Characters on the Couch

Join Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Adam Stern and journalist/pop-culture enthusiast Jordana Horn as they discuss the interior lives of YOUR favorite fictional TV icons. From the classics to binge-worthy shows that everyone’s talking about right now, get ready to dive into the pathologies that earned these characters a spot in the cultural zeitgeist.


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Music by Morning Moon Music.

Jordana Horn

Jordana Horn is a freelance journalist whose pieces have appeared in various outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine. She’s also worked as a lawyer in New York and London, and was the New York bureau chief of The Jerusalem Post. She was the host and head writer of the podcast Call Your Mother. She is the mother of six kids aged 6-18, and has been called a “parenting expert” by both NBC’s Today Show and Fox and Friends, if not her own children. She is thrilled to live in the golden era of television.

Adam Stern

Adam Stern, MD is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a writer with pieces appearing in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The American Journal of Psychiatry among many other outlets. His book, Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training, was released in 2021 and was featured in People. He enjoys spending time with his family and bingeing shows with fascinating, complex characters.