Ep. 65 — How to Vet a Therapist Before You Ever Sit Down With One
Most people don't think to interview their therapist, they just show up and hope for the best. In this episode, Dr. Roger Hall explains why that approach can backfire, and walks through the three questions he asks every prospective client before starting work together.
💡 What You Can Learn from Th…
Ep. 66 — The Diagnosis That Never Goes Away: How One Therapy Session Can Reshape Your Identity
Have you ever left a single therapy session with a label that changed how you see yourself, permanently? On this episode of Second Thoughts, Dr. Roger Hall explains why one offhand diagnosis can take root and spread through your identity like a dandelion in a lawn, nearly impossible to remove once …
Sir Roger Hall marks 50 years since his first smash hit play
Glide Time opened at Circa Theatre on 11 August 1976 with a waitlist of more than 1,000 people, and audiences laughed before a line was even spoken, recognising their own offices on stage. Sir Roger Hall wrote it in a Connecticut library while attending a playwriting workshop where Meryl Streep was…
Ep. 67: Anger vs. Hostility (The Trap Therapists Don’t Realize They’re Setting)
What's the real difference between being angry and being hostile? According to Dr. Roger Hall, the answer matters more than you think — and getting it wrong can quietly damage relationships, therapy outcomes, and how people see themselves.
In this episode, Dr. Hall unpacks the fundamental attributi…
Ep. 68: Why Insight Alone Won’t Heal You (Trauma, Memory and Real Change)
We're taught that healing starts with understanding, that if we can just uncover why we are the way we are, everything will click into place. Dr. Roger Hall says that's only half true, and chasing insight alone can actually keep people stuck.
In this episode of Second Thoughts, Dr. Hall unpacks why…
Ep. 69: Nice Is Not a Virtue, and Why Real Love Confronts
"He was a nice man and a good boss." That is what a German housemaid said about Hitler, and it is the sentence that made Dr. Roger Hall stop treating nice as a virtue. This episode takes apart unconditional positive regard, the idea Carl Rogers built modern therapy on. Rogers wanted to say love, bu…
Evil Is Not Mental Illness: He Was a Nice Man and a Good Boss
"He was a nice man and a good boss."
That is what Hitler's maid said about him. The psychology of evil is not the psychology of mental illness, and this is the episode that pulls them apart.
Rosa Mitterer went to work at the Berghof as a teenager and broke her silence in 2008, at ninety-one. Asked …
The Essential Quality Of Masculinity.
"A neutered man is tame. He is easy to control. And he is of very little use."
That is Roger's answer to what healthy masculinity actually is, and he gets to it through a bull.
A woman in a court ordered parenting class told the room about her father's farm. He keeps cows, and he keeps one bull, an…
The Three Kinds Of Wounded Healer. How To Choose A Therapist
"The wolves always know where the sheep are."
Roger has one rule for how to choose a therapist, and it starts with admitting that a wounded healer can be any of three very different people.
Nation opens with the phrase everybody repeats: hurt people hurt people. Roger does not like it. Some hurt pe…
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