Got Therapy? Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:08:08 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2630611 en-us © 2026 Got Therapy? yes ec3ce672-a419-5937-abf1-05fa9f8d9686 158651d0-8e9d-11f1-9f24-8ff1eb164d6e Got Therapy? episodic false What is self-esteem, really? In this episode of Got Therapy?, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose reconsider self-esteem through a psychodynamic lens — not as a high score you defend, but as the acceptance of a complex, often conflicted self.


The conversation moves through not-me states (the parts of ourselves we'd rather not own, from Sullivan and Bromberg), self-compassion, and why a rigid, always-positive self becomes brittle. Dan walks through normative narcissism after Kohut — why everyone feels a flash of "I don't measure up" driving past the neighbor's new car — the spectrum from healthy-level to disordered narcissism, and how mirroring and validation open the door to real change. Along the way: microtrauma and social comparison, holding a relationship with someone whose views you can't stand, and Fromm's question of having vs. being — the thread they carry into next week's "Cultivate Life."


Chapters and timestamps are in the pinned comment.


Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Got Therapy? https://storage.buzzsprout.com/95r0vl8bd05m4w5mdd3rlfubw415?.jpg Got Therapy? https://www.buzzsprout.com/2630611 JUST THE CLIPS _ Homecoming — Trauma, Therapy & The Odyssey JUST THE CLIPS _ Homecoming — Trauma, Therapy & The Odyssey What happens to the people who come home from the worst experiences of their lives — and never truly arrive?

In Episode 81, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose use Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's Odyssey as a lens on trauma, PTSD, shame, and the long road back home. It becomes an hour on containment, on why what we can't put into words we're doomed to put into action, on the risk of pushing healing too fast, and on what post-traumatic growth actually looks like when you refuse to romanticize the wound.

Two clinicians thinking out loud about integrating the hardest things we carry.

Chapters:
00:00 — Being heard vs. being fixed (containment)
04:30 — Nolan's Odyssey and the reveal that rewrites the story
08:18 — Coming home from war, but not arriving
14:11 — Calypso as the therapist on the island
25:33 — If you can't say it, you'll act it out
32:31 — PTSD: the event, the processing, the trigger
36:27 — Do no harm: the risk of moving too fast
37:58 — Post-traumatic growth
46:52 — Reaction vs. response
57:17 — What good therapy begins with

Got Therapy? is a production of Midland Studios. Nothing in this episode is a substitute for individual therapy — if any of these themes land close to home, please reach out to a licensed clinician.

Hosts: Dr. Michael Baltimore & Dr. Dan Rose

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

]]> What happens to the people who come home from the worst experiences of their lives — and never truly arrive?

In Episode 81, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose use Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's Odyssey as a lens on trauma, PTSD, shame, and the long road back home. It becomes an hour on containment, on why what we can't put into words we're doomed to put into action, on the risk of pushing healing too fast, and on what post-traumatic growth actually looks like when you refuse to romanticize the wound.

Two clinicians thinking out loud about integrating the hardest things we carry.

Chapters:
00:00 — Being heard vs. being fixed (containment)
04:30 — Nolan's Odyssey and the reveal that rewrites the story
08:18 — Coming home from war, but not arriving
14:11 — Calypso as the therapist on the island
25:33 — If you can't say it, you'll act it out
32:31 — PTSD: the event, the processing, the trigger
36:27 — Do no harm: the risk of moving too fast
37:58 — Post-traumatic growth
46:52 — Reaction vs. response
57:17 — What good therapy begins with

Got Therapy? is a production of Midland Studios. Nothing in this episode is a substitute for individual therapy — if any of these themes land close to home, please reach out to a licensed clinician.

Hosts: Dr. Michael Baltimore & Dr. Dan Rose

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

]]> Got Therapy? Buzzsprout-19580935 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0400 1084 26 8101 bonus false Homecoming — Trauma, Therapy & The Odyssey EPISODE: 81 Homecoming — Trauma, Therapy & The Odyssey EPISODE: 81 What happens to the people who come home from the worst experiences of their lives — and never truly arrive?

In Episode 81, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose use Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's Odyssey as a lens on trauma, PTSD, shame, and the long road back home. It becomes an hour on containment, on why what we can't put into words we're doomed to put into action, on the risk of pushing healing too fast, and on what post-traumatic growth actually looks like when you refuse to romanticize the wound.

