The Psychology of Tony Soprano (2019 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 139 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So umberto do you like the sopranos? It's my favorite show of all time and I've seen it |
| 0:07.1 | front to back five times and because you started watching it I've now started rewatching it |
| 0:13.8 | and I'm halfway through the first season. To be clear I started rewatching it and talking about |
| 0:18.9 | it and then now you're starting or you are yes I'm halfway through the first season. Yeah anyway |
| 0:24.9 | so let's get into the psychology of Tony soprano specifically because we could go into the whole |
| 0:31.5 | show but I thought we just would sort of target Tony himself. Do it. This is the psychology and |
| 0:36.7 | Seattle podcast. I'm your host Dr. Kirkhan, I'm a therapist and a professor. My name is Umberto |
| 0:42.0 | Kassanya and I'm a waste management consultant. So this obviously will spoil the entire six seasons |
| 0:48.0 | so you know duly warned. Let's answer the first question right off the bat is Tony soprano a |
| 0:54.1 | psychopath? I don't think so not from all the discussions we've had about psychopathy. By the way |
| 1:01.1 | this is why I do like the the layman term uh social path or something along those lines because |
| 1:07.5 | he's clearly anti social. He clearly has low levels of empathy. He's clearly comfortable with |
| 1:14.0 | violence but he shows uh genuine care for some some people in his life. He shows some level of |
| 1:20.9 | ability to organize. He just shows some level of of like um I think a lot of long term planning |
| 1:27.2 | and things like that but with big holes you know. Right so let's um go into the different items on |
| 1:35.5 | the hair uh psychopathy scale and evaluate whether or not Tony soprano the fictional character |
| 1:43.6 | has psychopathy. It seems that Melfi Dr. Melfi had diagnosed him with psychopathy or anti social |
| 1:50.0 | personality disorder, didn't it? I don't remember. I think did she actually say that? Well I don't |
| 1:54.9 | remember but there there was a whole set there's a whole story arc in one of the seasons where |
| 2:00.8 | when she would consult with other clinicians and they're like you know that psychopaths can't be |
| 2:05.5 | treating. Right. You remember that? Oh yeah I do remember that yes. And they they manipulate their |
| 2:12.4 | psychiatrists and all this kind of stuff. So it seemed to me that Dr. Melfi had thought he had |
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