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Episode 6: Not Messing Around: The Pleasures Of Being A Mean Girl

Episode 6: Not Messing Around: The Pleasures Of Being A Mean Girl

Update: 2025-07-13
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In this episode, Rachael encounters the uncanny intelligence of the patient's unconscious. The patient, having criticised Rachael for her “messy” management of her clinical practice then adopts the same management style and surreptitiously benefits from it.  Feeling guilty, the patient has a dream revealing these dynamics but withholds her insights from Rachael. This produces a desire in Rachael to be mean and partake of the jouissance of revenge. By unpacking her own unconscious with Gill, it becomes clear to Rach that her countertransference wish is a clue to the patient's fear, which is preventing her from surrendering into the patient position.

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Episode 6: Not Messing Around: The Pleasures Of Being A Mean Girl

Episode 6: Not Messing Around: The Pleasures Of Being A Mean Girl

Gill Straker, Rachael Burton, Andrew Geeves