Dr. Anne Skomorowsky Writes in Wall Street Journal

Sarah Koenig’s podcast, “Serial”, is reported to average 2.3 million downloads per episode, has been downloaded 21 million times and is so addictive that it has even spawned podcasts whose purpose is just to rehash the most recent episode. But few fans are aware that as they pop in their earbuds every Thursday, they reenact whatSigmund Freud termed the “primal scene”. 
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