The Psychology of The Flight Attendant

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dr. Kirk and Humberto discuss the psychopathology presented in “The Flight Attendant” on HBO.

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0:00.0	So, Burdo, the new TV show on HBO called The Flight Attendant out of 10, what do you give it?
0:07.3	I give it on 8. Wow, you liked it a lot more than I did. I gave it a 6. I'd give the first half
0:14.8	a solid 7, maybe an 8, but the last half I didn't like, but let's get into that today.
0:20.7	We're going to talk about the psychology of the show first and then we'll get into our
0:24.3	opinions of how the show went. So, there's lots to say about the psychology of this show.
0:30.4	And whenever I'm looking at psychological depictions of therapy or conditions, I'm always looking
0:35.5	for the following things. I'm looking for accuracy. Did the show accurately depict a psychological
0:43.6	condition or what therapy looks like? Is it stigmatizing? Does it help the plot or is it just
0:50.6	used as a cheap way of moving the plot forward? So, let's get into it here. Let's talk about
0:57.4	what did we see? What did you see, Burdo, in terms of psychology in this show? Let's talk about that
1:04.7	first. Okay. And spoiler alert, right? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to spoil the whole thing, yeah.
1:10.9	Spoil, spoil. Yeah, well, I mean, the show does something where at first, I thought they were
1:17.6	going to do in a superficial way, but they essentially present what was a childhood, extremely
1:24.8	traumatic, not only an extremely traumatic event, which was the tragic car crash where her father
1:32.3	dies because they're drinking, he's drinking and he's giving her drinks and then he crashes.
1:37.1	But also, really, the lead up to that, which was a lot of abuse inflicted by her father to both
1:43.7	herself and his kid, his son, emotional, mental abuse, at least, and maybe some physical abuse
1:52.6	towards the son. And so, like all this, presented where she had completely different
2:00.0	memories, or at least she told herself she did. And yet, it sort of defined her personality and her
2:07.0	reactions to present day trauma that was happening to her and present day emergencies. And so,
2:14.8	that was really interesting, because they were basically showing us her discover. It was almost
2:19.6	like she was in therapy. The length of the series was her in therapy, slowly discovering why she
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