TRANSCRIPT HERE Just a little update on the future of Psychocinematic Podcast...  Don't worry, it's not all bad news! Follow Asiatu on insta and connect with them here   Follow Psychocinematic on insta here.  SUPPORT INDIE PODCASTS ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE  Join us for the last episode of the year with the vivacious comedian and musical theatre actor Lauren Edwards. Lauren and Steph bond over their shared experience with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and being backbrace girls in highschool. We go through the limited selection of scoliosis-based media until we get to the beloved comedy film Romy and Michele's Highschool Reunion (1997). Find out what makes the film so iconic and whether its brief but infamous depiction of scoliosis was helpful or harmful! Also if anyone needs to make a call, I've got a phone.  CONTENT D ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE Happy early Christmas Psychocinemaniacs! It's been a hell of a year, but one thing that brings us joy is the work of disabled creators blazing the trail in inclusivity, such as our guest Oliver Hetherington-Page. Oliver joins us to talk about how he's working to make theatre more inclusive and what that looks like, what he wants to see in autistic depictions on screen & stage, and why musicals are inherently autistic. He tells us all about his show the No Bang Theory and his upcoming show Santa Claus is Autistic, which is Christmas themed but also relevant all year round.&n ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE   Today we sit down with Sarah Langston, disabled single mum, artist, and disability advocate, and learn a bucketload about the barriers facing neurodivergent parents, particularly mothers, and how Sarah supports those parents. Sarah dives deep into the child protection system and how often disability is equated with parenting risk, leading to reporting rather than supporting neurodivergent parents. And then we relate this somehow to the 2000 legal drama Erin Brockovich? WELL YES, as you'll soon discover!   CONTENT WARNING: child protection, child abuse (including sex ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE   In a perfect meeting of minds, Steph is joined by Braaains podcast hosts Heather and Sarah Taylor, sisters of podcasting, filmmaking and mental health & disability awareness. Which means of course it’s just a light casual chat about the devastatingly terrifying Mike Flanagan series The Haunting of Hill House. We get deep into what makes this show so affecting, what it says about trauma and family’s tendencies to deal with it in all the wrong ways, and how we see our own family in the triumphantly dysfunctional Crains. Happy Halloween Psychocinemaniacs!!!   CONTE ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE   Just in time for Invisible Disabilities Week; Steph is blessed to have the talented filmmaker Chris Cosgrove today to discuss all things Inflammatory Bowel Disease and his personal experience with Crohn's disease. Chris takes us through the process of his acclaimed film Boldly Go (watch on ABC Iview here), what IBD and ostomy representation we've seen in the media, and finally how Pete Davidson has become a likely ambassador for Crohns representation, particularly seen in the film King of Staten Island.  For support and resources for those experiencing IBD, Chris re ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE Steph is thrilled to be joined by one of her favourite podcasters from one of her favourite podcasts, Alex Steed from You Are Good. He is good! You are Good is good. All goodness all the time. Steph and Alex discuss the 2018 version of an oft told tale, A Star Is Born, where Bradley Coopers fame story is winding down as Lady Gaga’s is just beginning. We discuss the depictions of addiction and treatment; asking the question- should a therapist laugh at a patient’s botched suicide attempt story? Join us as we dissect the supposedly great love story behind the film, the toxicity ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE    This is no time for pettifogging! I am bombilating with anticipation to bring you the most impulsive, capricious and melodramatic episode yet! The scintillating winsome clinical psychologist Marie Camin joins Steph as they discuss with great vigour the beloved Schitts Creek. Marie shares her thoughts on who in the cast she would suggest is Neurodivergent, who she relates with the most, and how she approaches neurodiversity with her client base. Steph and Marie discuss the relationships on the show, how hard it is to appropriately diagnose autistic white cis profess ..read more

A little trailer for the lols! Starring the voices of Michael Watson, Steph Fornasier and Maz Fornasier.  Editing by Steph Fornasier Music by Michael Watson   TRANSCRIPT:  Steph: Welcome to Psychocinematic   (CLIP) Steph: Can I say that it was on the nose? Michael:  No you may not, you get one per episode   (CLIP) Steph: But we are the only married podcast team   Steph: A podcast where we analyzed depictions of disability and mental illness in popular film and TV.   (CLIP) Michael: The films about Charlie Babbitt. he's not a businessman, but a business ..read more

TRANSCRIPT HERE Happy International Day of People with Disability!! Join me (Steph) as I have a big gush about the documentary Crip Camp and a little rant about ableism, and direct your attention to the ‘mother of disability’ Judy Heumann as well as some of the many disability activists that I look to, leading the work in inclusion in Australia and the world. This episode was to be only available to everyone via patreon for one day before it went to exclusive patreon content but then I thought, nah! Here it is forever. However Patreon subscription fees for December and January will go to Peopl ..read more