PSYCHOCINEMATIC

Jun 10 2024 76 ep. 76 mins 31
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A podcast analysing depictions of mental illness and disabilities in film and TV. Hosted by a psychologist, Stephanie, with a little help from guest hosts with lived experience. We may ruin your favourite movie, but we promise to do it with fun, humour, and perhaps an important lesson or two.

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A Bridgerton Episode - Part 1: Actually so much representation (and also Pitbull)

Jun 10 2024 54 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE My Dear Readers (I mean listeners, you get it) Welcome to a surprise episode of Psychocinematic, where we cast all serious topics to the wind and focus on what makes us feel safe and protected right now from a world falling apart - trashy, romancey, sexy, gossipy Bridgerton. But did you think I would NOT have disability and mental illness representation to discuss

The Future of Psychocinematic Podcast

Mar 30 2024 12 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Just a little update on the future of Psychocinematic Podcast... Don't worry, it's not all bad news! Follow Asiatu on insta and connect with them here Follow Psychocinematic on insta here. SUPPORT INDIE PODCASTS!

Episode 68: Two Backbrace Girls, and Romy & Michele’s Highschool Reunion (with Lauren Edwards)

Dec 13 2023 88 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Join us for the last episode of the year with the vivacious comedian and musical theatre actor Lauren Edwards. Lauren and Steph bond over their shared experience with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and being backbrace girls in highschool. We go through the limited selection of scoliosis-based media until we get to the beloved comedy film Romy and Michele's Highsch

Episode 67: Why Santa Claus IS Autistic, and making theatre more inclusive (With Oliver Hetherington-Page)

Nov 29 2023 87 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Happy early Christmas Psychocinemaniacs! It's been a hell of a year, but one thing that brings us joy is the work of disabled creators blazing the trail in inclusivity, such as our guest Oliver Hetherington-Page. Oliver joins us to talk about how he's working to make theatre more inclusive and what that looks like, what he wants to see in autistic depictions on scre

Episode 65: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: The Haunting of Hill House, or, problems that could be solved by simply talking? (with Braaains Podcast)

Oct 31 2023 96 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE In a perfect meeting of minds, Steph is joined by Braaains podcast hosts Heather and Sarah Taylor, sisters of podcasting, filmmaking and mental health & disability awareness. Which means of course it’s just a light casual chat about the devastatingly terrifying Mike Flanagan series The Haunting of Hill House. We get deep into what makes this show so affectin

Episode 64: Crohn’s Disease representation in Boldly Go, and Pete Davidson just trying to spread awareness (with Chris Cosgrove)

Oct 18 2023 88 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Just in time for Invisible Disabilities Week; Steph is blessed to have the talented filmmaker Chris Cosgrove today to discuss all things Inflammatory Bowel Disease and his personal experience with Crohn's disease. Chris takes us through the process of his acclaimed film Boldly Go (watch on ABC Iview here), what IBD and ostomy representation we've seen in the media

Episode 63: A Star is Born - love, trauma and addiction in the journey of fame (with Alex Steed)

Oct 04 2023 93 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Steph is thrilled to be joined by one of her favourite podcasters from one of her favourite podcasts, Alex Steed from You Are Good. He is good! You are Good is good. All goodness all the time.Steph and Alex discuss the 2018 version of an oft told tale, A Star Is Born, where Bradley Coopers fame story is winding down as Lady Gaga’s is just beginning. We discuss the

Episode 62: Let’s fold in the cheese as we confabulate on ND coded characters in Schitt’s Creek (with Marie Camin)

Sep 20 2023 94 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE This is no time for pettifogging! I am bombilating with anticipation to bring you the most impulsive, capricious and melodramatic episode yet! The scintillating winsome clinical psychologist Marie Camin joins Steph as they discuss with great vigour the beloved Schitts Creek. Marie shares her thoughts on who in the cast she would suggest is Neurodivergent, who she

Episode 61: The Kings Speech and other screen royals with a stutter (with Priya)

Sep 06 2023 70 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Welcome to episode 61 with a very special guest, podcaster, writer, disability advocate and YEAR 12 STUDENT, Priya from Stutter Conversation! Priya tells us all about stuttering and what it's like to have a stutter, and which on screen depictions she likes and loathes. We also take a deep dive into The Kings Speech (2010), and how accurate a depiction this might

Episode 60: The truth about Tourette’s and Tiktok (with Monica Nguyen)

Aug 23 2023 68 mins  
TRANSCRIPT HERE Join the enigmatic tiktok star and disability advocate Monica Nguyen as she chats with Steph about all things Tourettes Syndrome in film and TV, on social media, and on those wonderfully nuanced* feature stories on programmes such as 60 Minutes. We get to the bottom of whether Tiktok has created a Tourette’s epidemic, and Mon tells us her own experience with tikt