Interpersonal Therapy (Deep Dive) (2021 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving Listeners, today's episode is going to be a deep dive on interpersonal therapy. |
| 0:06.2 | And this episode is going to be for patrons only. So if you want to listen to this, you have to |
| 0:11.2 | become a patron of the podcast on patreon.com. So for years now, I've been calling myself an interpersonal |
| 0:19.8 | therapist. I mean, really, when people ask me what theory I use, I've been calling myself an interpersonal therapist. I mean, really, when people |
| 0:23.1 | ask me what theory I use, I'll say, well, I integrate several theories. You know, I integrate |
| 0:28.9 | many, many theories, actually. I love theory, and I find that most, if not all theories, have value. |
| 0:37.1 | And I find that each of them addresses a |
| 0:40.0 | different corner of psychology and psychotherapy. And so I like to integrate and blend all of |
| 0:47.5 | them depending on the situation. But when pressed, if someone said, okay, well, if you had to pick |
| 0:51.9 | one, what would it be? For the past, I don't know, a number of years, I've been saying interpersonal. And thus, I've been wanting to work on this deep dive for a long time. I have been working on this deep dive for years, actually. I mean, I've been working on it more in earnest over the past, you know, three or four months or something. But I've been wanting to do this |
| 1:12.2 | episode for a long time. So I decided to sit down a few months ago and really start |
| 1:16.9 | researching all the different histories and the literature and the research and all the different |
| 1:24.4 | contributors to interpersonal therapy. |
| 1:36.3 | And as I was working on my notes, I started realizing, wait, I don't know if, am I really an interpersonal therapist? Maybe I didn't understand interpersonal therapy the way that it really is. |
| 1:45.0 | And it started to frustrate me because I thought, |
| 1:48.0 | have I been calling myself something that isn't true this whole time? |
| 1:52.0 | Have I been advertising myself as something that's false or simplistic or something? |
| 1:58.0 | And I found that the word interpersonal in the field of psychotherapy |
| 2:02.3 | gets used in a lot of different ways. And at a certain point, I started to get really discouraged |
| 2:08.5 | as I was working on this deep dive. I started thinking, how do I talk about something that I'm not |
| 2:15.9 | that into, but I'm supposed to act like I'm that |
| 2:18.1 | into? And then I started looking into it further, and I started realizing that actually there's a |
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