{"id":1727664,"date":"2022-11-07T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727664"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:36:18","slug":"what-fxs-the-patient-has-to-say-about-therapy-violence-and-the-masculinity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-fxs-the-patient-has-to-say-about-therapy-violence-and-the-masculinity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"What FX\u2019s \u2018The Patient\u2019 Has To Say About Therapy, Violence, And The Masculinity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-fxs-the-patient-has-to-say-about-therapy-violence-and-the-masculinity-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood has a tendency to glamorize psychotic serial killers. They are often portrayed as charismatic, intelligent men who happen to have a thirst for murder \u2014 the TV series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0773262\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dexter<\/a>\u201d is a good example of this. In reality, psycho-killers tend to be <a href=\"http:\/\/criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com\/crime\/intelligence-and-crime\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">miserable losers with below-average IQs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For all its flaws (and there are a few of them), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15574312\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Patient<\/a>\u201d starring Steve Carrell and Domhall Gleeson captures this truth quite well. Gleeson plays a disturbed young man Sam who kidnaps his therapist Dr. Strauss (played by Carrell) and holds him captive in the basement of his mother\u2019s house in the hopes that Strauss will help him overcome his habit of murdering random people.<\/p>\n<p>At first, this setup has the makings of a good psychological thriller. And in the first few episodes, this is true. However, this tension dissolves as the show\u2019s progression slows down to a snail\u2019s pace, filled with several flashback scenes developing themes and characters while doing nothing to advance the plot.<\/p>\n<p>For all that, however, the themes and characters featured in \u201cThe Patient\u201d are poignant and well done. Much of the series presents a biting critique of therapy, which proves ineffective in treating Sam\u2019s mental illness. Half of what Strauss practices amounts to mind games intended to cultivate empathy in a hurry. The other half is Strauss explaining the continual need for therapy and how Sam is improving \u2014 even when every possible sign demonstrates the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, both Sam and his mother have faith in Strauss though much of this faith is based in desperation, as neither of them wants to confront the truth about their situation. Sam clearly wants someone or something to blame, when it\u2019s his own stupidity and nihilism that causes him to murder, and his mother simply wants to absolve her own complicity by pushing her son off on the best therapist she knows.<\/p>\n<p>In similar fashion, Strauss begins as a confident psychiatrist but eventually comes to realize the shallowness of his profession and his limited perception of the world. His captivity causes him to revisit his assumptions that he previously never questioned.<\/p>\n<p>What eventually becomes apparent is that Sam doesn\u2019t need therapy, but an actual loving relationship. This is the other major theme of the show, as Sam blunders into violence because there\u2019s no reality check. He is estranged from his father and has little connection with his enabling mother. He has no friends, and his ex-wife divorced him years ago. Because there\u2019s no one around to tell him otherwise, he forms delusions about people and acts on those delusions.<\/p>\n<p>This alienation is a big problem with men in the show and the modern world in general. Growing up without a supportive father figure, men will develop antisocial tendencies and potentially become violent. Such is obviously the case with Sam, but also with Strauss\u2019s own son Ezra who breaks with his liberal Jewish parents to join a hyper-orthodox Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>This conflict between Strauss and his son brings up the third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their drama is the drama of today\u2019s men. Sam doesn\u2019t need therapy, but an actual loving relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1727668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}