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Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast

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Ever wonder why anxious people love horror movies? Curious about how having the daylights scared out of you can help you feel better? Hosts Jenn Adams, Lara Unnerstall, and therapist Mike Snoonian break it down (and back it up with academic research) on Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast. Each month, we’ll take an in-depth look at a topic in the mental health field like anxiety, PTSD, and toxic relationships. For our bi-weekly episodes, we’ll pair topics with a horror film and analyze its plot and characters through the lens of mental health. We’ll also discuss our own mental health exp

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#29
all-time peak
26
days in the top 50 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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Attachment Theory / M3GAN (2023) with Rachel Reeves and Sally Hourigan

This week Mike is joined by Rachel Reeves (the Losers’ Club, The Pod & The Pendulum) and voice actor Sally Hourigan to talk about the viral sensation that danced into our

Apr 6 2023
1 h 50 min

A Conversation with Kay Lynch (Salem Horror Fest)

This week Mike is joined by Kay Lynch. She's the founder and program director of the Salem Horror Festival which is returning this April for two weekends in lovely, sceni

Mar 23 2023
57 min

Sibling Rivalry / Basket Case (1982) with Nichole Goble

This week Mike is joined once again by Nichole Goble of the Bodies of Horror podcast to discuss the 1982 exploitation and cult classic Basket Case directed by Frank Henne

Mar 16 2023
1 h 49 min

Comfort Horror / You Are Not My Mother (2021) with Ygraine Hackett-Cantabara

This week Mike is joined by Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana (Ghouls’ magazine, What A Scream pod, Moving Pictures Film Club) to talk about the 2022 psychological horror from I

Mar 9 2023
1 h 11 min

Sibling Rivalry / What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) with Taffeta V

This week brings a new month and a new topic. What better way to kick off the topic of sibling rivalry with a classic of old world Hollywood that featured one of the most

Mar 2 2023
2 h 16 min

Comfort Horror / The Wolf Man (1941) with Lindsay Moore

Even a pod who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a Comfort Horror episode on Universal Monsters when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is b

Feb 23 2023
1 h 41 min

Aging and Relationships / X (2022) with Dan Pfleegor and Nichole Goble

This week Mike is joined by Dan Pfleegor (Losers’ Club) and Nichole Goble (Bodies of Horror) to talk To West’s X. This mashup of Boogie Nights And The Texas Chain Saw Mas

Feb 16 2023
1 h 57 min

New Relationship Energy / An American Werewolf in London (1981) with Rebecca McCallum

This week, Mike talks about his favorite horror movie of all time when he discusses 1981’s An American werewolf in London, written and directed by John Landis. Once deeme

Feb 9 2023
2 h 04 min

Bad Romance / Possession (1981) with Jessica Scott and Taffeta V.

We’re kicking off bad romance and couples issues month with one of the greatest stories about a marriage going up in flames ever told. To try to relay the events of this

Feb 2 2023
2 h 13 min

Discomfort Horror / Eden Lake (2008) with Joe Lipsett

This week Mike is joined by the wonderful Joe Lipsett (Horror Queers, Anatomy of a Scream podcast network) for a discomfort horror movie. We’re packing our tents and slee

Jan 26 2023
1 h 44 min

COVID / Host (2020) with Gena Radcliffe, Nichole Goble, and Terry Mesnard

During the height of lockdowns and uncertainty in the summer of 2020, a little movie hit Shudder. New movies hit the streaming service all the time, but this was a big de

Jan 19 2023
1 h 33 min

Comfort Horror / Friday the 13th Part 2 w Andy Mitton

This week we have a very special episode as Mike is joined by director Andy Mitton (The Harbinger, yellowbrickroad, The Witch in the Window) to talk about his go-to slash

Jan 12 2023
1 h 25 min

COVID / The Harbinger (2022) with Jessica Scott and Rachel Reeves

It’s a new month and a new year, which means a brand new topic. As we enter the third year of living through the pandemic, Mike is joined by Jessica Scott and Rachel Reev

Jan 5 2023
1 h 41 min

Good For Her Horror / Dolores Claiborne (1995) and Gerald’s Game (2017)

Sometimes you have to be a fifth Thursday episode to survive... Sometimes, being a pod, is all a woman has to hang onto.  Joe Lipsett and Gena Radcliffe join Jenn for a

Dec 29 2022
2 h 04 min

Archetypes / The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

This we offer in humility and fear. For the blessed peace of your eternal listening. An episode on archetypes in The Cabin in the Woods. As it ever was. Are we on speake

Dec 22 2022
2 h 00 min

Agoraphobia / The Battery (2012)

Help us find the keys and meet us in the orchard for a one pitch episode on Agoraphobia in Jeremy Gardner’s The Battery. Those headphones are gonna get us killed. Follo

Dec 15 2022
2 h 04 min

Grief and Suicide / The Night House (2020)

Meet us at the secret house across the lake for an episode on grief and suicide in David Bruckner’s The Night House. You were right. There is podcast. Podcast is after y

Dec 8 2022
1 h 40 min

Comfort Horror / Barbarian (2022)

Do we look like some kind of monster? By our baby and join us for a comfort horror episode on Barbarian. Why is it always the pods who get their hearts ripped out in th

Dec 1 2022
1 h 24 min

Comfort Horror / Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Lace your boots up kiddies and meet us in the apple orchard for a comfort horror episode on Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. It’s kind of like the birth canal.

Nov 17 2022
1 h 31 min

Kink / Hellraiser (1987)

The pod, you opened it, we came. Join us in exploring the further regions of experience as we talk about pleasure, pain, and everything that lies in between. Come to Dadd

Nov 10 2022
1 h 51 min

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