shrink rap-chris langham

[havalina]

Did anybody watch this last night? was very interesting. Felt sorry for him drug/alcohol addiction etc. But did anyone just think liar liar pants on fire when he was going on about why he was looking at child porn?

There was no reason for me to think that, just a gut reaction.

Sorry if there is a thred about this already.

I saw a little clip from it on the news, that was all - missed the actual thing. I felt rather grubby just watching him. I was open to being convinced he was just a victim of circumstance but couldn't for the life of me figure out what he was on about, with all that 'I'm a congenital liar so I tell the truth' - I mean, what the heck was that about?

He needs a lot of help, not least to stop him looking at child porn again.

I read an interview with him in The Observer and his rationale for looking at child porn didn't seem plausible either. It was blah, blah, blah, their pain, my pain, blah blah blah.

Ho hum.

It was difficult viewing wasn't it? I was mostly quite convinced by his interview, but it was obvious that the reasons he did it were complex and murky, and I don't think he did himself any favours by coming back to this defence that it was all in the name of "research".

I think it's very unlikely that he's any kind of danger to children though. Especially if his family continues to stick by him (which they seem to be doing quite heroically by all accounts).

I wish he hadn't done it. I think the less of him for doing this and I am a firm believer in supportive treatment and rehabilitation for child sex offenders who want to change and have often been victims themselves.
I couldn't watch it, in part because I find Pamela Stephenson absolutely unbearable.

I agree, Marina.
I watched about ten minutes of it, but found PS extremely irritating.
He shouldn't have done the interview.

agree re: PS marina

surely as a "professional" therapist she shouldn't really be interviewing her chums anyway

I don't think she is any credit to the profession bundle, at all. And I doubt the motives of anyone who agrees to be interviewed by her for television consumption.
I feel very sorry for Langham, who is clearly a troubled and unhappy man, but much sorrier for the children in the photos he downloaded and the young woman whose experiences were at the centre of the court case

Just the trailers for the programme made me squirm - I couldn't have watched it. It seems a bizarre thing to do. Clearly he has many 'ishoos' - so why not tackle them properly instead of with a 'celeb psych' and on TV? Urrrgh.

I couldn't watch it.
Sleazy telly.

My friend edited this - but I missed it - must quiz him on it.

Exactly marina. I feel he's doing the paper/tv interviews as some kind of confessional to repair some of the damage done to his reputation.

I'm not against psychologists etc taking part in broadcasts (I thought In the Psychiatrist's Chair with Anthony Clare was fascinating, insightful stuff) but whoever commissioned Shrink Rap should hang their head in shame.

What worries me is that she imagines she is Anthony Clare bundle. As if
Found all trailers for Shrink Rap utterly nauseating

I didn't watch this, but was very disappointed when I saw the ad for it last night.

I don't think he should have done this.

This man repulses me.

I only watched first 15 mins. His own personal abuse story sounded practiced, like a piece he had scripted and was acting.

Anyway, this was category 5 childporn. Not Lolitas in swimwear but children being sexually abused. He said he only used it for a short period of time, I have no idea from the court case if that is true.

I find the whole area so murky. Can just about understand if you were abused and repressed it and years later stumbled into lighter kidporn stuff, then drawn into heavier stuff, it might somehow help you make sense of your own suffering before you recoiled and never did it again. But then how can we believe him. He's an actor after all.

I saw most of the programme (missed the beginning).

I agree with everyone re Pamela Stephenson. As for Chris Langham, well I had very mixed emotions about him.

Is it true Stephen Fry did one of these programmes and it has now been withdrawn?

If you've genuinely got problems, you sort them out in private, not on national television. The only thing he wants to rehabilitate is his career.