The Radical Therapist

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• The Radical Therapist #151 — The Body Doesn’t Escape the Story: Somatic Therapy’s Narrative Problem

  October 12, 2026 · 17 min

  “Where do you feel that in your body?” What happens after we ask that question? In episode #151, Dr. Chris Hoff reads his manuscript, The Body Doesn’t Escape the Story, examining the assumptions behind contemporary somatic therapy and the…

• The Radical Therapist #150 – Would Therapy Shock Us Anymore? Mark Fisher, Hauntology, and the Lost Futures of Psychotherapy

  August 10, 2026 · 27 min

  In this episode of The Radical Therapist, Chris Hoff draws on Mark Fisher’s idea of hauntology to ask a deceptively simple question: If we could show today’s psychotherapy to a therapist twenty years ago, would anything about it genuinely…

• The Radical Therapist Podcast #149 - Personal Responsibility, Inc. with Julie Tilsen, PhD

  July 19, 2026 · 60 min

  What if therapy has become too good at helping people adapt to conditions that should never have been accepted in the first place? In this episode of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with narrative therapist, author, and…

• The Radical Therapist Podcast #148 Poetry, Therapy, and the Art of Paying Attention with Tobin Kriwel

  July 7, 2026 · 40 min

  In this episode of The Radical Therapist, Chris sits down with narrative therapist and poet Tobin Kriwel for a conversation at the intersection of poetry, therapy, metaphor, and human attention. Together we explore what poetry can teach…

• The Radical Therapist #147 – Michael White Revisited: Decentred, Influential, and Uncertain w/ Dr. Kelsi Semeschuk

  July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

  What does it actually mean to practice from a decentred position? Has narrative therapy's commitment to being non-expert unintentionally softened its political edge? And what might we have misunderstood about Michael White's work over the…

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