Characters On The Couch

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

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FRANCINE CHRISTOPHE’S CHOCOLATE
The Way A Baby Lives

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Listen. It is 1941 in Bergen-Belson concentration camp, a non-extermination camp where many prisoners died nonetheless of starvation. Francine Christophe is 8 years old, bearing a large Star of David (Juif) on her chest, imprisoned there with her mother, the barracks head. A strong and reassuring mother, keeping chocolate for the moment her daughter needed it …

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The Way A Baby Lives

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?