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Mad Men Season 7 Finale It's The Real Thing 4 Ways We'd See A Changed Don

MAD MEN Season 7 Finale
It’s The Real Thing
4 Ways We’d See A Changed Don

June 2, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

We’re left to wonder: what will become of Don Draper (Jon Hamm)? As Coca Cola’s hilltop jingle ends Mad Men Season 7 Finale, we have questions that don’t have answers. Has Don changed? Or, is he just the quintessential ad man – a man who escapes into his stories because they’re better than his personal …

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It’s The Real Thing
4 Ways We’d See A Changed Don
Mad Men Season 7 Finale Is Therapy For Don Esalen Style Enough?

MAD MEN Season 7 Finale
Therapy For Don Esalen Style
Is It Enough?

May 19, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Mad Men Season 7 Finale takes Don Draper (Jon Hamm) to the ultimate darkness of the soul, only to end up … Where? It seems a tragic cosmic joke to leave the Draper – Francis family the only ones with loose ends. Don might be back on his game, conjuring up the world’s greatest Coca-Cola …

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Therapy For Don Esalen Style
Is It Enough?
MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 3 About Those Gumdrops

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 3
About Those Gumdrops…

August 2, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

It could have been the perfect day in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 3. For the first time in his young life, Bobby has his mom along for a field trip and he couldn’t be more excited.  It’s all going so well, too. “Me and my mom are having a conversation,” Bobby tells his teacher …

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About Those Gumdrops…
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?

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