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Bat Therapy: Mental Health through the Lens of Comics and Film

Dr. Emilia Brown and Keeden Hopkins

Welcome to Bat Therapy, mental health through the lens of comics and film. What is a psychologist to do when they have a passion for mental health treatment as well as all things Batman? They start a podcast, of course! This podcast lets you be a fly on the wall (or a bat in the cave), listening in on a friendship built out of a love for talking Batman and other superheroes, comics, and the everyday struggle to achieve mental health and happiness. Emilia (psychologist) and Keeden (educator and

tv & film animation & manga

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9:34

Mindful Nerd Moment: New York doesn’t realize that...

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2024/04/22

Finally. You have left the sewer, and the people of New York City can learn to love you and your teenage mutant ninja turtle brothers. And the timing is perfect because you are protecting them from Super Fly! But then you find out that they think you are a monster, attacking the city with Super Fly. There is a lot you are feeling in this moment – it is the perfect time for some mindfulness.

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42:07

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

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2024/04/16

When you’re a teenager, it is only natural to care about what other people think – you want to fit in and find your people. This is especially true if you happen to be a mutant ninja turtle going through puberty. But what do you do when you care so much about being liked that you end up getting in your own way?

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10:36

Mindful Nerd Moment: Cassandra Cain reads body...

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2024/04/13

You are Cassandra Cain and, after escaping your father, you are living in a Gotham library. You never learned to speak, so you communicate with people through their body language. It speaks to you. You take a moment away from worrying about your father’s assassins to sit and watch the people in the library so that you can connect with them through their body language, their facial expressions, and their movements.

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39:05

Cassandra Cain – Batgirl, Orphan (Shadow of the Batgirl)

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2024/04/09

Cassandra Cain doesn’t have many storylines of her own, but she is a very compelling character in the Bat Family. Raised to kill instead of to speak, she has a quirky way to life that you can’t help but love and respect. We talk about Cassandra’s unique communication style and how, like Barbara Gordon, a therapist would try to adjust their approach in order to meet Cassandra where she is at.

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11:49

Mindful Nerd Moment: Remus Lupin uses the Memory...

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2024/04/06

Remus Lupin misses the simpler times before he was a werewolf and when all the Marauders were alive. He uses the Memory Extraction spell to immerse himself in a memory from being in school with his friends. He looks into the Pensieve and allows himself to fully experience what that time was like, noticing how it feels to cherish and to mourn those memories.

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8:40

Mindful Nerd Moment: Damian Wayne goes to the playground

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2024/04/06

The only reason you are considering this insipid activity is because you respect Alfred, despite his obsession with you “missing out on childhood”. That, and you already tried to go into the Batcave, and you’ve been locked out. So here you are at the playground, getting ready to see what is so special about the swing set, using mindfulness to try and overcome your belief that this will be an utter waste of time.

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53:44

Harry Potter and the Robbers Cave Experiment

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2024/04/02

You take 11-year-olds, divide them into different teams, force them to compete for points, and then you watch them fight. Eventually, you bring them back together through a common enemy (an enemy that is probably more appropriate for the adults to handle…). Are we talking about Harry Potter or a social psychology experiment from the 1950s? Listen in to find out.

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52:15

Damian Wayne

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2024/03/26

We discuss the animated films: Son of Batman, Batman vs Robin, Bad Blood, Justice League vs Teen Titans. Get a glimpse of what 10-year-old Bruce Wayne would have looked like if he grew up being trained to lead the League of Shadows. We explore Damian’s difficulty befriending others and how, if looked at from a certain angle, his abrasiveness can actually be an endearing trait…sometimes.

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8:43

Mindful Nerd Moment: When you’re Clark Kent and your...

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2024/03/23

Sometimes, if we want to do something really important to us, then we have to be willing to experience something unpleasant. If Clark wants to talk to his crush, Lana, then he has to be willing to feel really sick because she wears a kryptonite necklace. So we practice being Clark and using mindfulness so that he can talk to Lana despite the kryptonite.

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54:58

Clark Kent – Smallville

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2024/03/19

Smallville is a lot like social media: pretty on the outside with a lot going on out of view. We explore if Clark’s crush on Lana Lang is caused by anticipatory nausea / anxiety about her kryptonite necklace. And we discuss when might be the best time in someone’s life to get superpowers based on what we know about brain development and causes of disability.

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4:55

Mindful Nerd Moment: Deadpool Breaking the 4th Wall

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2024/03/16

Mindfulness is about stepping back and being an observer of yourself. What better way to practice this than as Deadpool stepping out of his comic book to gain some knowledge and perspective.

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50:07

Deadpool …a Hero?

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2024/03/12

“Doing the right thing is sometimes messy and f**ed up, and not particularly convenient.” We talk about the conundrum that is Deadpool and why, despite his erratic killer ways, the X-Men keep trying to turn him into a hero. We also talk about how to approach therapy with a client like Wade Wilson.

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10:04

Mindful Nerd Moment: Practice Bending the Elements

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2024/03/09

Earth, air, fire, water…choose an element to practice bending by using the wisdom the monks shared with Aang. “…bending is about energy and balance. By feeling the energy around you, you can find balance. By finding balance, you can feel the energy.”

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59:44

Avatar: The Last Airbender – Guests Team JVS &...

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2024/03/05

Keeden’s wife, Colleen Hopkins, and Sam Leggett from Team JVS join us to talk about the heroes-in-training that appear in Avatar: The Last Airbender the 2024 TV show. We have a great range from Emilia (brand new to the franchise) to Colleen (knows literally everything there is to know). We talk about favorite characters, the struggle to be a child while also having the responsibilities of the world on your shoulders, and how a therapist might approach someone like Zuko to help them heal.

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5:57

Mindful Nerd Moment: Percy Jackson Takes an...

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2024/03/02

When you have powers like Poseidon, you have to take advantage of your ability to breathe underwater to take a much-deserved break from godly quests.

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50:46

Percy Jackson & the Olympians

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2024/02/27

Percy had a tough start to life. He was different and struggled to fit in, bullied and left unprotected by many of the adults in his life. And then all of a sudden, he was a powerful demigod on a quest of mythological proportions. We talk about teaching, parenting, and what it might take to get a bunch of teenage demigods to get along.

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7:40

Mindful Nerd Moment: When you’re a Justice Leaguer...

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2024/02/25

It isn’t easy trying to make your way as a superhero when you have Superman swooping in and taking out your villains. You’re invincible, Superman, we get it. When the Justice League teamwork isn’t making the dream work, mindfulness can help deal with the frustration.

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39:31

The Justice League - Secret Society (Justice League...

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2024/02/20

Being a hero-in-training takes on a whole different context when you are talking about expert superheroes who are training to work together as a team. Emilia has brushed up on some I/O Psychology so we can talk about team dynamics and what seems to complicate the Justice League’s attempts to be a well-oiled machine.

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11:35

Mindful Nerd Moment: Bruce Wayne does a Body Scan...

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2024/02/17

It’s been a long night of crimefighting and there is a lot more to do, but the sun is rising so you have begrudgingly returned to the Batcave. Before you shower off the dirt and grit from being out in Gotham, you decide to find a spot in the Batcave to lie down and check in with your body to see how it is doing.

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60:02

Bruce Wayne

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2024/02/13

We delve into the many skills of Bruce Wayne and how he honed his natural abilities (and financial privilege). We also explore how he maneuvers through his anger and emotional turmoil to become a crimefighter dressed up as a … bat, what seems to be a comic book version of harm reduction.

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