Two clinicians thinking out loud about integrating the hardest things we carry.

Chapters:
00:00 — Being heard vs. being fixed (containment)
04:30 — Nolan's Odyssey and the reveal that rewrites the story
08:18 — Coming home from war, but not arriving
14:11 — Calypso as the therapist on the island
25:33 — If you can't say it, you'll act it out
32:31 — PTSD: the event, the processing, the trigger
36:27 — Do no harm: the risk of moving too fast
37:58 — Post-traumatic growth
46:52 — Reaction vs. response
57:17 — What good therapy begins with

Got Therapy? is a production of Midland Studios. Nothing in this episode is a substitute for individual therapy — if any of these themes land close to home, please reach out to a licensed clinician.

Hosts: Dr. Michael Baltimore & Dr. Dan Rose

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

]]> What happens to the people who come home from the worst experiences of their lives — and never truly arrive?

In Episode 81, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose use Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's Odyssey as a lens on trauma, PTSD, shame, and the long road back home. It becomes an hour on containment, on why what we can't put into words we're doomed to put into action, on the risk of pushing healing too fast, and on what post-traumatic growth actually looks like when you refuse to romanticize the wound.

Two clinicians thinking out loud about integrating the hardest things we carry.

Chapters:
00:00 — Being heard vs. being fixed (containment)
04:30 — Nolan's Odyssey and the reveal that rewrites the story
08:18 — Coming home from war, but not arriving
14:11 — Calypso as the therapist on the island
25:33 — If you can't say it, you'll act it out
32:31 — PTSD: the event, the processing, the trigger
36:27 — Do no harm: the risk of moving too fast
37:58 — Post-traumatic growth
46:52 — Reaction vs. response
57:17 — What good therapy begins with

Got Therapy? is a production of Midland Studios. Nothing in this episode is a substitute for individual therapy — if any of these themes land close to home, please reach out to a licensed clinician.

Hosts: Dr. Michael Baltimore & Dr. Dan Rose

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

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The conversation moves through not-me states (the parts of ourselves we'd rather not own, from Sullivan and Bromberg), self-compassion, and why a rigid, always-positive self becomes brittle. Dan walks through normative narcissism after Kohut — why everyone feels a flash of "I don't measure up" driving past the neighbor's new car — the spectrum from healthy-level to disordered narcissism, and how mirroring and validation open the door to real change. Along the way: microtrauma and social comparison, holding a relationship with someone whose views you can't stand, and Fromm's question of having vs. being — the thread they carry into next week's "Cultivate Life."

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

]]> What is self-esteem, really? In this episode of Got Therapy?, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose reconsider self-esteem through a psychodynamic lens — not as a high score you defend, but as the acceptance of a complex, often conflicted self.


The conversation moves through not-me states (the parts of ourselves we'd rather not own, from Sullivan and Bromberg), self-compassion, and why a rigid, always-positive self becomes brittle. Dan walks through normative narcissism after Kohut — why everyone feels a flash of "I don't measure up" driving past the neighbor's new car — the spectrum from healthy-level to disordered narcissism, and how mirroring and validation open the door to real change. Along the way: microtrauma and social comparison, holding a relationship with someone whose views you can't stand, and Fromm's question of having vs. being — the thread they carry into next week's "Cultivate Life."

Got Therapy? makes complex psychological concepts accessible and practically applicable. New episodes weekly.


00:00  Cold open (4th of July)

02:00  Self-esteem as accepting your complexity

03:30  Not-me states — Sullivan, Bromberg, and George Costanza

07:00  Self-compassion and giving yourself a break

09:00  Rigidity vs. flexibility — the stick that bends

10:00  Normative narcissism, Kohut, and the Porsche 911

15:00  Microtrauma and social comparison

18:00  Ethical codes and holding your neighbor

24:00  Ideology, the real, and conflict "all the way down"

27:00  Narcissism on a spectrum; the "phallic" type

30:00  Mirroring and validation in therapy

41:00  Countertransference and owning what's in you

45:00  Self-esteem, validation, and the classroom

49:00  Internalizing the therapeutic moment

51:00  Having vs. being — Fromm, and "cultivate life"

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