The Third Mind: Recent Episodes
Aruna Gopakumar
Welcome to "The Third Mind" - A podcast that examines the world of supervision in transactional analysis psychotherapy.
I am Aruna Gopakumar, a provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. In each episode, we present a supervision session – a dialogue between a therapist and supervisor where the therapist reflects on their lived experience with a client. Therapists talk about their questions, stuckness, mistakes and ethical dilemmas and think together with me about them. Each session is followed by a discussion with other psychotherapy trainees, to apply theory to practice.
Often a client may share something in passing that creates some emotions in you. You wonder how what the client has shared is significant for your work. How do you bring it up with your client? What is your remit as a therapist? Apart from dealing with these questions, this episode highlights inner conflicts that can be created for therapists when their values differ from those of their clients, and what they can do about it
In this episode, therapists talk about how their unconscious identification with the client can impact the therapeutic relationship. We also explore different meanings of the word "diagnosis".
This episode is about therapists being mindful about how they may go "out of their way" for clients and how that has a potential for harm. It highlights games as unconscious, bilateral processes
This episode brings to you the challenge of a therapist who unwittingly became part of a three cornered contract. It also talks about the potential for symbiotic invitations in therapy.