Breaking Down the Walls

Ethics and Morality

Fighting Greed Makes for Great Theatre and Film

Joanne Intrator M.D. on May 29, 2024

Personal Perspective: Corporations' legal protections tend to overwhelm the struggle for social justice. It takes a brave person, a hero, to go against the odds.

Ethics and Morality

Archetypal Psychopaths in Two Contemporary Films

Joanne Intrator M.D. on March 10, 2024

The film "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "A Zone of Interest" are stories of widespread murder fuelled by genocidal racism, and greed perpetrated by two types of psychopaths.

Ethics and Morality

Examining Courage in Terrence Malick’s Film 'A Hidden Life'

Joanne Intrator M.D. on July 17, 2023

Courage is a complex engagement of various aspects of personality that are not impulsive but rather thought through and examined.

Repression

The Unique Existence of Jeffrey Dahmer

Joanne Intrator M.D. on January 9, 2023

Jeffrey Dahmer's unique start in life left him with incapacitating abandonment so severe that he wished to create a zombie even at the cost of many young mens' lives.

Psychopathy

Patricia Highsmith: How Sublimation Creates Great Psychopathic Characters

Joanne Intrator M.D. on October 7, 2022

Beware, anyone, if you attempt to tarnish the self-image of a psychopath.

Psychopathy

The Psychopath as Hero

Joanne Intrator M.D. on September 11, 2022

Why we remain loyal to characters who tantalize our primitive brains.