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Articles by Joseph Burgo PhD:

• Final Post

• Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” — The Perils of Living in Fantasy

• ‘A Dangerous Method’: Misperceptions about Psychoanalysis

• Lady Gaga’s ‘Marry the Night’ Video and the Transformation of Shame

• Citizen Kane: Before We Called It Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’: Consolation for the Grieving Process

• Lady Gaga: ‘Bad Romance’ and What It Really Means to be Authentic

• ‘The Book of Mormon’: How to Practice Denial

• Mel Gibson in ‘The Beaver’: The Uses of Splitting

• Mia Wasikowska in ‘Jane Eyre’: Mental Illness as Moral Taint

• Announcing a New YouTube Channel

• “Cracks” with Eva Green: Psychological ‘Growth’ by Annexation

• Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones in “The Company Men”

• Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Music Video and Her Triumph Over Shame

• ‘Thor’ the Movie: A Father Teaches Humility

• Sarah Ferguson on ‘Oprah’: The Persistent Narcissistic Defense

• Going Nowhere in Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere”

• Robert Duval in ‘Get Low’: The Lasting Power of Guilt and Shame

• ‘Love and Other Drugs’: Narcissistic Love

• ‘Mildred Pierce’ (HBO): How to Make a Monster (Part Two)

• ‘Mildred Pierce’ (HBO): How to Make a Monster (Part One)

• Self-Abnegating Love in ‘The War of the Roses’

• ‘Limitless’: Addiction and Bipolar Disorder

• Notions of Justice in ‘True Grit’

• “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?” (Conclusion)

• “Why Doesn’t She Leave?” Part II – Battered Women in the Media

• “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?” Battered Women in the Media

• Charlie Sheen and the Allure of Manic Flight

• Unbearable Grief in Rabbit Hole (2010)

• A Realistic Portrait of Married Life: ‘The Kids Are All Right’ (2010)

• ‘The King’s Speech’ (2010) and the Psychotherapy Relationship

• Violence and Despair in ‘Winter’s Bone’ (2010)

• ‘The Social Network’ (2010) and the Power of Narcissistic Injury

• Enmeshed Family Dynamics in ‘The Fighter’ (2010)

• ‘The Fighter’ (2010) and Hereditary Narcissism

• ‘Avatar’ and Your Ideal Self

• The Transformative Power of Love in ‘Groundhog Day,’ Part II

• The Transformative Power of Love in ‘Groundhog Day,’ Part I

• “Black Swan” and the Recovery of the Shadow Self

• Harry Potter vs. The Lord of the Rings, Part III

• Harry Potter vs. The Lord of the Rings, Part II

• Harry Potter vs. The Lord of the Rings, Part I