Shrink Rap

An antidote to the conventional chat show, presented by psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly.

Mon 19 May 10pm
In the final episode of the current series of More4's Shrink Rap , Dr Pamela Connolly talks to Oscar-nominated actress, Kathleen Turner about her career, her struggle with rheumatoid arthritis and her battle with alcohol.

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About Dr Pamela Connolly
Well-known actress and writer Pamela Stephenson (star of 'Not the Nine O'Clock News'), Pamela is now a successful and hugely respected therapist – Dr Pamela Connolly – with a private practice in Los Angeles.

Interview with Pamela
March 2007
Pamela talks to More4 about turning her back on celebrity, how Shrink Rap breaks the interviewing mould, and why fame is a psychological trauma...

What's the idea behind Shrink Rap?
The idea is to have a deep, psychologically-based conversation with people that we think we know. The chat show, as it has evolved today, certainly has its place as a marvellous piece of entertainment, but we sometimes are fooled by the illusion that we really get to know people on the chat show. They're presenting a side of themselves that they choose to present at that moment, and there's a requirement and expectation that they're going to be entertaining and adorable and probably selling something that they've done, so it's a business transaction.

It's very valid, and I'm not knocking it, but what happens is we start thinking that that's really the person, that's who the individual is, when that's just a chosen aspect of the individual. Fame is a very quirky thing, and I think there's a part of the self that emerges when the person comes to public attention, and that's the part that's on display.

Shrink Rap is an attempt to allow people not to be under pressure of performing, not to feel that they have to present the ideal self, the one that is always adorable and perfect and funny and together. This allows people to bring forward the true self, to not always tell the official story.