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August 8-14, 2002
artpicks
His Psychology Today
With the long-delayed and eagerly awaited fourth season of The Sopranos around the corner, "The Sopranos Effect," the quiet storm that descends just before a new season of the hit TV series, is forming. Stores are deserted, restaurants quiet -- and for patients of distinguished psychoanalyst and author Glen Gabbard, desperate calls for help go unreturned. Why, Dr. Gabbard wondered, have the misadventures of a middle-aged thug won the largest audience in HBO history? What is it about the characters and their relationships that draws us in so completely? What can we learn about ourselves from going inside the heads of these outlaws from New Jersey?
In The Psychology of the Sopranos, Dr. Gabbard draws on his vast professional experience (and his near-obsessive preoccupation with Tony's two "families") to delve into the psychology of the characters, the show's depiction of therapy, and how The Sopranos dramatically showcases the psychological ambiguities and conflicts in our own lives.
Though his book was not endorsed by any entity involved in creating or producing the series, his tongue is planted only lightly in his cheek, while posing the questions so many of us have pondered on Monday mornings: Is Tony's therapy working? And how is it possible for him and his "families" to reconcile the mundane and the monstrous? His answers will surprise and delight loyal fans.
-- Paul Burress
Glen Gabbard will be appearing for a discussion and signing at the Borders on 1727, Walnut Street, Fri. Aug. 9 at 1pm, 215-568-7400 |
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