Episode 1: Four women for a neurosis

With perverse, narcissistic, hysterical, obsessive, phobic, manic, borderline, or autistic personalities, almost all characters in television series have some kind of mental disorder. Far from rendering viewers apathetic, our heroes’ conditions relate back to our own behaviors and flaws. Characters from television shows each take their turn on the couch of Emma Scali, psychotherapist, screenwriter, and actress. She diagnoses these heroes’ mental disorders and plumbs the dramatic depths of their symptoms.