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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Abuse of Amouranth

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

TRIGGER WARNING: this episode has footage of extreme verbal abuse. Dr Kirk reacts to a video that Amouranth posted depicting her allegedly abusive husband.

00:00 Introduction to Amouranth
00:32 Conceptualizing
09:12 Distorting reality, escalation, & melting down
16:19 Gaslighting, abuse, & regression
27:45 Exerting power & control
33:40 Abusers in relationships
50:57 Taking back power & further abuse
1:01:47 Abusive relationships in therapy
1:06:28 Update on Amouranth

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0:00.0

Hey dessert listeners, a lot of you have been asking me to react to this video by Amor Rant,

0:05.8

I believe, as her name. I googled her on Wikipedia, it says her born, her name is Caitlin Syragusa,

0:13.2

and she is an American social media personality streamer and only fans creator. I think she's

0:19.9

mainly on Twitch, and I think this video might be triggering for people from what I understand,

0:26.0

so watch with care, let's watch my name is Dr. Kirk Honda, I'm a therapist and a professor,

0:31.2

let's see what happens. Exactly, because I'm going to let you say what you think you heard,

0:36.1

but then I'm going to say what I thought I said, but you can't answer your mind because I'm not going

0:42.4

to interrupt you. What? Okay, so according to what's being written as the title and the comments,

0:48.4

she is on a conversation with her husband, and they're having a conflict of some sort,

0:54.6

he sounds really angry, I don't know, the background on this, let's continue watching.

0:59.6

What the fuck did you just say to me? You might have said it, did it? Yes.

1:03.3

Will you leave? Because I don't say it two times. Yeah.

1:06.6

Told you, then just pack up. What are you saying to me?

1:10.7

Because I, are you listening? You just said something really fucking mean.

1:16.0

Oh yeah, I did, because you didn't, and did you even listen to what I said? What was the condition?

1:20.8

I don't remember. Exactly. See, I said, I'm going to let you say what you think you heard.

1:26.4

Then what you're done, I'm going to say what I said.

1:30.1

All right, it's hard for me to know what's happening. I can never know what is happening just

1:36.2

from a snippet of someone's relationship. So I don't know, I'm guessing we'll get some more

1:41.3

data moving forward, but just some initial observations. I think she knows that she's recording,

1:47.9

but for sure, I don't think he knows that he's being recorded and that this is going out to the world.

1:53.1

And then his tone of voice, we can think about tone of voice as a part of emotional content and

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