Couples Counseling: The Brood

It’s time once again for Philip and Andy to reopen their Horror Couples Counseling practice, and this year we’re starting by acknowledging that relationships are informed by both nature and nurture and you don’t need to gestate rage babies to find out that some are just not built to last (and that some therapists can be the opposite of helpful…not us, of course). So, let’s talk through some generational trauma, weaponized therapy-speak, and good old fashioned body horror to get to the heart of the problems between Frank and Nola in David Cronenberg’s divorce song, The Brood (1979).