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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Psychology of Josh Powell (Chapter 1 - Exposure)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kirk Honda and Humberto provide a deep dive on the tragic disappearance of Susan Powell, along with Josh’s suicide, the children’s murder, and Josh’s father’s depravity.

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00:00 Trigger warnings & a brief summary
18:58 Early lives of Josh & Susan Powell
37:58 Boundaries with children

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May 20, 2024

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0:00.0

Hey, Disturman listeners, so the patrons asked us to do a deep dive on the story of Josh Powell.

0:08.0

And I have done a lot of research.

0:12.0

And so first I have a fairly long introduction,

0:15.6

Burto, if you'll allow it.

0:18.2

I will stand in your way as much as I can.

0:21.6

So first off, Trigger Warning, throughout this series we're going to talk about

0:25.3

spousal abuse stalking sexual abuse murder including the murder of

0:32.3

small children.

0:33.7

There will be long discussions on these topics and I am also going to provide some of the relevant

0:40.8

details about these crimes. so if you have trauma

0:44.9

reactivity in these areas either don't listen honestly or talk to your

0:51.2

therapist before listening and also for everybody take breaks to check in with

0:55.9

yourself as we go.

0:58.7

So I want to set the scene because I've been talking with people about what I've been up to lately.

1:07.0

People say, oh, what have you been up to?

1:08.0

I was like, oh, I've just been investigating or researching or doing a deep dive on the story of Josh Powell.

1:15.0

And I find that a lot of people, even local people,

1:18.0

haven't heard of it or they don't remember it.

1:21.0

So I want to set the scene. I'm going to skip to the end of the story and then once I'm done with that we'll start from the beginning just so y'all know where this ends up. So it's February 5th, 2012 Super Bowl Sunday, just as the game is about to start, it's just after noon.

1:41.2

A social worker pulls up to a house in her personal car. She's at work. She's

1:47.8

bringing two young boys age five and seven, name Braden and Charlie respectively. She's bringing them for a

1:56.2

supervised visit to their father's house in Graham Washington which is about

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