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Mad Men Season 7 Episode 5 No More Good Girl

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 5
No More Good Girl…?

August 2, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Betty Draper Francis (January Jones) finally takes a stand in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 5 – and weren’t we all cheering? It’s 1969, after all, and the Women’s Movement is in full swing. Betty’s finally sick and tired of living under society’s expectations (not to mention her mother’s) about just what kind of woman …

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No More Good Girl…?
Mad Men Season 7 The Women Revolution or Evolution?

MAD MEN Season 7: The Women
Revolution or Evolution?

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Bob Dylan’s song, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” defined the 60’s and the Cultural Revolution taking place. These times were especially momentous for women in their roles in the workplace and as wives. Enter the world of Mad Men  – and we are in the culture that fueled the fires for Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. The Women’s …

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Revolution or Evolution?
Mad Men Season 7 Joan Peggy Megan and Don in 1969

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 1
Where Are Joan, Peggy, Megan, and Don in 1969?

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Could Sterling, Cooper, and Partners of Mad Men fame be an even worse environment for – and especially the women – as we enter Mad Men Season 7 in 1969? Each of the main characters seems poised for the struggle of their lives – as Mad Men’s psychologically-minded creator Matthew Weiner hints: “This season is …

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Where Are Joan, Peggy, Megan, and Don in 1969?
Mad Men Season 7 Episode 2 Hope for Love for Don and Sally

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 2
Is There Hope for Don and Sally?

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Is there hope for love in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 2? Maybe between Don (Jon Hamm) and Sally (Kiernan Shipka).  But, first of all, Don needs to stop lying – and, finally, in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 2, he’s beginning to come clean. You see, Don’s lies catch up to him when Sally …

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Is There Hope for Don and Sally?
Mad Men Preview Season 7 Don Draper's Shame & His Lies

MAD MEN Season 7 Preview
Don Draper’s Shame
The Toll of Living a Lie

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) has been running from his past through the last six seasons of Mad Men. At least, he’s tried his best – amidst flashbacks and his brother’s return. To me as a psychoanalyst, there’s no doubt he’s a traumatized man. A man using various methods, mostly affairs, and alcohol, to convince himself it’s …

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Don Draper’s Shame
The Toll of Living a Lie
12 years a slave what makes some people crueler?

12 YEARS A SLAVE
What Makes Some People Crueler?

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Some people need someone to hate. In Jean-Paul Sartre’s essay, “Anti-Semite and Jew,” he says: “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.” I don’t think it’s a far leap to put the history of Blacks in America in the same category. The important question is why? Why does this need to …

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What Makes Some People Crueler?
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