The Psychology of Josh Powell (Chapter 5 - Crisis)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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May 29, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deservant Listeners, this is Chapter 5 and our deep dive on Josh Powell and the disappearance of Susan Powell. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's get into it, what do you say, Burrill? Let's do it. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the psychology and Seattle |
| 0:13.6 | podcast. I'm your host Dr. Kirk Honda I'm a therapist and a professor and |
| 0:17.5 | Burto is wearing merch from the podcast. My name is Umberto Kastagnan |
| 0:22.4 | and I usually help file |
| 0:25.0 | find Waldo. |
| 0:26.3 | So let's do a recap of what we've already established |
| 0:31.8 | in the previous four chapters. |
| 0:33.2 | It's just briefly. |
| 0:34.8 | So Josh Powell, childhood, born 1976, Mormon family, |
| 0:40.7 | Pacific Northwest area, five kids in the family including Josh, Josh is the second. |
| 0:46.2 | Born, first son, the parents fought a lot. |
| 0:49.7 | He was targeted, particularly by Stephen the father with abuse the father was |
| 0:54.7 | violent but also conversely overly permissive with the kids Stephen the father |
| 1:00.8 | also exposed the three sons to a lot of pornography apparently and his ideology was very anti establishment it seems like kind of generally right and |
| 1:10.8 | Anti Mormon as well which the parents fought a lot about. |
| 1:14.0 | He, Josh, was possibly rejected by his mother as a theme in the parenting and the relationship. |
| 1:22.0 | It's hard to say, I don't want to throw the mom under the bus, but there's some minor evidence of that. |
| 1:28.0 | At the very least, the abuse that Stephen put him through was massive. It can't be overstated, just how it would feel to be a child, |
| 1:39.0 | to be routinely yelled at and hit and humiliated and particularly notice that you're the one being targeted. |
| 1:48.8 | And you know when you're a kid, you don't have any resources to conceptualize it to say like well this isn't my fault |
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