chat Episode 30 on Childhood Sexual Abuse

Therapy Chat Episode 26 on Using the Body to Heal Trauma with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA

Find out more about Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Find a Practitioner

Find out more about EMDR and Find a Practitioner

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0:00.0	Therapy Chat Podcast, Episode 54.
0:04.5	This is the Therapy Chat Podcast.
0:07.7	The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional.
0:16.3	And now, here's Laura Reagan, L-C-S-WWC, with today's episode.
0:35.3	Hi, welcome back to therapy chat. This is your host, Laura Reagan, LCSWC. In today's episode,
0:45.0	I'm going to talk about something in popular culture, a TV show called Mad Men, which is on AMC.
0:55.4	Mad Men's not on anymore, but you can still watch episodes of it through various places.
1:01.9	And I don't want to say exactly where it because I'm not sure.
1:05.2	I think it depends on when you're listening to this.
1:09.0	I first caught a lot of the past episodes on Netflix, and then I had a certain point
1:15.1	while it was still being aired that it wasn't available on Netflix, so I had to watch it
1:23.0	when it came on on AMC, but now it's not airing anymore.
1:30.9	So you have to check your local resources. If you do want to watch Mad Men, you've never watched. And if that's the case, caution, this
1:38.4	episode is going to contain some pretty important spoilers. If you haven't ever watched and you decide you want to after listening,
1:47.2	I apologize for the spoilers,
1:49.0	but I will say that I think it's still worth it because the way the characters are developed in this show is pretty amazing.
1:56.1	It's quite unusual.
1:58.8	I mean, when I first heard about Mad Men, I heard, oh, the show is all the rage.
2:06.7	Everyone's watching it.
2:07.9	And it was really about the characters are so beautiful, the fashions and sets the design of the settings where the characters are living and working are so accurate to that time period, the 50s and 60s, and the whole cultural thing of how the characters drink alcohol at work
2:37.0	and all of the sort of stereotypical 1950s and 1960s cultural norms that it represented.
2:43.6	And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, big deal.
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