One Scene: The Camera and the Couch

Welcome to One Scene: The Camera and the Couch — where cinema meets the therapy chair.

Each episode, we take a single scene from film or television and put it on the couch, examining the psychology, relationships, and human behavior playing out on screen. Drawing on decades of experience in counselor education and clinical training, we unpack what's really happening beneath the dialogue: the defense mechanisms, the attachment patterns, the family systems, the moments that make a scene unforgettable.

This isn't film criticism and it isn't therapy — it's the space in between.

One Scene is a sister podcast to Fade to Chat: Golden Age Cinema, sharing that show's love of classic film craft, but narrowing the lens to a single scene per episode for a deeper clinical dive into character and motivation.

New episodes release regularly. Subscribe, and bring your own popcorn — and maybe a notepad.

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🛋️ Sister show to Fade to Chat: Golden Age Cinema