
Psyche
A psychotherapist explores topics relating to psychotherapy, philosophy, culture, and religion.
Latest episodes

Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 2min
Dan Koch: Why Religion?
Dan Koch is the host of You Have Permission podcast. He is working towards his doctorate in counseling psychology at Northwest University in Kirkland, WA. He focuses specifically on spiritual abuse. His Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale was published in May 2022 in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dan is most interested in overlapping questions and interactions between psychology and religion/spirituality. Email: dancoke@gmail.comInstagram: @dancokeTwitter: @dankoch
In this conversation, we explore Dan's spiritual and philosophical background as well as his honest thoughts on religion today.

Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 13min
Dr. David Congdon: Karl Barth & Polyamory
David is an author, speaker, and scholar working in the area of theology and culture. He is senior editor at University Press of Kansas, where he oversees the publishing program in political science, law, US history, Native American and Indigenous studies, environmental studies, American studies, and religion.
Academically, he maintains an active research and publishing program. His latest book is Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views, coming out in November 2023 from Baker Academic.
Episode Highlights:
Traditional theological (Christian) approaches to romantic relationships
Karl Barth's theological project
David's theological and ethical approach to polyamory
Karl Barth's "V" relationship with Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Nelly Hoffman
Much more!

Jun 23, 2023 • 1h 11min
Dr. Steven Knepper: Saving Beauty
Steven Knepper is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond.
We explore Byung-Chul Han's book Saving Beauty.
Elisabeth Schilling joins us for the conversation!

Jun 2, 2023 • 1h 13min
Dr. Edward S. Casey: Turning Emotion Inside Out
Dr. Edward S Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, was the president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) from 2009-10, and he was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University for a decade. He works in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. He obtained his doctorate at Northwestern University in 1967 and has taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University.His recent research includes investigations into place and space; landscape painting and maps as modes of representation; ethics and the other; feeling and emotion; philosophy of perception (with special attention to the role of the glance); the nature of edges.
He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond The Subject.
Episode Highlights:
A philosophical and psychological reflection on the migration crisis
Ed's philosophical & psychological journey
Derrida & hospitality
James Hillman
a radical exploration of emotionality
Much more!

May 26, 2023 • 1h 15min
Acid Horizon (Craig): Minor Masculinities
Craig is producer and host of Acid Horizon podcast and creater of The Philosopher's Tarot. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod
Episode Highlights:
Craig's journey into philosophy
Minor masculinities (Deleuze & Guattari)
Klossowski, Nietzsche & Eternal Return
James Hillman on masculinity
Puer & Senex archetype
Much more!
James Hillman Senex & Puer Lectures
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May 19, 2023 • 51min
Dr. AnaLouise Keating: Nepantla
Dr. AnaLouise Keating is a professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University. She has authored multiple books, essays, and edited collections primarily focused on transformation studies, U.S. women-of-color theories, Gloria Anzaldúa and pedagogy.
Episode Highlights:
Intellectual & spiritual development
Ralph Waldo Emerson's epistemology
Gloria Anzaldúa
James Hillman, Jeffrey Kripal and other thinkers
Yin yoga & Astrology
Much more!

May 12, 2023 • 49min
Dr. Chris Hoff: The Radical Therapist
Chris Hoff is a therapist and podcaster working out of California. He is also a practicing Zen Buddhist.
Episode Highlights:
Transition from business world to practicing therapy
Zen Buddhism
Liminal spaces and futuring
Philosophical influences
Building hopeful communities

May 8, 2023 • 1h 29min
Dr. Richard Boothby: The Sacred & Money
Dr. Richard Boothby, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland and author of 'Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son's Suicide', explores fascinating topics on the sacred and money. Topics include Freud & Lacan's perspective on das Ding, the development of religion, the human economy vs the market economy, and the symbolic value of money.

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Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 9min
Dr. Duane Rousselle: Where's the Unconscious?
Dr. Duane Rousselle, Canadian sociological theorist and Lacanian psychoanalyst, discusses the unconscious, society, love, anarchism, activism, the decline of social bonds, alternatives to capitalism, and the allure of freedom in a free flowing conversation.

Apr 24, 2023 • 50min
Dr. Wanyoung Kim: The Importance of Empathy
Dr. Wanyoung Kim is a skilled UX/UI and web designer, editor, researcher, web developer, and translator based in the United States and United Kingdom. She combines her knowledge and training of psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and technology as an interdisciplinary scholar, researcher, and lecturer. As a computer programmer, she is versed in a variety of programming frameworks and languages. As a product designer, she is an expert at using design software. She is a certified translator of Spanish, French, German, and Korean, and an experienced academic copy editor who has worked with numerous publications. She has authored two books so far and is publishing a third. Wanyoung's forthcoming book translation with St. Mary's University Press in London is St John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience by French scholar Jean Baruzi.
Wanyoung was educated in the United States, Switzerland, and Denmark. Her alma maters include Purdue University, The New School for Social Research, The European Graduate School, Nucamp Coding Boot Camp, and Shecodes. She has been a researcher at the Global Center for Advanced Studies and the New Centre for Research and Practice. She holds a PhD and MA in Philosophy, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Clinical Psychology. She is the Website Manager for the European Journal of Psychoanalysis and guest lecturer in the Theology and Communications departments at St Mary's University Twickenham. She runs an editing and academic consulting business, KM Professional Services, with her husband, Dr. Mark G. Murphy.
Episode Highlights:
Her educational journey
Her Buddhist father and Christian mother
Translating St John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience by French scholar Jean Baruzi
Her theological influences
The importance of empathy
Much more!