THE END OF THE TOUR
A Self-Loathing Voice & Depression

By Dr. Sandra E. Cohen | August 10, 2015

The End of the Tour shows that a self-loathing voice can’t be allowed to take center stage. It makes you believe other people are thinking terrible thoughts about you too. You keep your distance. It’s a lonely place to be. David Foster Wallace’s short story, The Depressed Person, shows he knew that struggle well. So…

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THE END OF THE TOUR
Jason Segel Gets Inside
Foster Wallace’s Quiet Torment

By Dr. Sandra E. Cohen | August 4, 2015

Depression is outwardly a quiet torment. Inside it’s an almost constant implosion of self-deprecating self-doubt. That’s what we witness in director James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour – wrapped around David Foster Wallace like his famous bandana. Woven all-too-frequently into the substance of his conversation with David Lipsky: the ravages of a cruelly oppressive…

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