Saying the Unsaid
2 friends discussing the surprising invitations, terrors, replications, possibilities and intimacy of process groups.
Episodes
54 episodes
CALLING A SPADE A SPADE
Vanessa + Sarah talk about the art of Joining and the invitation to call a spade a spade in process groups.
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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20:34
THE VENN DIAGRAM OF PARENTING AND LEADING GROUPS
Vanessa + Sarah share some reflections on the similarities of good parenting and good group leading.
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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22:17
PROCESS GROUP AS MID-CALF-BIRTH AND/OR MID-TATTOO
Vanessa + Sarah check in about their personal current experiences as members of process groups.
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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22:59
ON MENDING: VANESSA'S SURGEON'S UPDATE AND GROUP
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the idea of mending as it pertains to group, and Vanessa gives an update on her recovery from her accident.
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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24:10
PLAYDOUGH, LENT, CHOCOLATE-COVERED STRAWBERRIES AND OTHER WAYS TO STAND ON YOUR HEAD
Vanessa + Sarah talk about group process as playing with play-dough, and share some imaginations around the invitations of Lent.
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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24:20
WE CAN DO EASY THINGS, aka FOLLOW THE GRAIN OF OUR WOOD, PART II
Sarah + Vanessa talk more about the permission to be ourselves and to follow the grain of our wood, professionally and personally.
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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20:10
WE CAN DO EASY THINGS, PART I
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the how sometimes choosing pleasure and ease is just what the doctor ordered.
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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23:21
AGGRESSION AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY
Vanessa and Sarah talk about the energizing quality of aggression.
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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20:02
AGGRESSION IN GROUPS: BETTER OUT(WARD) THAN IN(WARD)
Vanessa + Sarah discuss the Aaron Black's 2017 article "On Attacking and Being Attacked in Group Psychotherapy" and the utility of expressed aggression in groups.
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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22:29
ON WORKING WITH DREAMS
Sarah + Vanessa talk about one of many approaches to working with dreams, and gratitude for the composting/metabolizing function of the unconscious.
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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19:48
THE HIGHEST FORM OF PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK IS PLAY
Sarah shares with Vanessa some of the impact of psychoanalyst Dr. David Ramirez on the psychoanalytic community; David was the first to teach her that the highest form of psychoanalysis is Play.
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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20:23
BEGINNING LIKE AN OTTER
Vanessa and Sarah discuss maxims for a New Year.
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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24:55
ENDINGS: POSSIBLE INVITATIONS, POSSIBLE REGRETS
At the close of the year, Vanessa + Sarah talk about group in relation to endings, and variations of ending well.
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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22:47
THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR; GROUP AS SOLSTICE
Vanessa + Sarah reflect on the idea of the longest day of the year, the dark invitations of group, a Gerald May quote on savoring life-juice, and a poem titled, "Prayer at Winter Solstice" by acclaimed poet Dana Gioia.
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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19:55
PROCESS GROUP: NOT EVERYONE THINKS THIS SOUNDS FUN
Sarah + Vanessa share a conversation they recorded earlier this year but never published on: Process Group as Comparably Uncomfortable to Acting Game and/or Ecstatic Dance.
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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23:30
A WISH TO BUILD A DREAM ON: AKA, THE UTILITY OF WISH AND EVEN, POSSIBLY, JEALOUSY
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the value of exploring wishes and jealousy as a way to discover what we might be longing for.
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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21:23
A MODERN ANALYTIC TAKE ON GROUP
Vanessa + Sarah discuss Ronnie Levine's (2017) article, A Modern Psychoanalytic Perspective on Group Therapy.
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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20:40
EROTIC TRANSFERENCE, KEEPING IT IN THE LAB (PART III OF III)
Vanessa + Sarah share a few more thoughts about the invitations of exploring erotic transference in group and life. (PART III.)
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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20:32
THE NECESSARY GRIEF OF EROTIC TRANSFERENCE (PART II OF III)
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the grief-side of longing.
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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19:40
THE UTILITY OF EROTIC TRANSFERENCES, AKA CRUSHES (PART I of III)
Sarah + Vanessa begin to describe some of the invitations of exploring erotic transference in therapy and in group.
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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22:19
LEARNING TO SAY "NO"; aka RETIRING FROM SUCKING DICK (SORRY FOR THE LANGUAGE, MOM!)
Sarah + Vanessa talk about their particular (though not unique) need to learn to say No.
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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23:09
THE CHARISMATIC LEADER: ASSET OR LIABILITY?
Sarah + Vanessa discuss their association to the (1981) article by Rutan and Rice: The Charismatic Leader: Asset or Liability?
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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23:13
SAYING THE UNSAID WHEN THE OTHER DOESN'T LISTEN
Sarah + Vanessa try to answer the question: how do you Say the Unsaid when the Other won't listen?
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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19:49
HOW PROCESS GROUPS: SLUG HUGS AND FAKING IT TIL YOU MAKE IT
Vanessa + Sarah reflect on one year of leading process groups, tolerating the aggression and gift of Slug Hugs, the invitation of faking it until you make it, and the imperative to make mountains out of molehills.
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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22:37