Dr. Alex Curmi
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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They want they have goals which they want to pursue.
And we can pursue those goals in healthier ways.
or we can pursue them in less healthy, more like domineering ways.
But nevertheless, we do want to pursue them.
And I think if you disown or suppress or repress your your healthy aggression, generally speaking, you're gonna have bad consequences.
And I really learned this when I worked
uh on a forensic ward during my psychiatric training I worked on a forensic ward with men who had committed very, very severe crimes.
And again, your fantasy about working in a place like that, what you might observe from watching movies, is you you walk onto a ward like that and you think you're gonna see really kind of quite
monstrous monstrously strong people, like very intimidating people.
And sometimes that was true, but mostly what I found was
When you really looked at these men and you observed how they interacted with themselves and and other people, is they were quite weak in a lot of ways.
They were profoundly weak in many ways.
And I I think in many cases it's actually profound weakness that leads to monstrous acts.
Profound discomfort with self, profound discomfort with one's relationship to others, profound discomfort with one's relationship with others.
relationship to the world.
These are the kinds of processes taken to an extreme level that can lead to extreme acts of violence, self-harm, things like that.
And this is again what you see in this film.
So Bear is weak in the sense he doesn't know how to assert himself romantically or even really assert himself in the world.
And even when Nikki gives him the perfect opportunity to express how he
If he is he he can't do it.
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