The Psychology of Tony Soprano
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 139 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. |
| 0:09.4 | And because you started watching it, I've now started rewatching it and I'm halfway |
| 0:14.5 | through the first season. To be clear I started rewatching it yeah and talking about |
| 0:19.0 | it and then now you're starting or you are yes I'm halfway through the first |
| 0:21.9 | season. Yeah you anyway. starting or you are you yes I'm halfway through the first season yeah |
| 0:23.8 | you anyway so let's get into the psychology of Tony Soprano specifically |
| 0:29.4 | because we could go into the whole show but I thought we just would sort of target Tony himself. |
| 0:35.0 | This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirkhana, I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:41.0 | My name is Umberto Kastagna and I'm a waste management consultant. So this obviously will spoil the entire six seasons so you know duly warned. Let's answer the first question right off the bat is Tony Soprano a psychopath? |
| 0:55.0 | 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 |
| 1:04.8 | social path or something along those lines |
| 1:07.1 | because he's clearly antisocial. |
| 1:09.4 | He clearly has low levels of empathy. |
| 1:11.7 | He's clearly comfortable with violence, but he shows genuine |
| 1:16.9 | care for some people in his life. He shows some level of ability to organize. He shows some level of like |
| 1:24.1 | like a long-term planning and things like this but with big holes you know right |
| 1:30.0 | you know right so let's go into the different items on the hair |
| 1:37.3 | psychopathy scale and and evaluate whether or not Tony Soprano the fictional |
| 1:42.4 | character has |
| 1:43.8 | psychopathy it seems that Melfi Dr. Melfi had diagnosed him with |
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