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Decoding the Gurus

Dr. K (Part 3): Therapeutic Non-Therapy

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 269 minutes

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Summary

Join Matt and Chris as they conclude their deep dive into the content of Dr. K, the streaming psychiatrist behind Healthy Gamer GG. In previous episodes, they explored his promotion of Ayurvedic medicine and his use of the rhetorical strategies often seen in Complementary and Alternative Medicine spaces. This time, they tackle his more controversial work: the (non)therapy sessions with influencers, focusing particularly on his challenging and controversial conversation with the late streamer Reckful.

The episode considers how Dr. K navigates the boundaries between professional therapy and public conversation, examines his response to an official reprimand from his governing body, and questions whether his justifications withstand scrutiny.

Matt and Chris critically assess the validity of legalistic defences, the ethics of publicly streaming sensitive conversations with vulnerable individuals, and broader concerns about mixing mental health care with entertainment.

It's a lengthy episode and features discussions on patient-therapist power dynamics, definitional debates, and the complexities surrounding regulatory oversight and professional/general ethics.

We warn you this is not a very light episode and deals with sensitive issues related to suicide and mental health.

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's the podcast where an anthropologist and a psychologist

0:29.7

listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about.

0:34.8

I'm Matt Brown with me is Chris Kavanaugh. He's the anthropologist. I'm the psychologist.

0:40.2

He is the Cassius to my Brutus. That's how I've always thought of him. You get that reference Chris? You get that reference?

0:47.2

Cassius Clay, yeah the boxer he was a yeah, Mohammed Ali I get it. No, no, no, you don't get it. But that's okay. That's okay. I knew he was

0:55.4

named after that Cassius wasn't he? The one that killed Julius is of named after the

1:01.5

boxer? No, I mean, Mohammed Ali was probably named after his original name.

1:07.6

Is that not likely?

1:10.0

Well, look, that's all right. I organized a spare. I organized a follow because I knew I knew that cultural reference would be over your head.

1:20.0

So with me is Chris Kavanaugh, the tobacco to my hand solo.

1:25.0

I got that one.

1:26.0

Star Wars.

1:28.0

Yeah.

1:29.0

I meant to say Star Trek and then annoy people, but too late, too late too late yeah that's fine I'm jubaca that's about accurate

1:37.2

I'm hairy enough to be chubaca that's so I couldn't buy yeah naturally I am naturally but I maintain my physique with various

1:46.1

portions and shaving apparatus so this is this is not natural mat this fierce this is a

1:52.0

sculpted perfection from, you know, raw materials, rough,

1:57.5

raw Irish salt of the earth materials crafted into to this massage.

2:03.0

Well, we'll all fairness, we probably have the same matter here, just yours is distributed

2:08.1

all over your face and mine is all at the top, like a carrot. That's right, like a carrot that has got its leaves grown out too far and they've wilt it in the sun.

2:20.0

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

2:22.0

All white, white and dry. Yeah, yeah, so you know, this is something no mat. I know Bantor isn't allowed in these episodes anymore. No, no, no, It's going to end very soon. Don't worry.

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