The Psychology of Tony Soprano (2019 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Umberto, do you like The Sopranos? |
| 0:03.3 | It's my favorite show of all time, and I've seen it front to back five times. |
| 0:09.0 | And because you started watching it, I've now started rewatching it, and I'm halfway through the first season. |
| 0:15.0 | To be clear, I started rewatching it and talking about it, and then now you're starting, or you are, you have started. I'm halfway through the first season. Yeah, you, anyway, so let's get |
| 0:25.8 | into the psychology of Tony Sopranos specifically. Because we could go into the whole show, |
| 0:31.8 | but I thought we just would sort of target Tony himself. Let's do it. This is the Psychology in Seattle |
| 0:36.9 | podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkonda. This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirkana. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:44.3 | My name is Umberto Cassignia, and I'm a waste management consultant. |
| 0:49.5 | So this obviously will spoil the entire six seasons, so, you know, duly warned. |
| 0:52.5 | Let's answer the first question right off the bat. |
| 0:55.0 | Is Tony Soprano a psychopath? I don't think so, not from all the discussions we've had about psychopathy. |
| 1:00.0 | By the way, this is why I do like the layman term sociopath or something along those lines, |
| 1:07.0 | because he's clearly antisocial, he clearly has low levels of empathy. He's clearly |
| 1:12.8 | comfortable with violence. But he shows genuine care for some people in his life. He shows |
| 1:19.7 | some level of ability to organize. He shows some level of like long-term planning and things like this, but with big holes, you know. |
| 1:30.6 | Right. |
| 1:30.9 | So let's go into the different items on the hair, psychopathy scale and evaluate whether |
| 1:40.9 | or not Tony Soprano, the fictional character, has psychopathy. It seems that Melfi, |
| 1:46.6 | Dr. Malfi, had diagnosed him with psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder, didn't it? |
| 1:51.6 | I don't remember. Did she actually say that? Well, I don't remember, but there was a whole |
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