TV and Film
How Can a Ghost Story Help Us Heal from Trauma?
Excavating Unspoken ConversationsDirector Andrew Haigh’s haunting film All of Us Strangers lays bare the critical role of imagination in healing from traumatic loss. Read more
A Comedy about Breaking the Rules of Therapy
'Shrinking' is Sweet and Unrealistic—and That's OkayFor therapists, the TV comedy Shrinking is a low-impact escape that still contains echoes of the messy, wrenching work they do. Read more
Is Honesty the Best Policy?: A Review of 'You Hurt My Feelings'
A New Film on Flattery, White Lies, and Nondirective TherapyA wry exploration of how we handle challenges to our egos, even in therapy Read more
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
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
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
Americocentricity
Babel and Borat force us to look beyond our cultureA new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more
Fierce Creatures
How I nearly lost my innocence in La-La LandFrom the May/June 1997 issue I have just completed my first, and very likely my last, close encounter with the fierce business that has occupied my... Read more
Appasionata
Fables and fairy tales and fires in our soulsFrom the May/June 1994 issue NOW THAT THE EXPIRATION DATES HAVE PASSED ON OUR familiar fables and fairy tales about gender, it is time to create some new... Read more