Audio Recording: "Psychotherapy" Appendix to "Recovering Sanity" read by Jack Gipple

I made this audio recording several years ago of the appendix chapter titled "Psychotherapy" from Ed Podvoll’s Recovering Sanity. This chapter on psychotherapy seems like a different piece every time I read it. I recorded it as I was preparing to teach an intensive psychotherapy seminar at Windhorse Community Services in Boulder, Colorado. I knew how challenging it might be for my students and wanted to do everything I could to help them absorb the material. I’ve read and now listened to this chapter many times—several of those times while walking my dogs on the prairie—and every time something else comes forward. And always there are passages I contemplate for days afterwards. My reading was always meant to have a very limited audience—myself and my students. It is definitely a rough, handmade recording. I believe that when a reader understands the material they are reading, the listener can exchange with the reader and their understanding is supported. This recording is simply meant to take all of our understanding further.

Jack Gipple

March 2022