Psychic Retreats (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. I thought I would talk about the psychoanalytic concept called psychic retreats. |
| 0:07.3 | I know that it sounds like a retreat for psychics, you know, like a bunch of psychics who can talk with the dead. |
| 0:16.5 | They all get together at a resort somewhere near, near near near near some water and they they you know |
| 0:24.7 | they do trust falls and and that kind of thing but so psychic retreat is is not that it's actually |
| 0:30.6 | something else but i'll get into that all right well this is the psychology in seattle podcast |
| 0:34.1 | i'm your host dr kirk honda I am a professor and a therapist. So psychic |
| 0:41.0 | retreats came to my attention for the podcast because patron Charlotte wrote in. If you want |
| 0:48.2 | your emails to be read online, people, you got to become a patron of the podcast because patrons |
| 0:53.2 | get preferred treatment when |
| 0:55.1 | it comes to this sort of thing but anyway so patron charlotte rodent she says i am a student at a |
| 1:01.2 | university in bristol uk studying the to be a she's studying professional doctorate of counseling |
| 1:10.7 | psychology i worded that very wrongly but anyway She's studying professional doctorate of counseling psychology. |
| 1:11.9 | I worded that very wrongly. |
| 1:14.2 | But anyway, she says, I recently had a lecture on psychic retreats, which is a pathological |
| 1:21.4 | organization named and identified by John Steiner. |
| 1:25.0 | I wondered if you knew anything about this and could you talk about it for a bit. |
| 1:31.3 | I must admit, I found the whole idea a little brain frying. Brain frying. Yeah, it's a psychoanalytic |
| 1:40.7 | ideas are all frying of the brain. So, you know, and I can absolutely relate to that. |
| 1:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.0 | So John Steiner first wrote about it in the 1990s, I think. |
| 1:52.8 | He was writing about this idea of psychic retreat, meaning that your mind retreats |
| 2:00.6 | are withdraws. You know, you try to withdraw from other people. |
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