Saying the Unsaid
2 friends discussing the surprising invitations, terrors, replications, possibilities and intimacy of process groups.
Episodes
56 episodes
BONUS EPISODE: WHY WE LOATHE THE IDEA OF MARKETING
Sarah + Vanessa discuss their resistance to the idea of marketing while simultaneously wanting to promote Process Groups.
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Episode 57
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22:15
AN INTERPERSONAL APPROACH TO GROUP; FOLLOWING THE REPLICATIONS
Vanessa + Sarah have a conversation about an interpersonal approach to group, noticing and following replications, and being the canary.
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Episode 56
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21:50
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 35
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23:09