American Psycho: Malignant narcissism on the screen.

Presents an interpretation of American Psycho (1990). The film is described as a screen illustration of malignant narcissism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ethical notes on disrupted frames and violated boundaries.

Despite the fact that the analyst's work unfolds at the crossroad of a prevalent moral code, psychoanalysis has neglected to address ethical or philosophical arguments. Such arguments have significant technical implications for the discipline in regard to "dos" and "don'ts." Different approaches to moral dilemmas are considered in relation to pertinent aspects of the psychoanalytic frame and the psychoanalytic process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Desire is a bed of roses.

Comments on the 1999 film American Beauty by director Sam Mendes. The author discusses how the film displays a cynical and hypercritical view of a culture fascinated with images and their correlates—materialism and consumerism. A psychoanalytic reading of American Beauty may reveal a subtext of distressed masculine identity and desire. In attempting to retrieve a previously held status, several male characters in the film are determined to fight for the right to be male and regain the power they once held at home or in the community at large. American Beauty depicts the rebellion of the dethroned American male against the emptiness of an antiseptic, aspiritual life, controlled by money and greed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)