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Multiple Choice: Mickey 17 and the Disposable Self

Multiple Choice: Mickey 17 and the Disposable Self

Bong Joon‐ho’s clone‐comedy asks how many times a man can die before his meaning does.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Mauritanian: How Fear, Fatigue, and Authority Can Twist the Truth

The Mauritanian: How Fear, Fatigue, and Authority Can Twist the Truth

Exploring how isolation, fear, and exhaustion can trick the brain into believing falsehoods.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Beautiful, Messy Truth of a Remembered Heart

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Beautiful, Messy Truth of a Remembered Heart

An exploration of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the science that makes its fiction so resonant.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Pale Blue Eye: How Uniforms Unite and Erase Our Identities

The Pale Blue Eye: How Uniforms Unite and Erase Our Identities

Exploring Landor’s chilling insight—“it takes away a man’s will, fences him with rules, and deprives him of reason”—and the psychological power behind a uniform.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Alone on the Ice: Existential Isolation in The Terror

Alone on the Ice: Existential Isolation in The Terror

How AMC’s The Terror turns a doomed Arctic voyage into a haunting study of existential isolation, psychological horror, and the loneliness in extreme environments that pushes men to the edge.

Safa Rubaye, MD
Science Science
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The Weight of Words: The Psychological Dilemma Behind Agu’s "Beast" Identity

The Weight of Words: The Psychological Dilemma Behind Agu’s "Beast" Identity

How Forced Violence Clashes with an Intact Moral Compass in Beasts of No Nation

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control

Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control

Survival, Scarcity, and Learned Helplessness.How fighting for survival can keep us trapped psychologically

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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John Locke in LOST: The Psychology of Meaning and Destiny

John Locke in LOST: The Psychology of Meaning and Destiny

How a stranded man’s belief in the island mirrors our deepest need to find purpose

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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The Agentic Shift in Glass Onion: How Groupthink and Power Dress Up in Linen

The Agentic Shift in Glass Onion: How Groupthink and Power Dress Up in Linen

How Rian Johnson’s Social Satire Reveals the Dangerous Comfort of Following the “Genius” in the Room

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Nonnas (2025) – A Recipe for Meaning

Nonnas (2025) – A Recipe for Meaning

Meaning in a Grandmother’s Kitchen

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Severance: The Office as Cult

Severance: The Office as Cult

Explore how Apple TV’s Severance exposes workplace mind-control—and why Elon Musk’s X mirrors its tactics of intimidation, obedience, and cult-like loyalty.

Safa Rubaye, MD
PsychologyPsychology
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Hannibal Lecter: The Predator Wearing a Human Face

Hannibal Lecter: The Predator Wearing a Human Face

A Psychological Analysis of Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal (2001)

Safa Rubaye, MD