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Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision

by Gill Straker, Rachael Burton, Andrew Geeves
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  • Episode 9: Feudal Lord Forever? Maturing Through Play

    October 4, 2026 · 24 min

    In this episode, Andrew gives new meaning to Winnicott's idea of “playing with reality” as he tries to help his patient into a more social reality through the medium of play.  In the session, Andrew⁠ and Gill reflect together on the fact…

  • Episode 8: When A Patient Dies - Funerals And Feelings

    September 6, 2026 · 27 min

    In this episode, Andrew deals with the poignancy of the premature death of his patient. His presenting problem in the supervision is whether or not he should go to the funeral. While this is indeed a dilemma to be reckoned with, as the…

  • Episode 7: "I Feel Unsafe" - Victimisation and Fragilisation

    August 2, 2026 · 24 min

    In this episode, Rachael takes on a number of important questions including when is it appropriate to bypass defences by uniting with the patient’s perspective and when to try to get under the defences and how to do this . Similarly…

  • Episode 6: Frustration and Envy - The Apparent Luxury of Collapse

    July 5, 2026 · 28 min

    In this episode, Andrew encounters a patient whose stated objective is to own her own competence and self assuredness and to be more like him. Andrew anticipates encountering a people pleaser and is surprised when he encounters a lack of…

  • Episode 5: I'm Glad My Mum Died, But It's A Shame I Didn't Get To Kill Her

    May 31, 2026 · 26 min

    In this episode, Rachael gets tangled up in her own anger and hostility towards her patient on behalf of the patient’s daughter. While trying to distance herself from the patient's enmeshment with the daughter she inadvertently gets…

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  • Episode 4: Therapy Terminable And Interminable

    May 3, 2026 · 26 min

    In this episode, Andrew struggles with the question of therapy terminable and interminable. He faces an ethical dilemma as to whether continuing therapy with a particular patient who has made considerable gains would be in some way…

  • Episode 3: Fostering Dependence And Nurturing Independence

    April 5, 2026 · 26 min

    In this episode, Rachael struggles with her own feelings about her therapy being cut across by a psychiatrist who seems to be opposed to long term therapy.  She feels activated especially as the patient has asked her to intervene and…

  • Episode 2: The Impenetrable Couple - Therapist As Third Wheel

    March 1, 2026 · 21 min

    In this episode, Andrew presents an unusual situation where a patient requires his partner to be present in his therapy not to work on couple dynamics, but as a benign observer.  Andrew finds himself unable to resist this demand both…

  • Episode 1: I Used ChatGPT And I Still Got Castrated

    February 1, 2026 · 26 min

    In this episode, Rachael struggles with her impulse to be castrating when she encounters what she experiences as an impenetrable patient, a Citadel.  She is irked by the patient constantly batting away her interventions and seemingly…

  • Episode 8: Hot Shrink For A Hot Minute: Erotic Transference Part II

    September 7, 2025 · 25 min

    In this episode, Rachael plumbs the mysteries of the erotic, both in the transference and the countertransference; mysterious because it occurs in liminal or transitional space as Winnicott would say. It is a space of illusion and…

  • Episode 7: Jetlagging: The Unconscious Hiding In Plane Sight

    August 17, 2025 · 24 min

    In his therapy with Noor, Andrew comes to realise that he is inadvertently co-constructing an avoidance of grieving and mourning. Through a careful unpacking of enactments in the room, Andrew comes to see how mini separations and losses…

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

    July 13, 2025 · 24 min

    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…

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About the show

Three Associating is a podcast that offers the listener a peek behind the closed doors of therapists working within a relational psychoanalytic model. Join Rachael and Andrew as they explore with their supervisor Gill how their own hidden feelings and motivations influence the therapeutic process and affect their patients. In each episode, a relational dilemma arising in the context of work with a fictitious patient is explored. While reasons of confidentiality and privacy mean that none of the patients we discuss are real, the relational dynamics are. www.threeassociating.com