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''None of us has escaped the injuries and indignities of growing up.''

'''When I'm Calling You''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1993|1993]].

== Synopsis ==

'None of us has escaped the injuries and indignities of growing up;
all of us bear the scars of that process&hellip;' Joe says we can turn
our psychic pathologies into something beautiful through
psychotherapy.  Then he describes why people are turning to
psychotherapy by phone: it avoids the burden of traveling, removes the
distractions of the office, other patients, the psychotherapists'
quirks&hellip;

6:20: He calls 'tele-counsel of Los Angeles' (apparently fictional),
gets a humorous phone message, apparently chooses '9', for depression,
gets a recorded message from Dr Jerome Nierenberg (sp?), who's busy.

8:10: A woman ([[Laura Esterman]]?) tells a story about a dream.
She's in a room with a bunch of men who talk about politics.  She
tells them it's really about a cow thrown over a cliff, which
represents the way men treat women.  John (this is a group therapy
session) says that he's unsympathetic, that women have all power.  A
second guy ([[Larry Block]]) sees both of their points of view.  The
therapist asks another woman, Stella, what she thinks.  Others
participate.

19:20: Joe talks about audio Rorschach tests, plays some audio clips
for us to react to.

21:20: Donald ([[Eliot Wilder]]) tells Joe he's obsessed with this woman.  Joe asks
Donald questions about her.

22:20: Joe asks philosophical questions: 'What is truth?', 'Where is
god?'&hellip;, tells us that questions don't matter.  Donald chimes
in.

23:20: Joe asks Donald if this woman doesn't give him a heightened
sense of life, suggests he express himself (screaming, for example) as
an outlet for his feelings.

25:00: Joe describes therapy by FAX.

26:30: 'Neurosis is the sprung tourniquet on the hemorrhage of
feelings&hellip;' Joe makes a series of metaphors for neurosis.

27:00: 'There is no permanence, nothing is forever&hellip;' Joe tells
us that if we accept nothing we will have everything.

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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* Monologue: The problems with conventional therapy and benefits of phone therapy.  
* Actors:  Telephone therapy session.
* Monologue with sound effects:  Audio Rorschach test.
* Actors:  Joe as a telephone therapist in dialog with an actor.  
* Monologue: fax therapy, the infinity of nothingness
</div></div>

== Music ==
{{Longing for Daydreams (Holger Czukay)}} [Intro]
{{Around the World (Mantovani and his Orchestra)}} [22:09]

== Shared material ==
* This is the first half hour of [[Phone Therapy]]

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. The performers were Joe Frank, [[Arthur Miller]], [[Grace Zabriskie]], <!--sp?-->Larry Kusnit, [[Farley Ziegler]], [[Keith Talbot]], [[Helen Wilson]], [[Larry Block]], <!--sp?-->Lisa Hiemer, and [[Laura Esterman]]. Special thanks to Farley Ziegler."

== Commentary ==
Telehealth and telecounseling increased greatly in 2020, in response to the pandemic.

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