Michael and David have been seeing each other twice a week for 15 years. They're making progress.
David is a psychiatrist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Using real-world exercises, time-limited exposures to neutralize fear-inducing stimuli, David helps his patients lead 'normal' lives. Sure he's a workaholic, and arguably his controlling nature and secret drinking contributed to the break-up of his marriage. But, he's working on these things.
Michael is David's most challenging patient. He is wracked by a litany of anxieties centred around the most mundane things - cats, buses, strangers, bridges, girls. He's 30. No one knows Michael better than David. David is, in a sense, Michael's best friend. In another, more accurate sense, David is the medical professional who leads Michael through a series of carefully constructed therapeutic exercises every week. Michael believes David is his key to happiness. David believes Michael is his key to a lucrative book deal.
This is the story of an unconventional friendship.
Created by Bob Martin and based on the neuroses of Matt Watts, MICHAEL TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS is produced by Niv Fichman and Sari Friedland and executive produced by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The series, which stars Bob Martin and Matt Watts, is directed by Don McKellar, Alison MacLean and Patricia Rozema and written by Bob Martin, Matt Watts, Susan Coyne, Mark McKinney and Katie Ford. Also starring in the series are Jennifer Irwin, Pablo Silviera, Martha Burns and Tommie-Amber Pirie
David is a psychiatrist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Using real-world exercises, time-limited exposures to neutralize fear-inducing stimuli, David helps his patients lead 'normal' lives. Sure he's a workaholic, and arguably his controlling nature and secret drinking contributed to the break-up of his marriage. But, he's working on these things.
Michael is David's most challenging patient. He is wracked by a litany of anxieties centred around the most mundane things - cats, buses, strangers, bridges, girls. He's 30. No one knows Michael better than David. David is, in a sense, Michael's best friend. In another, more accurate sense, David is the medical professional who leads Michael through a series of carefully constructed therapeutic exercises every week. Michael believes David is his key to happiness. David believes Michael is his key to a lucrative book deal.
This is the story of an unconventional friendship.
Created by Bob Martin and based on the neuroses of Matt Watts, MICHAEL TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS is produced by Niv Fichman and Sari Friedland and executive produced by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The series, which stars Bob Martin and Matt Watts, is directed by Don McKellar, Alison MacLean and Patricia Rozema and written by Bob Martin, Matt Watts, Susan Coyne, Mark McKinney and Katie Ford. Also starring in the series are Jennifer Irwin, Pablo Silviera, Martha Burns and Tommie-Amber Pirie
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