TV and Film
Going Public with your Therapist
Reexamining a Compelling Film Through a New LensDo Sarah Brady’s allegations about Jonah Hill undermine the implicit message of Stutz, his documentary about therapy? Read more
Couples Therapy Goes Public
A New TV Series Pulls Back the CurtainA bold new TV series captures the raw reality of couples therapy—for both clients and therapists. Read more
Movie Magic
The Search for Transcendence in a Celluloid WorldOn the handful of channels that constituted the still-primitive medium that was television in the 1950s and early ’60s—before talk shows metastasized... Read more
When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more
Move Over, Meryl
Kate Winslet Ascends to Center StageWhat separates screen actors who remain enshrined in our memory from those who just momentarily catch our eye? Read more
Tell Me a Story
As Hollywood Goes Postmodern, Has Narrative Become Passé?If you're like me, you've noticed that movies don't make as much sense as they used to. Nevertheless, I suspect that there's still an audience somewhere out... Read more
More than Just Frivolity
Joel and Ethan Coen Give Us the Antidote to the Happy EndingThe Coen brothers specialize in redefining the rules of whatever movie genre they happen to be subverting. Read more
Darkness and Light
Evoking the Flip Sides of the Hollywood Dream MachineTwo hugely successful films, released on the same weekend this summer, revealed the flip side of the Hollywood experience. Read more
Getting It Right
In HBO's In Treatment, Art Imitates TherapyThe 43-episode HBO series In Treatment held up a mirror to our profession, immersing viewers in the ebb and flow of the psychotherapy process, and revealing... Read more
No Country for Old Men
Indiana Jones and the Temple of YouthPart of the magic of Hollywood movies is that the larger-than-life heroes and heroines up there on the screen don't age and wither and deteriorate like the... Read more