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Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast

Gamer posing as therapist. Dogs, video games & politics since 1969. Think of me as the therapist version of your cranky GenX older brother who wants to hang out in the basement rumpus room, talk about questionable things and plot rebellion. mikelanglois.substack.com

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61:06

Playful Subversions Episode 8

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/12/04

In this episode, I sit down with integrative psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and poet Brittany Robertson, LICSW, whose work centers on embodiment, liberation, and deep relational healing for “the strong sensitive one.” Our conversation moves quickly from her professional bio into something far more personal, playful, and unexpected: how a mini-trampoline became an essential tool in her therapeutic life, self-regulation, and resistance to professional compliance.We explore the slow creep of

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68:05

Playful Subversions Episode 7

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/11/06

In this episode of Playful Subversions, I sit down with my longtime friend and colleague Catherine Beckett, LCSW, PhD, whose work spans grief counseling, hospice care, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Catherine also happens to be a 20-year veteran of Portland’s Comedy Sports improv troupe, which becomes the perfect starting point for a conversation about play, trust, and the creative roots of therapy.Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts

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72:01

Playful Subversions Episode 6

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/10/30

In this Halloween episode, I welcome my friend and colleague Heather McGibbon, a psychodynamic therapist and cinema scholar whose unusual passion for horror and serial killers makes her the perfect guest for a spooky season conversation. We explore how horror functions both psychologically and culturally—as a container for our deepest fears, desires, and aggression.Heather shares how her fascination with horror began in childhood, when she realized the unsettling truth that she could hurt someone

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80:30

Playful Subversions Episode 5

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/10/23

In this episode I sit down with Fallon Stapleton, a Navy veteran turned therapist and birth worker, to explore how the cozy farming game Stardew Valley became a portal for healing, queerness, and defiance against burnout. What begins as a lighthearted chat about gaming unfolds into a profound reflection on perfectionism, motherhood, and the radical potential of play in a world built on exhaustion.Fallon shares how tending virtual crops and befriending pixelated villagers helped her confront her own

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51:41

Playful Subversions Episode 4

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/10/16

In this heartfelt episode of Playful Subversions, psychotherapist and yoga teacher Taylor Young joins the conversation to explore how caring for her two rescue dogs, Jasmine and Stanley, became a mirror for her own healing and a practice of defiant joy. From serenading her elderly chihuahua mix with improvised “poop songs” to literally tumbling down hills while chasing squirrels, Taylor describes how play, patience, and embodied presence transformed her relationship with her anxious, reactive

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55:15

Playful Subversions Episode 3

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/10/09

In this episode of Playful Subversions, I speak with Nicholas De Carlo, an analytic social worker, educator, and co-director of the Emancipatory Sciences Lab at UCSF. Our conversation—humorous, reflective, and deeply humane—centers on birds, both literal and symbolic, as vehicles for tenderness, abolitionist imagination, and re-enchantment with the world.Nicholas recounts a spontaneous initiation into urban bird rescue: discovering fledglings on New York sidewalks, encountering other “bird people”

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57:31

Playful Subversions Ep. 2: Play, Objects, & Resistance

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/10/02

In this episode of Playful Subversions, I talk with psychoanalyst and activist Molly Merson about the seriousness of play. From lifting tires to planting fruit trees, we explore how embodied play, failure, and queering the use of objects become acts of resistance to authoritarianism, while also cultivating joy, resilience, and connection. Get full access to Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions at mikelanglois.substack.com/subscribe

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73:19

PS001 Carter Carter's Larder Ardour

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/09/25

Our inaugural episode of Playful Subversions has me chatting with Carter Carter—assistant professor, psychotherapist, community organizer, and author of the food column Larder Ardour (with Carter Carter.) I frame the podcast as a response to contemporary authoritarianism and fascism, which I describe as exhausting and immobilizing. Drawing on D.W. Winnicott, I emphasize play and creativity as vital forms of resistance against compliance and psychic deadness. This series is meant to highlight quirky,

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7:28

Video: Playful Subversion Rises Up!

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/09/09

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62:28

Stealing Fire, Sharing Light:

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/08/12

This is a recording of a dialogue Patricia Clough and I had this week at the American Psychological Association’s 2025 Conference. In it we discuss our idea of the Promethean impulse as it relates to technology in psychoanalysis, something that can feel by turns socially transgressive, dangerous and brave, i.e., daring to understand technology. We critique technophobia’s relationship to race and class hatred; the differences between the individual and the human individual; and distinguishing between

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18:12

Episode 8: The P-HOLE & The Neon Bible

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/07/22

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9:28

The Revolution Will (In Part) Be Written.

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/02/17

There have been derisive tropes about “keyboard warriors” for as long as there has been the internet. Here's why that hurts all of us. Get full access to Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions at mikelanglois.substack.com/subscribe

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6:48

Episode 7: The Algorithm As Selfobject

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2025/01/17

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Episode 6: "Can I Kill You Again Today?" The...

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2025/01/02

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12:28

Podcast Episode 5: The Moment

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2024/12/30

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1:56

A Gift From Me To You

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2024/12/21

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63:19

Throwback Thursday: Better Living Through Minecraft

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2024/12/19

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10:27

Blue Hair

Gamer Therapist: Playful Subversions Podcast ·

2024/12/16

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3:03

Moving Day

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2024/12/16

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