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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."


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

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There's a rule in psychoanalytic thought that comes before technique: you have to survive the patient. It doesn't mean enduring the hour. It means staying able to think while the person in front of you genuinely lands on you — because in most clinical traditions, being affected isn't…
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What makes therapy work — before any technique? In Episode 82, Dr. Michael Baltimore and Dr. Dan Rose start drafting the opening chapter of a book on good therapy and land on a bigger question: what does a good therapist actually do beneath the manual? Dan calls it the "music of therapy" …
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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 ho…
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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 ho…
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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 pa…
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