# john totten (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover john totten. Page: Feed: --- ## [Episode 61: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-61-fifty-miles-of) _2026-02-25 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Dorothy Holmes joins John Totten for a live conversation at the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. As the Forum’s Hans Loewald Award recipient, Dr. Holmes reflects on her work with the Holmes Commission, the racial enactments she has observed within the psychoanalytic field, and her invitational upbringing as the granddaughter of a minister. Her family instilled in her an inclusive… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2272939922-betweenuspodcast-episode-61-fifty-miles-of.mp3) ## [Episode 60: Recognition, In Real Life](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-60-recognition-in-real-life) _2025-10-01 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Jessica Benjamin joins host John Totten for our season finale. In a wide-ranging conversation \[outlined below\], the renowned psychoanalyst and theorist reflects on her radical upbringing, the development of recognition theory, and the feminist lens through which she examines our persistent social dilemmas. Why does more civilization seem to generate more problems? Dr. Benjamin’s answer diverges… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2179574359-betweenuspodcast-episode-60-recognition-in-real-life.mp3) ## [Episode 59: Bad Faith Alone](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-59-bad-faith-alone) _2025-09-17 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Lara Sheehi was doing her job as a professor of clinical psychology when her criticism of Israel catapulted her into uninvited infamy. Bad faith accusations of antisemitism, reliant on obfuscating political dissent with bigotry led to her investigation while reports from news outlets led to her being disinvited from speaking engagements, stalked, and protested. Despite a letter of support from… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2171686752-betweenuspodcast-episode-59-bad-faith-alone.mp3) ## [Episode 58: This Machine Kills Fascism](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-58-this-machine-kills-fascism) _2025-09-03 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Sue Grand joins us for a conversation about hatred and totalitarianism. A psychoanalyst who has spent decades studying trauma and the ways evil reproduces across history, Grand is interested in how introspection might protect us and others from our own perpetrator fragments. She challenges the assumption that traumatized people victimize others—most do not. The regeneration of harm, she argues,… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2163825252-betweenuspodcast-episode-58-this-machine-kills-fascism.mp3) ## [Episode 57: What's Mine Is Yours](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-57-whats-mine-is-yours) _2025-08-20 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Tony Bass is less concerned with building psychological metatheories than with how theory comes alive in the consulting room. From the earliest days of the Relational movement, he worked alongside Stephen Mitchell and others to shape a vision of treatment grounded in mutual influence, drawing inspiration from Ferenczi’s dialogue of unconsciouses—an approach Bass experiences as intuitive and “not… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2156196774-betweenuspodcast-episode-57-whats-mine-is-yours.mp3) ## [Episode 56: Reclaiming the Relational](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-56-reclaiming-the-relational) _2025-08-06 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Roy Barsness returns to the show to discuss his new book, which establishes a psychodynamic model of clinical supervision. Steeped in relational psychoanalytic values, this approach offers not only a new way of thinking about supervision, but also a recapitulation of how this theory informs practice in the treatment room—and life in general. By considering each case a muse for both therapist and… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2148448974-betweenuspodcast-episode-56-reclaiming-the-relational.mp3) ## [Episode 55: Dark Knight of the Soul](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-55-dark-knight-of-the-soul) _2025-07-23 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Jay Bakker joins us live from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. As the child of the famous televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jay has always been surrounded by persistent narratives—even among therapists of every stripe. The pressures of life in the limelight from an early age led him to cope through addiction, especially after his parents faced a very public downfall.… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2134907907-betweenuspodcast-episode-55-dark-knight-of-the-soul.mp3) ## [Episode 54: Everybody Stays Chill](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-54-everybody-stays-chill) _2025-07-09 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ Lynne Layton joins us for our most political conversation to date. Layton’s concept of the normative unconscious, which addresses the myriad of ways we all strive to maintain the status quo, has been influential to those who believe that the mind is shaped by social forces beyond the family. Racism and sexism play a central role, but these bigotries, that work to separate us and dominate some,… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2126930505-betweenuspodcast-episode-54-everybody-stays-chill.mp3) ## [Episode 53: What We're Born Into](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-53-what-were-born-into) _2025-06-25 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ As a child of Palestinian parents displaced to Beirut, Karim Dajani became interested in psychoanalysis at a young age. These days, he’s justifiably interested in the field’s own exiles, particularly Trigant Burrow, who theorized as early as the 1920’s that the unconscious is structured in concordance with the social world, only to be expelled from the APA shortly thereafter. Dajani explains how… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2119098435-betweenuspodcast-episode-53-what-were-born-into.mp3) ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tZHIlBLK4fqv) _2025-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Episode 52: ...The Self Is A Prison](https://soundcloud.com/betweenuspodcast/episode-52-the-self-is-a-prison) _2025-06-11 · Between Us: A Psychotherapy Podcast_ This week, we continue our conversation with Eyal Rozmarin. If belonging is a powerful force compelling us to identify with groups, it follows that our collectives must imprint themselves on the foundation of our very subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, Rozmarin paints a portrait of personhood that is always in conflict between the warm acceptance of the State, and… [Listen](https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2111301768-betweenuspodcast-episode-52-the-self-is-a-prison.mp3)