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The Wife Why Some Women Sell Their Souls Loving A Narcisist

THE WIFE
Why Do Some Women
Sell Their Souls Loving A Narcissist?

August 26, 2018 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

*Spoiler Alert: Don’t Read Until You’ve Seen This Film* The Wife slowly and disturbingly reveals many things about Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) and her marriage to 1992 Nobel Prize Winner, Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce). She’s lived a lie, loving a narcissist. Allowed it. She’s become merely “the wife.” But, when Joe asks her, as she …

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Why Do Some Women
Sell Their Souls Loving A Narcissist?
Mother! Narcissism Yes! Mother Earth? ... I don't think so

MOTHER!
Narcissism? Yes, But, Mother Earth?
… I Don’t Think So.

September 28, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

The environment? Really? Narcissism is more like it. I’m sorry, Darren Aronofsky. Not in a million years would I think Jennifer Lawrence’s character in Mother! is supposed to be Mother Earth, if I hadn’t read an interview with you. But, even so, she isn’t exactly an earthy type of woman. Bountifully giving to everyone and then having …

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Narcissism? Yes, But, Mother Earth?
… I Don’t Think So.
Donald Trump The Good & The Ugly in his Political Incorrectness

DONALD TRUMP
The Good & The Ugly
In His Political Incorrectness

August 13, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

The Good: We see exactly who he is – since Donald Trump has only contempt for any kind of political correctness. Most of us are politically correct because it reflects what we believe. Yet, political correctness for political correctness’s sake could hide what someone really thinks. The Donald isn’t self-aware enough to hide. He’s also …

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The Good & The Ugly
In His Political Incorrectness

Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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