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Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Dec 4, 2025

White Christmas: The Mind Without Witness

Black Mirror’s “White Christmas” (S2E4) explores the psychological collapse that follows extreme isolation, revealing how the social brain disintegrates without feedback or empathy.

White Christmas: The Mind Without Witness
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Nov 27, 2025

The Waldo Effect: Why We Cheer the Bully Who Shames the Powerful

Black Mirror’s “The Waldo Moment” (S2E3) reveals how ridicule became political language—why shamelessness feels like honesty and shaming turned into control.

The Waldo Effect: Why We Cheer the Bully Who Shames the Powerful
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Nov 20, 2025

The Psychology of Ritualized Guilt and Collective Punishment

Black Mirrors's “White Bear” (S2E2) reveals how societies turn guilt into ritual—transforming punishment into performance and empathy into entertainment.

The Psychology of Ritualized Guilt and Collective Punishment
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Nov 13, 2025

Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”: Denial, Bargaining, and the Psychology of Unfinished Grief

In S2E1 of Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back,” Martha becomes trapped in denial and bargaining—using technology to avoid loss, revealing the psychological cost of not accepting death.

Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”: Denial, Bargaining, and the Psychology of Unfinished Grief
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Oct 16, 2025

Netflix’s Straw: How Stress and Scarcity Turn a Bad Day into a Thriller

Tyler Perry’s Straw follows a single mother’s day from crisis to catastrophe, unpacking the science of stress, the psychology of scarcity, and the systems that push people to the brink.

Netflix’s Straw: How Stress and Scarcity Turn a Bad Day into a Thriller
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Oct 9, 2025

Game Theory and Teamwork in 21: How MIT Students Beat Vegas—Until Trust Busted the Bank

How a crew of MIT card-counters turned probability into profit—and why their biggest gamble was trusting each other.

Game Theory and Teamwork in 21: How MIT Students Beat Vegas—Until Trust Busted the Bank
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Sep 11, 2025

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.

Multiple Choice: Mickey 17 and the Disposable Self
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Sep 4, 2025

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

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

The Mauritanian: How Fear, Fatigue, and Authority Can Twist the Truth
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Aug 28, 2025

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.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Beautiful, Messy Truth of a Remembered Heart
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Aug 21, 2025

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.

The Pale Blue Eye: How Uniforms Unite and Erase Our Identities
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Aug 7, 2025

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.

Alone on the Ice: Existential Isolation in The Terror
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Jul 31, 2025

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

The Weight of Words: The Psychological Dilemma Behind Agu’s "Beast" Identity
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Jun 26, 2025

Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control

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

Snowpiercer and the Psychology of Control
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Jun 19, 2025

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

John Locke in LOST: The Psychology of Meaning and Destiny
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Jun 12, 2025

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

The Agentic Shift in Glass Onion: How Groupthink and Power Dress Up in Linen
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
May 29, 2025

Nonnas (2025) – A Recipe for Meaning

Meaning in a Grandmother’s Kitchen

Nonnas (2025) – A Recipe for Meaning
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
May 22, 2025

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.

Severance: The Office as Cult
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
May 8, 2025

Hannibal Lecter: The Predator Wearing a Human Face

A Psychological Analysis of Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal (2001)

Hannibal Lecter: The Predator Wearing a Human Face
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
May 1, 2025

Real Pain: Transgenerational Trauma Through Historical Echoes

Exploring the Inherited Scars of Trauma: 'A Real Pain' and Its Reflection of Holocaust Legacy

Real Pain: Transgenerational Trauma Through Historical Echoes
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Apr 17, 2025

The Delusion Paradox: Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, Dave, and the Fragility of Reality in Lost

What If Your Mind Told You That Reality Wasn’t Real?

The Delusion Paradox: Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, Dave, and the Fragility of Reality in Lost
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Apr 3, 2025

Dormant Hope and the Catalyst of Change in Sherlock Holmes: The Mare of Night

How Dormant Hope Lies Within Despair, Waiting for an External Spark to Awaken Change

Dormant Hope and the Catalyst of Change in Sherlock Holmes: The Mare of Night
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Mar 13, 2025

The Psychological Cost of Activism Through Gorillas in the Mist

When Passion Consumes: Activism Burnout and the Mental Toll of Fighting for a Cause

The Psychological Cost of Activism Through Gorillas in the Mist
Safa Rubaye, MD
Safa Rubaye, MD
Feb 13, 2025

The Psychological Impact of Nasubi’s Experiment: Survival, Isolation, and Identity

What happens when a person is cut off from everything they know? Nasubi’s 15-month ordeal reveals how isolation reshapes the mind and raises questions about the core of human identity.

The Psychological Impact of Nasubi’s Experiment: Survival, Isolation, and Identity

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