A different kind of grief — what true crime pods often overlook

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For years, psychologist Patricia Harney avoided true crime podcasts and documentaries. They hit too close to home.

Recently she's been testing the waters, and noticing these whodunnit shows often leave out a crucial element of the story.

This episode was first broadcast in July 2023

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0:07.9	Hey, it's Sana here.
0:09.8	Just before we begin today's episode, I want to let you know that All in the Mind is doing
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0:59.8	to hear from you. Okay, onto this week's episode. This is a really popular one from our archives,
1:05.5	and also a really moving episode. I wanted to start by talking about the true crime genre and the popularity of the
1:14.9	podcasts and documentaries about real-life murders.
1:18.7	What do you make of our obsession around that, given your experience?
1:22.6	Yeah.
1:23.7	I mean, I guess I have two thoughts come to mind.
1:26.1	One is people's imaginations are always captured by mystery.
1:31.3	And so many of these true crime podcasts and television shows are focused on sort of unsolved crimes.
1:40.4	And I think that that population of survivors is a particularly vulnerable population.
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