Characters On The Couch

How a psychologist thinks about your favorite Film & TV characters.

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THE IRRATIONAL MAN
If I’d Been The Script Therapist
For Abe Lucas

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Woody Allen’s new film, The Irrational Man, gives us a troubled philosophy professor, Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), in an existential crisis. Although Abe is an expert in Existentialism, he can’t live its system of belief. He’d have to find meaning in his life and live it to its fullest, in spite of its limits (or …

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If I’d Been The Script Therapist
For Abe Lucas

BIRDMAN
The Voice In His Head
Truth Or Dare, Friend Or Foe?

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What do we talk about when we talk about someone losing his grip on reality? When it comes to that question, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s brilliant film, Birdman, is meaty stuff for a psychoanalyst like me. Riggan Thompson, former action hero, has-been, failed husband and father, is struggling to change his life – against a Voice …

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The Voice In His Head
Truth Or Dare, Friend Or Foe?